Linux CRU 0.2.0 - custom + stretched resolutions on Wayland (KWin, sway, Hyprland) and X11

https://preview.redd.it/lvehscns3jih1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=bb9cca7b6fef3586e9b4cca28828efe95912c643

Two years ago I made this as an X11 NVidia-only custom resolution tool. Finally did a proper rewrite. It now works on Wayland (KDE, GNOME, sway, Hyprland) and on AMD/Intel/NVIDIA, and it does stretched resolutions - the 4:3-stretched thing CS2/Valorant players use to widen models - on KDE Wayland, which the compositor normally refuses to do on external monitors.

Also fixed the AppImage, which turned out to be missing tkinter and wouldn't launch on half of you. Sorry about that.

Let me know of any bugs you find!

Repo https://github.com/PhialsBasement/linux-cru
Release https://github.com/PhialsBasement/linux-cru/releases/tag/v0.2.0

AI Disclosure: Used Claude heavily during development, all the decisions and design details taken here are mine however.

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I never thought I’d love Linux so much

I was always a windows person. It was simple, seemed safe, and I grew up on it, so it was just what I thought I’d always use.

Recently I’ve been really stuck on not upgrading to windows 11 (it sucks imo) and just stuck on windows 10, watching my computer slowly eat itself away to problems I didn’t even think were possible. Then once the steam deck came out, I knew I had to get it.

Portable computer with steam games I already play? Sign me up bro.. but after a few months of just gaming, and a little bit of messing around with desktop mode, I decided to really get into it and see what all the Linux fuss was about. I’ve heard a lot of people really prefer it over windows, and I wasn’t sure why, but man once I got into it I couldn’t stop.

I know it’s only a steam deck so the specs are not anything too crazy, but it feels so much better than my upgraded pc. Windows bogs it down so much a weaker pc feels better. And I mean, SO much better. It feels like when I first started getting into computers as a kid, everything was so fast and new to me.

It wasn’t too different from windows, besides being heavily unbloated, giving me a lot more control over what I do, and the discover software center on my gosh. I don’t know why everything isn’t based on Linux at this point, it’s SO much better with the app quality. (Well, I do know why but everyone should switch to Linux!) And the community seems so much more organized and passionate about this OS, it makes me feel cozy almost. I don’t think I can ever go back to windows again.

TL;DR, windows slow, little control, makes me sad. Linux fast with more control, makes me happy.

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Xbox PC and Game Pass games are being worked on for Linux - VideoCardz.com
https://videocardz.com/newz/xbox-pc-and-game-pass-games-are-being-worked-on-for-linux

https://redd.it/1vkvum3
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Floorplan software?

I used Sketchup in Windows to create floorplans for various projects - is there an equivalent for Linux? Preferably free open source.

I have FreeCad but it's a bit complex to learn and use, would prefer something simpler.

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wl-relabel: A Crate to Edit Window Labels in Linux
https://redd.it/1vlbjn6
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NotesQR CLI on Linux: P2P file send/recv over WebRTC (same as the web app, no cloud disk)
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OpenSSH 10.5 released, AI Welcome

>Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to have security impact when considered in the context of a realistic threat model, we very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes.

>We have seen a number of cases where a security bug identified by AI tools is subsequently independently discovered by a different researcher. This suggests that adversaries who do not report bugs to OSS projects are likely to be able to discover these bugs too. Given this, the OpenSSH team will, for now, be making more frequent releases to get bugfixes into users' hands more quickly rather than batching them until the next planned release.

Like most open source projects, AI-based fixes are coming in fast:

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.5

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/openai-launches-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux/

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GNOME Designers Lay Out Some Of Their GNOME Shell Dreams
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Plans-2026

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We are regressing as a species.
https://redd.it/1vm0ck3
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Kernel 7.1.8 fixes AMD artifacting issue.

I just wanted to give a headsup about the issue with amd graphics cards flickering and having weird colorful artifacts. No, your GPU is not dying. It was kernel versions 7.1.6 and 7.1.7.

This issue is fixed in 7.1.8. It released in Arch a few hours ago, and I think in Fedora as well.

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Minor Optimization Coming For AMD Athlon XP Era Systems Running Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-WMB-SSE-Optimization

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Updated GPG key for signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases – Mozilla Security Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/08/10/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-and-thunderbird-releases/

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Whats going on with Snapdragon X Elite Linux support?!
https://redd.it/1vm99q3
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Linux Finally Seeing Patches For Better Hybrid Graphics On 2018~2019 Era MacBook Pros
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2026-Patches-For-2018-MBP

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CVE-2026-53360: KVM SEV-SNP guest-to-host heap OOB and analysis of the upstream fix
https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/08/i-found-a-kvm-guest-to-host-heap-corruption-bug-and-someone-else-got-there-first/

https://redd.it/1vmcn4a
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Session Save/Restore in GNOME | Adrian Vovk @ GUADEC 2026
https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/avFXnuF1naKbwpZ7TB6pmp

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Want to try Stacking WM, but gnome and kde are too fancy

Hey all I've been using Linux for about a year and a half now and have really been loving it (I'm on void btw).

