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This is just assorted stuff i have for having a more usable system on _my_ C201 w/ arch... --- # Keyboard For Xorg: i have my .Xmodmap in this repo... note that i'm finnish with US keyboard C201s :P For Wayland / KDE Plasma: I have an xkb file deep in homedir/.config/xkb; it's roughly the same as the .Xmodmap but in XKB language - loading XKB files from ~/.config only works under wayland (X11 setxkbmap and folks don't look there by default). For reference, this is how i managed to test the compilation of it (in a wayland terminal with Xwayland available, in the home directory): $ setxkbmap -print c201 usfibadesc | xkbcomp -I.config/xkb - Note: this compiles the keymap to a file named stdin.xkm (just so you know what that is, just rm it.) To use it, i set these environment variables before running startplasma-wayland $ export XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=c201 $ export XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT=usfibadesc Skip setting the variant for standard US layout, or use "usfi" for US layout plus öäå in Search-;'[, or usfibadesc for that plus Escape in Search-~ (yep my C201 is falling apart). To have the graphical UIs list these layouts and variants, i would need to edit XML. Eww. So, I just set it with env vars instead. Modifying/extending XKB files is quite ... weird, but also way better than .Xmodmap; i hope they will make setxkbmap and folks look in ~/.config too, soon. Here's the link that helped me most: https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/blob/master/doc/user-configuration.md (in addition to just me grepping around /usr/share/X11/xkb for examples) # Xorg If you have this driver that arch-arm "provides", get rid of it: pacman -R xf86-video-armsoc-rockchip You likely want just the modesetting driver that comes with xorg, it's pretty good and has multi-head support. Mesa from the arch repos should work for OpenGL support. In case of GL trouble this repo does have a xorg.conf.d fragment showing how to disable glamor, but I hope you won't need that :) (There is also the fbturbo driver, that does work but no multi-head, and i dont know but I'd expect no GL either...) # Sound i made a systemd service for running alsaucm so you hopefully dont burn your speakers. ## 3.14 if you want to run that, copy the ROCKCHIPI2S alsa ucm data from ChromeOS and adjust alsaucm-setup.service accordingly (it's commented out there) ## Mainline (4.x/5.x/6.x) The upstream alsa ucm files should be ok. # Wifi linux-firmware has the firmware (.bin) but not the configuration (.txt); I decided to put the things from CrOS lib/firmware/brcm that linux-firmware doesn't have (the wifi .txt and the bluetooth patchfile) into lib-firmware. License? Do crime, be gay. Also, i think atleast the .txt qualifies as facts that are not copyrightable. (same might be true for the .hcd, *shrug*) # Bluetooth Since my 6.1.69-2 (as in, just right now), bluetooth should just work(TM), if you put the *.hcd from lib-firmware into /lib/firmware, and run that kernel. (You will need to install and configure the normal amount of bt stuff, but just read the arch wiki for that.) # Kernels (the linux-* folders here are quite abandoned, but are the original place for the kernel...) I'll preface this that whilst these are what I run, I don't have the resources to do support. Currently my C201 kernel is a 6.1.x (with some patches) built by my automated scripts There's a copy of the scripts at https://github.com/urjaman/kbb The built packages are at https://urja.dev/kbbpkgs/armv7h/ - or add this to pacman.conf: [kbbpkgs] SigLevel = Optional Server = https://urja.dev/kbbpkgs/armv7h/ Do a sync (pacman -Syu) and install linux-c201 and unless you have u-boot you also want linux-c201-chromebook. # Backlight (and volume) controls I have an udev ruleset to make it accessible for video group members, and xbindkeys config + scripts to adjust it. These are just one way to do it, but i really really wanted control of the adjustment curve to myself, so scripting works for that. I also added volume controls to the .xbindkeysrc so i dont need the xfce pulseaudio widget - it's looking like that was giving me problems with the panel capturing the keyboard... (i use pasystray instead now, but it doesnt do keyboard controls). # cbatticon-simplified I simplified cbatticon code a bit because it was being unreliable and i got enough of waiting for the maintainer to figure his stuff out - a pkgbuild to build my version (just a git build pointed at my repo) is included. # home-usbdevicenet my "userspace" for a very hacky usb device mode hack in the kernel side # Widevine CDM If you're so interested (for me the killer app is spotify web player), the ChromeOS widevine plugin can run under linux (atleast as of writing) - for chromium it is simple, for firefox see widevine-mod directory here. # emmc-microsd-combo this is just an example/template for custom udev rule+systemd service+shell script for putting parts of your system onto a microSD partition (if you're running from eMMC and would like to use the space on it for better things) (It's not usable as-is, you'll need to atleast fill in the partition UUID and adjust the script - obviously in addition to all the setup stuff of making partitions, moving files etc...)
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