Exciting! Thank you so much for your help mate, it’s very much appreciated.

I did try kernel 6.6 without either patch before installing the new one, and I can confirm that the issue was still present on that version.

With the new patch though (after adding a comma to the end of each .ident string), everything is working as expected.

Either way, this did it! Thank you so much!

I believe that the issue might be that the amdgpu driver is too new, judging by this string of errors:

Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: (II) AMDGPU(0): [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: (EE) AMDGPU(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:05:00.0: Invalid argument
Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: (II) AMDGPU(1): [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: (EE) AMDGPU(1): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:05:00.0: Invalid argument
Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: (II) UnloadModule: "amdgpu"
Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: (II) UnloadModule: "amdgpu"
Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: (EE)
Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: Fatal server error:
Dec 20 21:30:54 minion xserver-wrapper[1080]: (EE) no screens found(EE)

So if this doesn’t end up working, I’ll definitely look into the pinning thing, because 5.10 seems like my best shot.

Figured I’d do the pre-setup before I went to bed, so I’ve run the grep command and put the board_name from that output such that the patch now reads thus:

  boot.kernelPatches = [{
      name = "acpi quirk";
      patch = pkgs.writeText "acpi.patch" '' 
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/resource.c b/drivers/acpi/resource.c 
index 297a88587031..655332f3a5da 100644 
--- a/drivers/acpi/resource.c 
+++ b/drivers/acpi/resource.c 
@@ -524,6 +524,12 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id pcspecialist_laptop[] = {
                        DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "GM6BG0Q"), 
                }, 
        }, 
+       { 
+               /* Infinity E15-5A165-BM */ 
+               .matches = { 
+                       DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "GM5RG1E0009COM"), 
+               }, 
+       }, 
        { } 
 }; 
'';
  }];

I’ll report back with the results when I’m able.

The background notifications will be nice! I’m using ntfy for (among other things) notifications for a housemate that isn’t as tech-savvy, so it’ll be nice to get them smart home notifications that they don’t have to keep a tab open for (if I understand this correctly).

I went to Mastodon first, about the same time Twitter officially went into Musk’s ownership. I’ve only looked at Twitter to find fellow refugees from the friends I was following there, but quickly gave up - some people moved over and I was able to follow them, but most went elsewhere from Twitter (mostly Cohost or Itaku) or just remained on Twitter because “that’s where the audience is”. But I’ve been happy on the fediverse - I’ve found that my corner of it has been a lot less about ‘drama’ and more about sharing personal experiences or news. It’s nice!

This whole Reddit thing has been my first look at the ‘threadiverse’ as some have called it. I’m looking at kbin specifically if I end up setting up an instance for my community, but I’m all in on this decentralised social media now, and I really want it to win out.