{"id":247267,"date":"2026-05-16T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/linux-7-1-rc4-seeing-the-latest-laptop-quirks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:15:13","slug":"linux-7-1-rc4-seeing-the-latest-laptop-quirks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/linux-7-1-rc4-seeing-the-latest-laptop-quirks\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.1-rc4 Seeing The Latest Laptop Quirks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.1-rc4-x86-Drivers\">Linux 7.1-rc4 Seeing The Latest Laptop Quirks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.1-rc4-x86-Drivers\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.1-rc4-x86-Drivers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-16 06:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc4 kernel test release due out on Sunday, a new round of x86 platform driver fixes were submitted for the week.<\/p>\n<p>As quite common for the &#8220;fixes&#8221; pull requests from the platform-drivers-x86 tree, a lot of the work revolves around handling device quirks for different laptops.\n<\/p>\n<p>This week there is a keyboard fix for the ASUS Zenbook Duo UX8407AA so that the keyboard is properly handled under Linux for this interesting laptop model.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=asus_zen_duo_med\" alt=\"ASUS Zenbook Duo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This dual screen laptop ships with Windows 11 by default but now if you happen to be using this $2499+ laptop, its keyboard will now be playing nicely with Linux 7.1-rc4+.<\/p>\n<p>The HP WMI kernel driver meanwhile added support for the Victus 16-r0xxx (8BC2) laptop models. With that the HP 8BC2 laptop now enjoys more hardware controls like ACPI platform profiles, hardware monitoring, and other features under Linux.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung Galaxy Book platform driver with Friday&#8217;s pull request now handles the keyboard backlight, microphone mute button, and web camera block hotkeys.\n<\/p>\n<p>More details on these x86 platform driver fixes for the week can be found via this pull that was merged to mainline on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.1-rc4-x86-Drivers\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux 7.1-rc4 Seeing The Latest Laptop Quirks https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.1-rc4-x86-Drivers Publish Date: 2026-05-16 06:42:00 Source Domain: www.phoronix.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=asus_zen_duo","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-247267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247269,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247267\/revisions\/247269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}