u/venus_asmr

Pentax KS2, 18-135

nearly month ago i posted about camera issues on surface go 1. well, got it fixed - some of this was from deepseek AI but i was out of ideas. use at your own risk

use ultramarine (i used kde, xfce also works, the other 2 likely fine) surface image

install it, your front camera should work in qcam, probably not firefox. update. THIS WILL BREAK CAMERA

reboot

hammer shift for grub and get the 6.18 booting up

rpm -qa | grep -i kernel | grep 6.19

sudo dnf remove kernel-surface-6.19.8-3.surface.fc42.x86_64 kernel-surface-core-6.19.8-3.surface.fc42.x86_64 kernel-surface-modules-6.19.8-3.surface.fc42.x86_64 kernel-surface-modules-core-6.19.8-3.surface.fc42.x86_64 kernel-surface-modules-extra-6.19.8-3.surface.fc42.x86_64 kernel-surface-devel-6.19.8-3.surface.fc42.x86_64 kernel-surface-devel-matched-6.19.8-3.surface.fc42.x86_64 kernel-surface-default-watchdog-6.19.8-3.surface.fc42.x86_64 (CHECK THESE ARE CORRECT BEFORE RUNNING)

sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

sudo grub2-set-default 'Ultramarine Linux (6.18.7-1.surface.fc43.x86_64)'

alias update='sudo dnf update --exclude=kernel-surface-*' (YOU WILL NOW TYPE UPDATE TO UPDATE, IF A NEW FIXED ONE IS RELEASED RUN NORMAL DNF COMMAND AND IT SHOULD GRAB THE NEW ONE)

source ~/.bashrc

(if terminal borked)

nano ~/.zshrc

add PS1='\u@\h \w \$ '

reboot

YOU SHOULD BE SOUND NOW WORKING FRONT CAMERA WILL LOOK OFFISH

I just got a surface go 1 for a steal, looks like just what i need and so far so good except the camera.

currently on: zorin os 18.1, surface kernel, added acpi_enforce_resources=lax" to grub.

tried: garuda and cachy, rather buggy, laggy experience. ultramarine: camera (front, not back but dont need that) worked on live ISO amazingly and everything else. this on default kernel. updated and got the newest kernel, camera broken. installed surface kernel. camera broken and touchpad issues appeared. tried to roll back to 6.18 kernel. still broken. so i tried zorin. in general, love it, mostly brilliant performance. but no camera no matter what steps i take

and last things to try before resorting to living without camera?

Much love to the devs of e/os, which i was using before, but I cannot deal with AOSP anymore. Every few week its 'maybe you wont be able to install APKs' 'how about a QR code to log in?' etc., this is a difficult and painful road, and im spiteful and stupid enough to take it

Sigma 135-400 f4.5-5.6 and Pentax KS2. They might be terrible, its my first proper tele lens but thought I'd share. I really like the bokeh off this though