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How to install Fedora on a Pixelbook with reasonable results
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Cannot get keyboard brightness working through Ansible install #41

Closed tylerreed98 closed 2 years ago

tylerreed98 commented 2 years ago

Ansible reports everything installed and was changed successfully. but even after adding the ctrl + space shortcut to the keyboard shortcuts the keyboard brightness still doesn't work. It seems ansible didn't put the script files in the correct location and the /sys/class/leds/chromeos::kbd_backlight/brightness that the keyboard brightness script refers to doesn't exist on my system. Everything else works though so I really don't know what's going on.

jmontleon commented 2 years ago

Which version of Fedora? What kernel version (uname -a)? Does lsmod | grep backlight return anything?

cros_kbd_led_backlight    16384  0

Also what coreboot version. I suppose if it's really old that could somehow be related.

$ sudo dmidecode | grep MrChromebox
    Version: MrChromebox-4.17.2
tylerreed98 commented 2 years ago

I am using fedora 36

"uname -a" returns: Linux fedora 5.18.16-200.fc36.x86_64

"lsmod | grep backlight" returns: cros_kbd_led_backlight 16384 0

coreboot version is 4.17

I suppose I should probably update coreboot and see if that fixes anything.

tylerreed98 commented 2 years ago

All is working, I really don't know why I didn't think to update coreboot. It was so simple and I've been trying to figure this out for a week now. Thank you for the help!

jmontleon commented 2 years ago

You're welcome. I never used 4.17. I was on one of the 4.16.x versions and jumped to 4.17.2. I wonder if there was a bug with 4.17. In any case, glad updating fixed it.

jmontleon commented 2 years ago

Actually, I found something already. That was exactly the case. https://www.reddit.com/r/chrultrabook/comments/vw0zkb/mrchromebox_417_07082022_changes/

Thanks for reporting and updating to help narrow it down. It's good to have an issue where the problem is identified in case others hit it.