Hi Dennis, Dennis van Dok <dennisvd@nikhef.nl> (2023-03-07): > Can confirm that works; the alpha2 installer > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/bookworm_di_alpha2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-bookworm-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso > > Did see the wireless card and was able to get on my home wireless > network. Thanks for confirming! > It's currently sitting in /etc/modules, I could remove it to see if it > is still needed. I think it is, I'm running the latest kernel: Testing a boot without it in /etc/modules would be awesome, yes. > > The Bullseye installer ships i2c-hid.ko, but no i2c-hid-acpi.ko. > > Even so, the bookworm alpha did *not* let me use the touchpad even > after a manual load of i2c-hid-acpi. Not sure what else is needed (yet > more firmware?) I think it might need some other modules to be loaded so that the i2c bus is visible, and those might not be documented through a dependency. These modules might or might not be available in the installer, and that's why I'm suggesting checking what happens in the non-tweaked installed system, as a starting point. If I were a betting man, I'd put a coin on some LPSS-related module, which is an hypothesis already being tested in another bug report (intel-lpss-pci to be precise). > Would be worth chasing this further, I think; it might catch out other > prospective users. I was able to get by with just the keyboard for the > installation and initial setup, but not having a mouse pointer is a > serious usability issue. I'm willing to devote a little time towards > this (as long as I don't have to reinstall the entire machine). > > If this is not for the installer, then for the rest of the system; > against which components should I file a bug report? Great. We can keep this bug report for that purpose. Reinstalling is not going to be needed: - We want to check what happens in the installed system, with or without tweaks like /etc/modules; nothing that will require a reinstall. - We might want to check what happens in a tweaked installer. Since touchpad support can be tested from the very beginning, there's no need to go through any installation steps. It's an ever lighter test than what you already did above (testing wireless support), which was awesome already! > I didn't try the speech synth part; again, I think it is worth chasing > this further if you could help me figure out against which component > this should be filed (kernel?). A working microphone on a laptop is > relatively important for video meetings. Sure, I just meant this is definitely not going to be something that's a concern for the installer team. I'd suggest filing a bug report against src:linux indeed. Worst case, they can reassign it to a more suitable component. > Incidentally I tried but could not mount the crypted partition; is > cryptsetup not part of the installer? I saved the logs to /boot > instead. You might need to load it explicitly to make it accessible, it's definitely there and loaded automatically if you go for e.g. an encrypted LVM setup. Thanks again for the detailed report, feedback, and extra tests! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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