Re: [Trisquel-users] Libiquity Taurinus X200 turns 100₂ years old

2019-09-28 Thread patrick . mcdermott
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

2019-09-28 Thread patrick . mcdermott
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

[Trisquel-users] Libiquity Taurinus X200 turns 100₂ years old

2019-09-28 Thread patrick . mcdermott
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

Re: [Trisquel-users] journalctl complains bios is broken

2019-08-07 Thread patrick . mcdermott
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

2019-06-07 Thread patrick . mcdermott
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)

2018-09-07 Thread patrick . mcdermott
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

Re: [Trisquel-users] My T400 laptop restarts each 5 seconds

2018-09-01 Thread patrick . mcdermott
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

Re: [Trisquel-users] My T400 laptop restarts each 5 seconds

2018-09-01 Thread patrick . mcdermott
> 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

Re: [Trisquel-users] Connecting an EPSON Workforce WF 3640 Printer to Trisquel on Lenovo T400 Libreboot

2018-06-24 Thread patrick . mcdermott
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