just wanted to reach out to those of you using a USB-C dongle and a recent kernel (6.12 and later ideally), to ask if you are also facing the issue I described here:
I can reproduce this on my FW16 (7840 without dGPU), also running the latest Tumbleweed. Kernel is 6.12.9-1-default
Once I unplug power from the Dell WD19DCS, the system tries to switch to the internal display only, but freezes. Upon replugging, it pulls 80W from the docking station but remains frozen. Haven’t tested accessing with SSH, should I?
It also happens when I just disconnect the USB connection at the notebook. This is new, must have been introduced sometime in the last week or two.
Now running a zypper dup, new kernel version 6.12.10 incoming…
Right, would also freeze with that one. Well, not completely, but the mouse cursor would move a little every couple seconds. SSH into the machine still works.
Man, these are the situations where I wished I jumped on the immutable train…I’d checkout a previous system image/commit, rebasing of overlays would be done transparently and I wouldn’t need to worry about losing any of the system packages I might have installed meanwhile.
Snapper failed me this time (but that’s on me, as I don’t have enough history to revert).