Re: [Trisquel-users] Libiquity Taurinus X200 turns 100₂ years old
The anniversary sale has been extended through Monday, so if you don’t yet have a laptop that respects your freedom and privacy, there’s still time to get a Taurinus X200 at its lowest price yet! Thanks everyone for your interest and feedback so far. https://shop.libiquity.com/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Updating Linux-libre through jxself's APT-repository on Trisquel with Coreboot
libreboot is a distribution of coreboot and a payload (GRUB in most mainboard ROMs), and that step is specific to libreboot's GRUB configuration. Whether you need to do anything like that depends on your coreboot payload (and configuration thereof). If you're using coreboot's default payload of SeaBIOS and you have the grub-pc package (GRUB built for a BIOS) installed in Trisquel, you should be all set. (There would be no harm in running those commands anyway, and they would only need to be run once.)
[Trisquel-users] Libiquity Taurinus X200 turns 100₂ years old
Good GNUs, everyone! Many of you know that the Taurinus X200, which comes with Trisquel and Libreboot and is certified to Respect Your Freedom, is based on “old” hardware that is professionally refurbished and updated. But on Saturday the Taurinus X200 itself – first launched on September 28, 2015 – turns a whole 100₂ years old! To celebrate, Libiquity has lowered the price by $100 for Saturday, September 28 only! Grab yours from the Libiquity Store. Thank you to all who have supported our work these past 100₂ (that’s 4 in decimal) years! In addition to other improvements since the initial launch in 2015, we have recently added options for dual-band long-range Wi-Fi and a new 6-cell battery (new 9-cell batteries have been available since 2016, and all our batteries have always been expertly authenticated Lenovo brand and UL listed). Libiquity continues to improve the hardware, firmware, and software of the Taurinus X200, and these upgrades will be available to both new and existing customers.
Re: [Trisquel-users] journalctl complains bios is broken
This is normal and shouldn't cause any problems (note that it's only a warning). Linux detects that the Direct Memory Access (DMA) Remapping ACPI table (part of Intel VT-d, the IOMMU) is initialized wrong. This will be fixed in a future release of libreboot.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel security certificate has expired; Abrowser told me so
It was just a Let's Encrypt certificate that didn't get renewed automatically. quidam fixed it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] dmesg output: Missing free firmware (non-Free firmware loading is disable)
Some Linux (kernel) drivers, like those for Realtek Ethernet interfaces, try to load non-free firmware. Trisquel uses scripts from Linux-libre to disable non-free firmware loading in its Linux packages. So that message is just Trisquel's Linux notifying you that the Realtek Ethernet driver would have tried to load non-free firmware but didn't. Realtek Ethernet interfaces usually still work without such firmware.
Re: [Trisquel-users] My T400 laptop restarts each 5 seconds
Problems with resuming from suspend, you mean? Or reset loops in general? As Nico Huber wrote earlier in the thread to which I linked, coreboot's resume code path for this chipset wasn't very thoroughly tested during development. It happens to work reliably on many systems, but it's not as reliable on others. The exact cause isn't known, but it seems memory-related. I would note though that suspend-to-disk is a pure Linux (kernel) feature, doesn't involve any specific firmware code paths, and will therefore work as long as normal booting works (and assuming the OS is configured with swap space for it). So if suspend-to-RAM is unreliable for you, suspend-to-disk should work fine as an alternative. It might take a few seconds longer, but it'll use even less power (being shut down entirely) and save your session indefinitely instead of just for as long as the battery charge lasts.
Re: [Trisquel-users] My T400 laptop restarts each 5 seconds
> It turned on and five seconds later it turned off automatically. Did the screen backlight turn on at any point in those five seconds before the laptop turned off? If not, from your description it sounds like you're in a "reset loop" in the RAM initialization stage. The firmware tries to initialize your RAM, fails for some reason, and resets (reboots) to try again from scratch. If it's never able to initialize the RAM correctly, it will turn off and back on forever. Resuming from suspend-to-RAM could theoretically trigger such an infinite reset loop, but I've only ever seen it when I modified the order in which coreboot clears the resume flag and initializes RAM. The way the firmware works normally, resuming from suspend should only affect the first RAM initialization attempt. So I think there may be another cause here. I would first suggest checking your memory modules to make sure they match in density and such (the easiest thing to check is the RAM part numbers). Since you've already tried disconnecting the NVRAM/RTC battery, I guess you know how to get to the RAM slots right next to it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Connecting an EPSON Workforce WF 3640 Printer to Trisquel on Lenovo T400 Libreboot
As stated, you need a driver – specifically, the printer-driver-escpr package. The NEWS file says your printer model was added in version 1.4.0. Trisquel 7 has version 1.3.0, while Trisquel 8 has 1.6.3, so you'll need the version from T8. If you can't upgrade to T8, you could just install the single package from T8. Installing binary packages from different distribution versions normally isn't recommended, but in this case the dependencies are met in T7, so it should work fine.