I have always used Tiling WMs since the beginning, I used Hyprland for a bit, ended up hating it for both the Dev's shadiness but also the absolute incredulous amount of churn. So I switched to Sway, from the very beginning I've only ever used Wayland.

I'm not at a place where I'm content but I am curious about swapping to a stacking WM. I was going to go KDE but, and I'm probably in the minority, I don't really like Kwin, and I actually find KDE to look kinda ugly.

I've been drawn to XFCE which I have installed but not tested yet. It's aesthetic is much more my vibe and classic with all the theming available.

Does Wayland have any compositors in this ball park of stable and consistent but not the usual?

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LACT Brings More NVIDIA OC Controls and GPU Sensors to Linux
https://www.techpowerup.com/351566/lact-brings-more-nvidia-oc-controls-and-gpu-sensors-to-linux

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What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04
https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/13/what-a-real-lts-looks-like-kubuntu-26-04/

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Lumia 1520 Linux update: the audio hardware is finally talking!

Hey everyone,

It's been a minute since I posted an update on the Lumia 1520 mainline Linux project ....and this one ended up being a pretty big step forward.

Last time I posted, the phone was already at a pretty solid baseline... Linux was cold booting reliably, display/touch/buttons were working, USB networking + SSH were stable, suspend/resume was working, battery telemetry and backlight control were in place, etc.

Since then I've been digging into one of the bigger missing pieces: audio....a fucking nightmare lol

At first, I thought it might hit the same wall as WiFi. The Lumia's audio stack uses Qualcomm's ADSP co-processor, and I wasn't sure whether the Windows Phone TrustZone would even allow it to boot.

Turns out it does....

The ADSP now boots successfully, APR communication with it works, and I was able to bring up MSM8974's ADSP managed SLIMbus transport. That led to the actual codec on the phone. And at this point I've confirmed from the hardware itself that the Lumia 1520 uses a Qualcomm WCD9320 / Taiko codec.

Not just inferred from old Qualcomm sources either...Linux is physically enumerating it over SLIMbus and reading its own identification registers back as major ID "0x0102".

The codec actually exposes two separate SLIMbus functions:

PGD - control/register access

IFD - the audio port/channel interface

Both now enumerate independently and get their own logical addresses. From there I built out proper regmap access, power/reset handling, fresh bring-up, non-destructive late adoption, and the beginnings of the codec interrupt support.

The interesting part was the digital core. A large section of the codec's register map kept returning zero, which initially sent me down a rabbit hole looking for the external 9.6 MHz MCLK. I dumped the Lumia's ACPI tables, RPM clocks, all 36 PM8941 GPIOs and all 8 MPPs trying to find where Nokia routed it. That investigation was...."useful", but the clock wasn't actually the blocker.

The real issue was that Linux had never executed Qualcomm's original "wcd9xxx_bring_up()" sequence. Every audio milestone before this had been read only, so the missing initialization stayed hidden.

Once I implemented the downstream bring-up sequence and switched the codec onto its internal RC oscillator, the result was immediate:

87/87 previously inaccessible sentinel registers became readable.

71 matched Qualcomm's documented defaults exactly, and the remaining 16 fall into three consistent register families that appear to be revision-specific differences.

So the chain now looks like:

Linux → ADSP → QRTR/QMI → BAM → SLIMbus NGD → WCD9320 PGD/IFD → regmap → codec core release → internal RCO → digital core accessible

I also mapped the codec's interrupt parent to Lumia TLMM GPIO 72 and validated it electrically idle across direct sampling and suspend/resume testing. I haven't claimed full IRQ support yet because I haven't deliberately generated and cleared a real codec interrupt source.

And just to be clear: there is still no audible sound output yet. I'm not calling audio "working" until PCM data actually reaches an output.

What this does mean is that most of the unknown hardware/transport side of Lumia audio is now gone. What's left is the actual codec/ASoC implementation work: permanent automatic core initialization, nested IRQ handling, DAIs and SLIMbus port configuration, the MSM8974/Lumia machine driver, and then finally a fixed playback route to get the first test tone out of the phone.

I'm deliberately finishing the Lumia's hardware enablement before I start layering my RegenX OS work onto it. I'd rather have a known-good hardware platform first than end up debugging kernel/driver problems and OS layer problems at the same time.

Wi-Fi/BT is still the major documented blocker, charging still needs more work, and modem/camera remain further out.... but audio has gone from "this may require an entirely missing upstream stack" to actual driver development on hardware that is responding exactly where it