L5 Crimson image testing thread

I can test now a few more things until tomorrow. Any suggestions?

[edit: Unfortunately Calls and Chats are not on the menu atm]

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How about convergence?

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Yes, I still have the problem. So, I have the Redpine card, and WiFi seems not to be detected correctly. Rebooting or switching HKS off and on helps not.

I see this in the logging (sudo journalctl -f) after first switching WiFi HKS off, and then on again (note that I did not type all details below, because I have no possibility to copy paste, so it is manually typed):

... manager: rfkill: Wi-Fi now enabled by radio killswitch
...
... kernel: mmc1: new high speed SDIO card at address fffd
... pureos kernel: rsi_91x: rsi_probe: 9116 module detected
... puros kernel: RSI-SDIO WLAN mmc1:fffd:1: Direct firmware load for rsi/rs9116_wlan_bt_classic.rps failed with error -2
...
... Failed to open file rsi/rs9116_wlan_bt_classic.rps
...
... pureos kernel: Error: Driver 'RSI-SDIO WLAN' is already registered, aborting...
... pureos systemd[1]: systemd-rfkill.service: Deactivated successfully
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I was positively surprised, although I still don’t find it very stable (similar to byz situation, although it might be about my specific monitor). I’m curious if the refresh rate that display settings now shows for L5 (63,41Hz) is the culprit here (as it’s not 60Hz like normal) - that wasn’t shown in the old settings. All in all, I wish there would be more of a delay before the monitor setup is switched (now it seems so hair triggered) and/or memory for preference profiles that keep (which setting with what monitor) that could be forced somehow.

Oh, and removing the hub while in convergence shut down the phone.

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So, I take it you can get wifi, it just takes a bit of luck and/or effort. I’ll make a note in the chart.

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Did you get Dino to connect too, XMPP conversations etc.? Worked fine? What version is it?

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Thanks to Opensource team by default the RSI driver for Redpine on Opensource-Linux upstream is request BLOBs via GNU, even when there is a available flag(Thanks for Purism) to disable blob for Gnu to rsi driver. So i guess to fix redpine issues it needed to put blobs on Gnu on a happy way. :slight_smile:
Why is this happen? because Linux mainline mission for L5, where Opensource has the full control on Linux.
In fact Linux/LinusT do not care Propietary Driver on Linux either, the only reason for request libre driver it is to keep development over vendor.

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Sorry, rebooting helps not. I never got wifi working. I fixed (edited) my incorrect earlier message.

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worked fine. dino v0.4.4

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Just installed Crimson and it already looks nice - thanks for all the good work to everybody who helped!

But as the overview shows: no audio in phone calls.

Until audio is not working I can’t really help with testing even though I’d be willing to live through instability and other problems.

Anything else I tried: :white_check_mark::upside_down_face:

  • installing flatpaks (fractal, railway)
  • sending & receiving sms
  • mobile data (no long time experience here, my byzantium is using ppp to get a stable connection)
  • wifi

Annoying: there’s still the problem with gnome-keyring that it asks for its own password and doesn’t use the login password of user purism.

On a system with full disk encryption not working, yet, this matters, because I’d prefer to have the password being used while testing (on my fde byzantium I disabled the password, because the disk is encrypted anyway and the gnome-keyring unlocked once I used it - too lazy to relock it, so there is no use in an extra password).

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Has anyone looked at byz-backports and crimson? both. To me, they seem pretty much the same - probably due to same phosh versions. Has anyone noticed anything really different (besides crimson being a work in progress)?

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So Crimson has phosh 0.34 while @galilley’s Byzantium backports has phosh 0.44! Note the difference

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Ok, I’ll give you that. My point was more that there’s nothing mindblowingly different at first glance - hence the need for more thorough looks.

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There should be if you have the backports fully installed.
What does apt list phosh show?

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It’s the 0.44.0, as it should be. Not to be confusing, but it’s all relative and it’s all good - just nothing major. The most useful difference that I’ve noticed is the GNOME utilities folder icon (instead of those apps being amongst all the others), but I considered thet to be one of the minor details. From the non-phosh apps, I notice how Settings has gotten more stuff, but yet it seems just a bit incremental. The line for squeekboard and how that acted was annoying at first.
… stuff like that from the byz-backports. Crimson seemed to have some of the GNOME stuff, but nothing relatively major (yet) to show or hint at.

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Hi everyone!
I’m in the deal! Just boot Crimson on my phone :). Gnome-calls do not really work (main blocker) and looks like bluetooth handset do not activated automatically, but now I’m able to test Crimson-backports-unofficial and Phosh 0.44.1 is already there!

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Give it to me crimson-backports now, now ,now.

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Just created the new thread, you are welcome! :blush:

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I flashed Crimson like this

./scripts/librem5-flash-image --stable --variant plain --dist crimson

and the script said that the image installed was

Build "stable" 'Last stable librem5r4 build' from Tue Jan 14 18:35:42 2025

SMS works.

For phonecalls there is no audio (I can make a call but I cannot hear the other person’s voice and they cannot hear me).

Ideas on how to fix that?

Other who have tested, does phonecall audio work for you in Crimson?

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Not working. Mic/sources not seen by system.

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