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Re: What hardware do you use for Hyperbola?

throgh wrote:

Well I don't think that having some global information about used hardware is that much of a problem as it seems to be some kind of Security through obscurity which is not very helpful using to keep it "secret". If some individuals could be attacked this can be done on so many other levels and ways that this information does not even count in the first place - getting information throughout "social engineering" is just one example. And it is helpful for people having interest getting more into libre hardware and the initial setup.

But yes, having possible information about libre hardware is also helpful on a global level!

I don't recall if I said this, but yeah, I forgot this for a moment.

Your right, that was silly.

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UPDATE: I am now using a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop with a SATA SSD and internally flashed with a blobless libreboot (stable release from June 2023, and WITHOUT microcode updates. Both out-of-date and up-to-date microcode are bad for freedom for being proprietary, I have merely decided that, in my case, outdated microcode is the lesser evil (but still an evil!), for the reasons outlined here and here. I believe that something as important as microcode should be free.).

I decided that using a pre-built stable libreboot ROM was the best solution in order to reduce the risk of bricking this laptop (which would force me to get external flashing equipment)

This is by far the librest laptop I have ever used, which is great. It is also noticiably faster than the other, more modern laptop I was using. Booting is very unreliable and often doesn't work, but this is not surprising given the dead CMOS battery and the fact that I am using a setup without microcode updates (which the Libreboot project explicitly recomends against). The touchpad is dead and the internal audio is malfunctional, but that's ok as these two can easily be replaced my peripherals (mouse and headphone). No internal Wi-Fi; hopefully I will soon get an USB Wi-Fi adapter with libre drivers so that I can achieve a freedom-friendly connection

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Re: What hardware do you use for Hyperbola?

Been using X230 and T430 mostly, but as of now, waiting for my X230 to get fixed. I bricked it accidentally...

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Libreboot's guides were not quite what I expected aka.

Also, I have 2 x200 devices, but one has 256GB of memory and is very old, the other has a broken display that flickers and immediately goes off.

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Really sorry about that, buddy

30 Reply by zapper (edited by zapper 2023-08-11 22:16:06)

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MamãoMutante wrote:

Really sorry about that, buddy

Meh, I was reckless and didn't read instructions. My bad on that.

Btw, if you want to build the current libreboot for ivy bridge devices, you need at current, two things:

(For x230 in this paritcular comment)

An x230 rom which btw, will not have the blob in it by default.

And, you need her codeberg.org/lbmk repo aka, this:

git clone https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk

cd lbmk

Then you inject the rom like below:

https://libreboot.org/docs/install/x230 … elease-rom

then it should flash correctly when you use the flashrom command that is required. . I have hesitance to test this, due to my recent failures, but if someone, wants to, free free.

I would, but I have already had to get it fixed after being mailed, like 3 times. Anymore would be heavily suspicious as far as my country goes.

It is what it is.

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My first real install of Hyperbola GNU w/ Linux is now on my Thinkpad x60 (i686) with Coreboot 4.18 (+microcode).  smile

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Re: What hardware do you use for Hyperbola?

Nice to read and hear. Hope you have as much fun using it as we have to build. smile
So also: Please feel free to share your impressions and proposals.

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I'm also another new user of Hyperbola. Just installed GNU/Linux-libre Milky Way i686 on my old Pentium 4 based laptop yesterday (don't know the full model name) and everything so far seems to be working.
3D accel works.
Sound works and I don't even need software volume control, since my laptop has a hardware volume knob.
Trackpad is in absolute mode for some reason (Maybe I did something wrong).
Ethernet works.
Don't have to worry about WiFi since I don't have any wireless NIC.
I don't want to switch over my other machines (Too much unsupported HW, mostly because of nonfree firmware and missing bluetooth support), but I'm glad I can properly use my old Laptop again.
Still have some issues with some parts of Hyperbola though. What would be the appropriate forum section to ask about general advice and share my first impressions (and issues) as a new user of Hyperbola.

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Re: What hardware do you use for Hyperbola?

Hello and welcome, sharing impressions depends on the section:

installation, this way -> https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewforum.php?id=87
packages / software, this way -> https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewforum.php?id=88
system / configuration, this way -> https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewforum.php?id=90
desktop, this way -> https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewforum.php?id=91

As you had mentioned the desktop-usage I would assume "system" or / and "destop". Hope this helps you! smile

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Libreboot thinkpad t60

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T400 + Gnuboot  https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev … 08696.html

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AMD FX 8300, AMD Radeon R7 240, 12GB of RAM and ASUS M5A78L-M LX3