AVL-MXE : patch for Lenovo V15 G4 laptop

[jmtschanz]

Hello,

After failing to install Reaper on Ubuntu, I've just installed AVL-MXE, and Reaper opens, things look very exciting !

Now I've met exactly the same issue as with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: my touchpad and keyboard won't respond

This week the issue was solved on Ubuntu by using a patch one can obtain here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=305236

I guess a similar patch will have to be applied to either my current kernel or another kernel (on Ubuntu downloading a new kernel was necessary).

Does anyone know how to fit the patch to AVL-MXE, and if it works on the current kernel ?

Thanks for reading

[tseaver]

I'm running the current AVL-MXE release, which has this kernel installed by default:

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$ uname -a
Linux <hostname> 6.0.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC liquorix 6.0-6~mx21+1 (2022-11-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

That kernel is provided by this package:

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$ dpkg-query --search /boot/vmlinuz-6.0.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64 
linux-image-6.0.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64: /boot/vmlinuz-6.0.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64

Although the header package for that kernel is available in the MX repos, the corresponding linux-liquorix source package is not, nor can I find it on the https://liquorix.net/debian archive. The Github repo for maintaining the liquorix kernel packages appears to be here:

https://github.com/damentz/liquorix-package/

but my Debian-fu is too weak to reverse engineer how to get a new build done from there, applying that one-line patch.

So, I'm afraid you are left with downloading the corresponding source tarball yourself, applying the patch, and building / installing the kerne (exercise left for the student).

[sunrat]

@jmtschanz as you are using MX, you should ask Stevo (stevepusser) on MX forums about this. He is the maintainer of Liquorix on MX.

[jmtschanz]

@jmtschanz as you are using MX, you should ask Stevo (stevepusser) on MX forums about this. He is the maintainer of Liquorix on MX.

I'm running the current AVL-MXE release, which has this kernel installed by default:

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$ uname -a
Linux <hostname> 6.0.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC liquorix 6.0-6~mx21+1 (2022-11-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

That kernel is provided by this package:

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$ dpkg-query --search /boot/vmlinuz-6.0.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64 
linux-image-6.0.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64: /boot/vmlinuz-6.0.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64

Although the header package for that kernel is available in the MX repos, the corresponding linux-liquorix source package is not, nor can I find it on the https://liquorix.net/debian archive. The Github repo for maintaining the liquorix kernel packages appears to be here:

https://github.com/damentz/liquorix-package/

but my Debian-fu is too weak to reverse engineer how to get a new build done from there, applying that one-line patch.

So, I'm afraid you are left with downloading the corresponding source tarball yourself, applying the patch, and building / installing the kerne (exercise left for the student).

OK I guess quite a few users are meant to face the issue so a fix will be likely in not too much time

Thanks for your asnwers

[jmtschanz]

On Tech Patterns forum the patch I've put a link to in the OP is dismissed as "random hack" and I am invited to upgrade my kernel, which I've tried (with the latest bulleye, since AVL-MXE is built on bulleye OS) but with no result so far (some components couldn't be installed).

I can install Debian 12 that has all the fixes, but I guess I'd have to re-install every wonder on AVL-MXE... Well ?