Hi Dennis, And thanks for your report. Dennis van Dok <dennisvd@nikhef.nl> (2023-03-06): > Using a netboot install image with non-free firmware; the wireless > card was not detected during the installation so I used the wired > network adapter instead. If you have a few minutes to spare, it would be helpful to know whether the official D-I Bookworm Alpha 2 image is working better in that regard. With a newer kernel, and newer firmware packages included (in an official capacity), I'd expect your card to be detected and working out of the box. There's no need to go through the whole installation process, just reaching the network configuration step would be sufficient. That being said, if you ended up with pulling various bits from testing anyway, and if those work fine, the installer should be fine as well, so whether to run that extra test is really up to you. :) > The touchpad was not working, but an external mouse could be used. > This later turned out to be a minor issue but a cost me the most time. > Loading the i2c_hid_acpi module got it going. Do you need to load it manually in the installed system as well? The Bullseye installer ships i2c-hid.ko, but no i2c-hid-acpi.ko. The Bookworm installer ships both. If the issue you've seen is about the missing touchpad in the installer, that's unfortunate but expected in Bullseye, and this should work better with Bookworm. It might just be that the kernel in Bullseye is a tad too old, seeing that i2c-hid-acpi.ko was introduced in the v5.11 release cycle (as a side effect of i2c-hid.ko getting reorganized). If the issue you've seen is about the kernel not loading a required module automatically, this is likely going to be a problem with Bookworm, both in the installer environment and in the installed system. Sometimes, it might be a dependency towards another component that's not expressed in the Linux kernel code (e.g. via a MODULE_SOFTDEP macro). But it's a little hard to brainstorm this without knowing more about when you had to load i2c_hid_acpi manually. > Since this was a fairly new laptop I expected some things not to work (yet). > The missing firmware files reported by the kernel could be downloaded from > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git > which was sufficient to get the wireless card and bluetooth to work. Hopefully Bookworm would be much better there as there were upgrades to newer upstream releases, meaning support both in the installer and in the installed system. > The sound card required the latest firmware from the SOF project. That should get installed automatically too. > To get the digital microphone working a different topology file was > needed as outlined on this page: > > https://thesofproject.github.io/latest/getting_started/intel_debug/suggestions.html#digital-mic-issues > > And this bug report: > > https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/4099 I suppose this isn't something we can do much about in the installer context… we focus on getting sound out, not in anyway. ;) (For speech synthesis.) > The system seems to do great otherwise, as it is my daily workhorse to > replace an earlier Fujitsu model (LIFEBOOK U937). The only > non-functioning element is the Fujitsu PalmSecure biometric sensor. Nice to hear, and I really hope the Bookworm installer is performing better with that machine. :) Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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