Does a distro like debian or Arch work on the laptop of which the touchpad doesn't work ?

The program redshift may help change the screen brightness.

https://www.hyperbola.info/packages/?so … p;flagged=

There are also some programs for a touchpad.

https://www.hyperbola.info/packages/?so … p;flagged=

About wifi maybe this link will help.

https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … ed_working

I think there are other programs as well that may help. These may not be installed by the reference installation.

https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … stallation

Thanks for the afort. I installed redshift and it says:

Gamma ramp size too small: 0
Failed to start adjustment method randr.
Trying next method...
Using method `vidmode'.
Waiting for initial location to become available...
Location: XX.XX N, XX.XX E

and it won't work.

Also I did find the xenocara-input-synaptics before, it didn't change anything.
And indeed I read all the wiki, I know that my wifi firmware is proprietary and that's why it isn't working (I'm using my phone to connect)

Thanks, indeed I found this website which gives coordinates needed for redshift. Also I checked the manpage, you have to run the command something like this:

redshift -l LAT:LON -t 5700:3600 -g 0.1

but still no success.

Do anyone here knows how can I work with my hardware firmware so maybe I can program it manually? or even develop a free firmware for it, I would really appreciate it.

I used xsct.

First I think I typed

than I tested

to dim the screen.

It was more dim.
Than

to get my screen bright again.

Though I do not yet know how to set redshift, but this may help dim a screen.
I did not check about getting a touchpad to work yet.

The

on my computer has a file called fluxbox-keys

in it that shows some shortcuts, in-case you do not have a mouse, but only a touchpad.

My user account on my computer is called cody.

I'm still looking for a way to get a touchpad to work.

I'm using the lumina desktop, but I just saw that I could somehow "use" by mistake the touchpad to "right click" in the badwolf browser by moving my finger back and forth on it or holding my finger on it.

Though I do not know how well that touchpad even works, even when I in use it with Trisquel.

I used other touchpads that worked better before. I do not yet know why this touchpad with any OS works(somewhat) the way it does.

In Trisquel I think the touchpad can be used to move the cursor, but it could also be something with the hardware on my touchpad, as I can only get a "right click" to work sometimes. Like when using the badwolf browser, but not the lumina desktop or insight.

Thank you, throgh, jim, and maran for the information about getting a touchpad to work. My touchpad is working now.

Thank you mkoushan, for the information about the website.

I hope the information here and at the other post can also help both mkoushan and benyouyou, as well as others to get screen brightness and touchpad controls working well.

From my current information about the hardware: Not in those details you have mentioned. Especially because redshift and xsct would need also access to the screen-interfaces and not all are supported or offering those.

I use lumina desktop environment. I have checked what you suggest for doing before, I don't have anything in /sys/class/backlight

no, lumina-config doesn't offer any option for my screen. It can't detect the resolutions either. I have to first boot into system bios configuration page (to make my resolution wider) then boot directly to the hyperbola to have the correct resolution (but still wrong refresh rate).
And yes, in Arch I had that. I even used to have my own script to change the brightness before switching to brighnessctl

modprobe: FATAL: Module ddcci_backlight not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.191-gnu1-1-lts

I think I have to implement it myself

it doesn't compile.

make -C "ddcci"
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/koushan/projects/ddcci-driver-linux/ddcci'
make -C "/lib/modules/5.10.191-gnu1-1-lts/build" M="/home/koushan/projects/ddcci-driver-linux/ddcci" modules
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/koushan/projects/ddcci-driver-linux/ddcci'
make[2]: *** /lib/modules/5.10.191-gnu1-1-lts/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/koushan/projects/ddcci-driver-linux/ddcci'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:38: ddcci.ko] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/koushan/projects/ddcci-driver-linux/ddcci'
make: *** [Makefile:28: ddcci] Error 2

I checked Makefiles, I it sources build and extra folders in /lib/modules/5.10.191-gnu1-1-lts/ directory which does not exist.
I tried to find the needed folders in that directory but I did not.
I don't know much about Hyperbola kernel, how can I resolve this issue?