Thanks for this feedback, it’s promising.
Just one thing a didn’t find is the call/sms/mms statue? Do they work fine?
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For what it’s worth, (I don’t want to jinx it, but) there has been exactly zero BT audio stuttering for me since the upgrade to 6.6.0-1-librem5 on my L5 a few days ago.
Kernel upgrades in the past haven’t made many huge changes but I swear things improved (not just BT) since the 6.6.0 update.
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So if I have a L5 running PureOS Byzantium and wanted to try Crimson on it, how would that be done?
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Sounds good. I really want to try it out, but I want to stay on stable Byzantium until Crimson release is also stable. The only reason I restart my ppc is that usb/bt bug.
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Reflash the OS with crimson.
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I have not had time to reflash to Crimson, but I will do so tomorrow.
No, it is intermittent on Crimson. Sometimes the cellular modem will randomly disconnect and reconnect while composing an SMS. I do not permit calls whatsoever on Byzantium or Crimson.
Externally backup any important files, then follow the reflash instructions here.
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That’s just smart but in this case I’d suggest doing a whole disc image which can then be used to return L5 to current state (when using USB/jumpdrive with external linux machine: Discs app → select your L5’s 31 GB Disc → upper right hand corner for create/restore disc image [not partition]). It needs 32GB of free space, of course.
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/boot is the same partition size on both Byzantium and Crimson, while /var is approximately 5.5 GB on Crimson, with 68% of it occupied on a fresh image. Attempting to install Secrets like last time failed, so I quickly had to learn about GNOME Disks and resize / to 10 GB instead to install Secrets, Lollypop, and Shortwave. After doing so, 6 GB of / is now filled.
I noticed a few details on Crimson:
- There is no haptic feedback from using the keyboard by default.
- Battery drain is slightly higher, being slowly drained using the USB-C cable connected to the Librem 14.
- Audio playback is unreliable.
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My understanding is that Purism’s approach on the Librem 5 of providing a disk image means that a resize is always necessary immediately after reflashing. (That applies whether you use the LUKS variant or the unencrypted variant, although I think you mentioned that only the latter is currently available for Crimson. The exact commands needed for the resize will depend on which variant is in use.)
I would just resize to 100% of the partition size, so you will end up with the root file system allocated roughly 30 GB of space. (How much of that is available of course depends on what other stuff you have put on that file system.)
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I wonder, will sxmo-utils work on crimson? Would love to see it. sxmo is awesome for me (maybe not for everybody (: )
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Provide me instructions and I will take screenshots.
You can check if the package is available with apt-cache madison sxmo-utils, but I don’t know the correct way to switch to using sxmo instead of the Phosh interface. Usually with gnome, if another desktop environment is installed (such as i3), that allows a person to log out and click a settings icon in a corner of the login screen, where the person can select the alternative desktop. Then, logging in starts the alternative desktop (and the choice persists until it is changed back).
On Phosh, I do not see any such option. Maybe Purism devs know how to do it? @dos @guido.gunther ?
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Awesome! _______
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Assuming you want to try out crimson what is the repository link to download the Librem 5 image?
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Normally it is fetched from Jenkins, but the API used during the librem5-flash-image script is not functioning correctly the last time I checked it a day or so ago. However, you can still manually download it.
Where though? Is there a link for ARM64 crimson images?
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Image Builds landing [Image Builds] [Jenkins]
The file is named librem5r4.img.xz and requires archive extraction.
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Awesome thank you for the link, based on this post:
Any image builds in landing are now crimson not byzantium, would be my assumption since it does’t say crimson in the image build file.
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Yes, correct. There is no crimson build for the Librem 5 on Jenkins, so landing is the workaround to that other than building your own image.
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