Question for the experienced. I wanted to build up my linux system from scratch and so I started with a very minimal Debian install, building incrementally. It’s mostly where I want it but I still have the following problems when compared to the full PureOS install:
On restart, the keyboard backlight will reset to OFF. I’d like it to remember its previous setting or at least default to on.
After wake from sleep, the backlight up/down function keys no longer work. They do work after a reboot.
I have installed the librem-ec-acpi-dkms package. But, wondering if there’s anything else to consider.
I’m running a Librem 14 off of the bookworm (testing) branch of Debian.
Hmmmm. Would that be provided by the librem-ec-acpi-dkms package? I run:
$ lsmod | grep librem
But I don’t see it loaded. So I wonder if I need to take additional steps to enable the module after it’s installed.
Edit:
Ha! I figured this out, you gave me the hint I needed.
After some head-scratching I reinstalled the librem-ec-acpi module and noticed the install was actually failing due to missing kernel headers.
I ran what I needed to have run when I upgraded from stable to testing: $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
This had the side effect of installing the correct kernel headers for this kernel, so the librem-ec-acpi-dkms package was installed correctly and both issues are resolved now.
I might post some more in this thread if I run into any other adventures. The only other thing I’d really like it to be doing right now is automatically switching audio output when I plug in headphones to the jack. Currently I have to do that manually in the settings every time.
Oh, nice to know that librem-ec-acpi-dkms is also in Debian, I wrongly assumed that it would only be in PureOS and that kept me from switching to “plain” Debian so far
That is also still not working in PureOS, at least for me.
Purism was very cool to get librem-ec-acpi-dkms merged into the main Debian repositories. I appreciate that.
You can listen to ACPI events with the acpi_listen command, but when you plug / unplug the headphones, no ACPI events are fired. So I wonder if it’s more of a driver / firmware / hardware problem.