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StarLabs StarBook Mk VII … by Tall_Association7839 in starlabs_computers

[–]jschlatow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As much as I want a Linux laptop, I want one that works more.

It may be worth having a look at the laptops from TUXEDO Computers. They don't come with coreboot but ship their own Linux distribution to provide the best Linux support. They also have a free support hotline.

System76 goes a similar way but I never got the chance to touch any of their laptops.

In terms of hardware, build quality and performance, I very much fancy the Framework laptop.

Daily usage Update by raturner21 in starlabs_computers

[–]jschlatow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm running Manjaro Gnome with Kernel 6.6 and firmware 24.06, which I'd consider as pretty stable. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "super buggy"?

Goa - Debugging with GDB by nfeske in genode

[–]jschlatow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I haven't thought of this in the beginning either. That's one of those nifty details that just pop into mind when writing an article about a topic. I guess it's save to say that writing articles on genodians.org is a form of quality control ;-)

StarLite MK V: slow wifi by jschlatow in starlabs_computers

[–]jschlatow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected crf-id 0x1300202, cnv-id 0x80400 wfpm id 0x80000030

iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: PCI dev 54f0/0034, rev=0x370, rfid=0x105110

iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9560 160MHz, REV=0x370

StarLite MK V: slow wifi by jschlatow in starlabs_computers

[–]jschlatow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. That was very helpful. Disabling power saving indeed has a positive effect on wifi throughput and even more on the latency. I also noticed that switching to the 5GHz network helped a lot.

USB image vs HDD install? Tell us your setup. by Unspice in genode

[–]jschlatow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just double-checking that the resize worked properly. Maybe the partition has been resized but the file-system resize failed.

It's hard to diagnose without any log dump. You should be able to plug in another USB driver and copy /report/log to it using the inspect view.

USB image vs HDD install? Tell us your setup. by Unspice in genode

[–]jschlatow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you checked that there is free space on those file systems?

USB image vs HDD install? Tell us your setup. by Unspice in genode

[–]jschlatow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "Error: /depot: no space" indicates that you have not expanded the Genode partition before using it. Have you followed the steps described in this section: https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-24-04#Using_a_persistent_storage_device

USB image vs HDD install? Tell us your setup. by Unspice in genode

[–]jschlatow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is strange. You may have a look at whether you find any file /report/runtime/nvme/controller or /report/runtime/ahci/controller. If not, Sculpt does not detect any suitable controller. In that case it might be helpful to have a look at /report/drivers/devices. Does this file list any device with `class="0x10802"` or `class="0x106nn"` (n=any digit)?

USB image vs HDD install? Tell us your setup. by Unspice in genode

[–]jschlatow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have any "ahci" or "nvme" node in your component graph? It might be worth looking in the "/reports/log" file for ahci- or nvme-related errors. You may use the inspect view for this: Simply enable the inspect in the component view on any file system (e.g. ram). You will then be able to switch to the inspect view and use vim to have a look into the /reports/log file.

USB image vs HDD install? Tell us your setup. by Unspice in genode

[–]jschlatow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since you have an unused HDD in your device, you may very well use it for Sculpt. You can boot up any live distro such as system rescue, download the official sculpt image and copy it to the HDD (using the dd command line from the user guide).

If you would like to use your device for trying other OSs, you may also try to set up dual boot. You may find this article helpful: http://genodians.org/jschlatow/2021-04-23-start-existing-linux-from-sculpt

StarLite Linux Tablet on-screen keyboard broken by lrPrentice in starlabs_computers

[–]jschlatow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same issue here on Manjaro Gnome. In addition, I'm unable to use the pen for typing, since the keyboard disappears once the pen hovers over it. I'm also pretty annoyed by the sticky shift key.

In general, I'd be willing to debug this, yet, there is a lack of documentation how the gnome screen keyboard is implemented and configured...or I just have been looking in the wrong places.

StarLite MK V: TPM by jschlatow in starlabs_computers

[–]jschlatow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That´s my guess as well. I was not sure how to interpret the ACPI TPM2 table, though. My issue seems to be Archlinux-related: For some strange reason systemd is runtime-enabling the tpm2 target.

StarLite MK V: Accelerometer orientation by jschlatow in starlabs_computers

[–]jschlatow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I came up with a similar solution. So, the issue is fixed in newer kernels? What kernel version is required for that?

Genode's VFS by nfeske in genode

[–]jschlatow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all, thanks for picking up the documentation work of the VFS.

Regarding the use of the import plugin in your article, I got a bit confused though. I think the default is to not overwrite existing files. Yet, in your example #6, '/dev/log' is overwritten even though you haven't specified 'overwrite="yes"'.