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Librem 11 off-the-rails adventures
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"Tinkering" with the Librem 11 is kinda interesting but also frustrating at the same time lol.
You can do stuff with it but it gets weird rather quickly.
All begun with me yeeting off Endeavour and trying out PureOS again (based on debian). It worked okay and even better than Endeavour for some tasks. Webex-Meetings were much better funnily enough. .
But I just cannot stand debian and its "stable" nature which can be just as buggy but you get the bugs later.
So I wanted something arch-based again...
Got a USB flashed Endeavour on it and... Pureboot actually decided to boot from the stick which is not a given. But EndeavourOS would not boot for me (certainly a trend...) It would just stay black after displaying the boot-messages. Really weird. Grabbed the stick flashed Manjaro on it. .
Pureboot (Purism own modified version of coreboot) Sees the stick but refuses to boot from it. Just yelled at me it could not find something bootable. Booting stuff from usb under Pureboot was very hit or miss anyway.
So I installed Coreboot/Seabios on it Which read the same stick just fine to boot from it. But there is a problem with SeaBIOS. It seems to refuse to accept inputs from either the Keyboard-Cover (which should USB via Pogo-Pins) and from my wireless keyboard.
Well atleast the sticks booted when inserted... sometimes and when it wanted to only.
The thing with seaBIOS and keyboards seems not to be a new thing. There are certain limitations to seaBiOS I read on the forums.
Alrighty made my sticks and there is really fun stuff to be had. Some arch-derivative isos just did not boot and I really did not want pure arch. Which kinda booted to live but I suspect would have got stuck after installing the newer kernel as well.
I did not want to install manjaro really. So i looked around and found GarudaOS. Whose ISO was a bit older so booted fine from live and even installed.
Updated the thing... Same thing as with Endeavour happened. I suspected the kernel-update just broke something dunno. Rolled back kernel via live USB (remember I could not choose a boot option in GRUB since keyboard does not work in seabios gg)
Got to a login-screen and logged in... black-screen. What the hell? i thought I had intel-graphics and not NVIDIA xD
So the update broke something. Now I am contemplating what to do. I could go back to PureOS, while I hate debian it atleast works. Or try manjaro.
Also it should be a good idea to get some help fron purism with the core-boot stuff since I cannot reflash PureBoot for whatever reason. They have a script for that which fails... great.
You can do stuff with it but it gets weird rather quickly.
All begun with me yeeting off Endeavour and trying out PureOS again (based on debian). It worked okay and even better than Endeavour for some tasks. Webex-Meetings were much better funnily enough. .
But I just cannot stand debian and its "stable" nature which can be just as buggy but you get the bugs later.
So I wanted something arch-based again...
Got a USB flashed Endeavour on it and... Pureboot actually decided to boot from the stick which is not a given. But EndeavourOS would not boot for me (certainly a trend...) It would just stay black after displaying the boot-messages. Really weird. Grabbed the stick flashed Manjaro on it. .
Pureboot (Purism own modified version of coreboot) Sees the stick but refuses to boot from it. Just yelled at me it could not find something bootable. Booting stuff from usb under Pureboot was very hit or miss anyway.
So I installed Coreboot/Seabios on it Which read the same stick just fine to boot from it. But there is a problem with SeaBIOS. It seems to refuse to accept inputs from either the Keyboard-Cover (which should USB via Pogo-Pins) and from my wireless keyboard.
Well atleast the sticks booted when inserted... sometimes and when it wanted to only.
The thing with seaBIOS and keyboards seems not to be a new thing. There are certain limitations to seaBiOS I read on the forums.
Alrighty made my sticks and there is really fun stuff to be had. Some arch-derivative isos just did not boot and I really did not want pure arch. Which kinda booted to live but I suspect would have got stuck after installing the newer kernel as well.
I did not want to install manjaro really. So i looked around and found GarudaOS. Whose ISO was a bit older so booted fine from live and even installed.
Updated the thing... Same thing as with Endeavour happened. I suspected the kernel-update just broke something dunno. Rolled back kernel via live USB (remember I could not choose a boot option in GRUB since keyboard does not work in seabios gg)
Got to a login-screen and logged in... black-screen. What the hell? i thought I had intel-graphics and not NVIDIA xD
So the update broke something. Now I am contemplating what to do. I could go back to PureOS, while I hate debian it atleast works. Or try manjaro.
Also it should be a good idea to get some help fron purism with the core-boot stuff since I cannot reflash PureBoot for whatever reason. They have a script for that which fails... great.
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@mkoas It just kinda would require more work to get it where I want it to be. Especially since I need suspend to ram to work and stuff. the pre-packaged stuff works more easily to get you up and running.
Just those nasty bugs are really dumb. So I suppose arch would suffer the same fate once installed as endeavour and garuda did once fully updated.
Might be worth a shoot if manjaro does not work out I guess? But spending an hour installing text-only just to find out it does not work is not really great.
Just those nasty bugs are really dumb. So I suppose arch would suffer the same fate once installed as endeavour and garuda did once fully updated.
Might be worth a shoot if manjaro does not work out I guess? But spending an hour installing text-only just to find out it does not work is not really great.
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Well some good stuff and bad stuff I guess. I managed some older ISO from manjaro and that one booted just fine from seaBIOS. Installed it and updated it. Still works so great really. Managed to also get pureboot (as bios) flashed on again (there was a kernel parameter I needed to pass for flashing to work. Thankfully purism has a forum you can look through and find something useful)
Obviously flashing it meant I can't into my installed manjaro anymore. Oh well. Both sticks also are not bootable. Oh well. Guess gonna check their forums and open a thread. It would be nice to have pureboot since I can actually use my keyboard to navigate it. Either that or a seabios that has a working keyboard xD.
Fun times. I will go back home together so I can likely get that thing ready for use again over the weekend.
Obviously flashing it meant I can't into my installed manjaro anymore. Oh well. Both sticks also are not bootable. Oh well. Guess gonna check their forums and open a thread. It would be nice to have pureboot since I can actually use my keyboard to navigate it. Either that or a seabios that has a working keyboard xD.
Fun times. I will go back home together so I can likely get that thing ready for use again over the weekend.
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Librem 11 off-the-rails adventures wayland+
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On an unrelated note. I really came to like wayland more because of this tablet. Wayland has modern features such auto-rotate on that thing and you can scale two displays with different percentages. Which is very useful in my case since I can run 150/175% scaling on the tablet screen and 100% on that 23" monitor I can hook that thing up to.
Also I could configure that the screen of the tablet turns off when connected to the monitor as well. Thanks KDE!
Also I could configure that the screen of the tablet turns off when connected to the monitor as well. Thanks KDE!
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