On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:16:13 +0100, Donald Leslie wrote:
I do not know if this where I should start.
I have used SuSE since the days of the Atlanta Linux Showcase. There developer ( He was referred to as the IDE guy) got SuSE to work on my laptop. He spent some time poking at it. He said go to the booth and buy a copy and I will have it working for the next release. Which he did.
I have been running SuSE ever since, mostly on HP Business laptops. It has always worked fine until now. I have a HP 855 G7 which has an AMD cpu and a AMD gpu. I am running Leap 15.2 which still has a 5.3. ... kernel. I believe this also true for 15.3 .
FYI, 5.3 on Leap 15.3 kernel isn't really 5.3. Many driver components got tons of backports, and the graphics stack is equivalent with 5.9 and later kernel. If the AMDGPU graphics doesn't work Leap 15.3 kernel, let us know. The touchpad is a slightly different; I recently backported a few relevant things, but it might miss something else, as the devices like touchpad is often tied with pinctrl, I2C, GPIO and other lower layers in a complex manner nowadays. In anyway, Leap 15.3 should have received most of patches that are needed to run on the modern laptops. If something missing, just tell us, at best on Bugzilla. thanks, Takashi