kernel_btusb VS howdy

The mediatek 7922 bluetooth chip seems to have poor support in linux. I found a patch that seems to work for the G15 (2022) which uses the same chip running Fedora at this link: https://github.com/mpsOxygen/kernel_btusb

Pop_OS kernel probably doesn't have the driver fro the bluetooth chip. You might be able to use this https://github.com/mpsOxygen/kernel_btusb, or install a newer kernel, I think support was added in 5.19

did work after applying this fix

Bluetooth not working but this fixes it. Has to be done after every kernel upgradehttps://github.com/mpsOxygen/kernel_btusb

you can even use facial recognition with IR webcam

Source

I just bought a go 2 (not laptop go) this weekend and installed fedora 37 on it. Almost everything worked without the surface kernel except the camera requires v4l2loopback kernel drivers to create a gstreamer device for apps that don’t support libcamera. There were only old versions available in copr but no surface kernel headers available so I couldn’t build the kernel modules. I switched to ubuntu 22.10 and got similar hardware support but more available packages. I’m still trying to figure out how to get the IR sensors to work so I can use howdy for login/sudo. https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy

First, you'll need to install Howdy.

I've tried using Howdy, but that doesn't seem to work. It's probably because of this issue

Just like with digicams, it is not just about the sensor, but also the image processing itself. Should we omit the IR sensor to replace it with a better firmware-based noise-reduction system? But what about "Howdy" / "Hello" users, if we go this route?