Re: [External] Re: Support for non-free-firmware in project webpages

2023-01-25 Thread Mark Pearson
On 1/22/23 10:04, Bill Allombert wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 03:43:38PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi Bill, I might have overlooked better contact information, but couldn't find a popcon.debian.org to report bugs against, or a repository for the server side to file merge requests against.

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-08 Thread Mark Pearson
On 06/03/2021 11:24, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes: >> >> Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages >>

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-06 Thread Mark Pearson
On 05/03/2021 18:14, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes: > > Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages > Mark> installed and then under settings->user you can start > Mark

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-05 Thread Mark Pearson
Thanks Sam & Wouter On 05/03/2021 02:52, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:57:15PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: >> The parts of Debian that are trying to do that are some of the desktop >> environments. So, I'd approach the maintainers of Gnome and KDE and >> see if they are intere

Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-02-24 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi all, Not sure the right forum to raise this - please redirect me as appropriate :) I was checking Debian on my Lenovo P1 G3 today (using testing latest) and figured I'd have another stab at getting the fingerprint working - something I've not had much success with previously on Debian. It tur

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-13 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Kurt On 6/13/2020 5:47 AM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 05:10:11PM -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: Hi Kurt On 6/12/2020 2:58 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 01:39:08PM +, Mark Pearson wrote: The good - Lenovo are expanding what they offer on Linux (we had

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-12 Thread Mark Pearson
On 6/10/2020 2:59 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 My plan before this conversation came up was to keep an eye on what fixes were needed to get things working on the Ubuntu/Fedora/RHEL front and then once those were upstream work on getting those

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-12 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Kurt On 6/12/2020 2:58 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 01:39:08PM +, Mark Pearson wrote: The good - Lenovo are expanding what they offer on Linux (we had another big announcement yesterday about doing full config on our workstations with Ubuntu and RHEL). We're a

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-10 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Yves-Alexis On 6/6/2020 10:43 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 11:58 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: That's where doing a Debian pre-load would be challenging (which is really where this conversation started). If support

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-05 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Martin On 6/5/2020 11:03 AM, Martin wrote: On 2020-06-03 13:39, Mark Pearson wrote: I'm the linux technical lead at Lenovo for the PC team and I'd *love* to improve the Debian experience on Lenovo platforms. Very welcome! Just to add some praise here: I'm using X220 at h

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-05 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Marc On 6/5/2020 9:51 AM, Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 09:13:39AM -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: On 6/5/2020 5:03 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote: While we're asking for rainbow colored unicorns here, I'd love the Lenovo support organiation to be a little less bitchy when

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-05 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Paul On 6/5/2020 9:28 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 1:20 PM Mark Pearson wrote: I haven't so far got as far as thinking about the backporting stage so I probably need more education there. My goal so far has been to get fixes from upstream into sid so that Debian user

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-05 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Pirate On 6/5/2020 5:03 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote: Hi Mark, I also use a Thinkpad (X240) with Debian unstable, it mostly work except for some issues with touchpad and suspend (touchpad stops working after resuming from suspend, but I work around it using an external mouse). OK - I'll

Re: FW: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-03 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Jonathan On 6/3/2020 4:40 PM, Jonathan Carter wrote: Hey Mark On 2020/06/03 20:24, Mark Pearson wrote: In my mind the best long term solution for Debian is if Lenovo are contributing fixes ourselves - after all we usually know what the fixes are. We're not technically at the stage

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-03 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Vincent On 6/3/2020 3:29 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 3 juin 2020 13:39 +00, Mark Pearson: As an important example - the X1 Carbon 7 (which is a popular machine) still doesn't work well with any version of Debian (including experimental or testing) as the audio is broken. Debian

Re: FW: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-03 Thread Mark Pearson
o accounts...) On 6/3/2020 1:23 PM, Mark Pearson wrote: -Original Message- From: Jonathan Carter Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:54 AM Hi Mark! On 2020/06/03 15:39, Mark Pearson wrote: I guess it should be possible, but the biggest challenge is probably to get the right contact to

RE: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-03 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Goirand > Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 8:10 AM > > On 6/3/20 4:30 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've found an article about Lenovo ships Fedora pre-installed machine. > > https://news.lenovo.com/smarter-technology-for-all-extends-to-th

Re: Lenovo X395 Support Latest Debian Version

2020-02-11 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi, We checked it out here. My colleague installed Debian 10.3 and found he had to also install the 19.50 proprietary amdgpu driver - after that everything seems to work fine: Debian instructions for the AMD GPU are here: https://wiki.debian.org/AMDGPUDriverOnStretchAndBuster2 Driver is here:

Re: Lenovo X395 Support Latest Debian Version

2020-02-08 Thread Mark Pearson
hat also means that if you (or anybody else) find any issues you can bug me and I'm more likely to be able to find answers 😊 Thanks Mark Pearson