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+++ title = "Tuxedo: keyboard drivers" summary = """Parts of my obviously already lost memory about that freaking tuxedo-keyboard drivers. Installation on Fedora 37 and Manjaro Sway.""" date = "2023-01-23T23:05:11+0100" categories = ["computerstuff"] tags = ["linux", "fedora", "manjaro", "reminders"]
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I had some "fun" recently when I realized that my keyboard on my main laptop was lagging. Nearly every character at the end of a command or at the beginning of a typing sequence were lost. I didn't noticed when this exactly took over, but I started to hate this behaviour.
So I thought it might be a good idea to install the drivers from where I bought the laptop in the first place.
Fedora 37
Now it's already a few months ago since I made my notes about this, I'm already running Manjaro Linux for a week or two so I'll just format my notes a bit and let this reside on this page, for later use I might have to re-investigate that sh** again...
$ sudo dnf install kernel-devel
$ sudo dnf copr enable kallepm/tuxedo-keyboard
$ sudo dnf copr enable kallepm/tuxedo-control-center
$ sudo dnf install tuxedo-control-center
Since I usually won't need the Control-Center, and to only get actual (as in up-to-date) drivers, clone the git repository.
$ cd $HOME/git
$ git clone https://github.com/tuxedocomputers/tuxedo-keyboard.git
$ cd tuxedo-keyboard
$ git checkout release
Then build the module and ignore any error about vmlinux being unavailable:
$ make clean && make
Add the module as DKMS module:
$ make clean
$ sudo make dkmsinstall
And finally load the modules with modprobe:
$ sudo modprobe tuxedo_keyboard
tuxedo_io should normally be automatically loaded when you load
tuxedo_keyboard.
Sources
Manjaro (Sway)
Check what kernel version is running (uname -a)
and install the linux headers for that kernel.
$ sudo pacman -S linux515-headers
Install tuxedo-keyboard-dkms from the wonderful AUR repository.
$ sudo pacman -S tuxedo-keyboard-dkms
or if you use yay
$ yay tuxedo-keyboard-dkms
Default values are crap (on my Polaris).
$ echo "options tuxedo_keyboard color=WHITE" | sudo tee
/etc/modprobe.d/tuxedo_keyboard.conf
You may read on the tuxedo website that you load other colors
with sudo modprobe tuxedo_keyboard color=BLUE for example---
for me, this never worked. A reboot it is then for me.
They work on it, they say... But we know, this feature will never be implemented. That state is now for 2 years since I bought that "linux laptop" from Tuxedo. PS: I'd never buy one again.