Porteus

Hi Ed_P you have to install inxi package from slackware 15

KingJames wrote: ↑

07 Dec 2022, 03:43

Unfortunately

Hi KingJames.
Download from here and copy these modules to porteus/modules folder.
Reboot and test sound, bluetooth and wifi.
Thanks.

Okay, I finally got wifi and bluetooth to work!!!

Wifi works now that I have updated my kernel with no additional drivers. Which is weird, cuz I thought we had tried that earlier.

Bluetooth works with either @babam's or @Blaze's drivers That's nice.
Either way I go, however, in order to activate bluetooth, I must go to the terminal and run "sudo sh /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth start" and use the settings to connect. I will probably create a startup script to do this automatically.

But sound is still acting up with either driver (@babam's or @Blaze's). I thought I had it, and it worked that first time I booted, but I have since realized that it only works under special circumstances. When I tried it, I just went to youtube and played the first video I came to, and it made sound, but I didn't check thoroughly. Apparently, I just got lucky, as it thought it was playing through headphones, but it was the speaker. I can still get it to play right after a boot occasionally, but as soon as I adjust anything (volume, switch from headphones to speaker, whatever) it doesn't work. And I can't get it to recognize my actual speakers. At least now it shows that I have sound available, and it shows a device available, headphones, but no speakers.

KingJames wrote: ↑

17 Dec 2022, 05:28

Either way I go, however, in order to activate bluetooth, I must go to the terminal and run "sudo sh /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth start" and use the settings to connect. I will probably create a startup script to do this automatically.

add the cheatcode "bluetooth" to the APPEND line of your boot entry in <usb>/boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg

Thanks, @ncmprhnsbl! That fixed the bluetooth startup.

I think perhaps that I should have simply made a new post rather than editing my previous post, but unfortunately sound still doesn't work correctly. I was wondering if anyone has another solution to try.

HI KingJames.
Can you test your sound via update of kernel 6.1.3
and boot up Porteus in Always Fresh Mode?

No luck, same as before. In always fresh mode, no sound card is recognized at all. When booted via startx with @babam's driver, I get a faulty recognition of headphones.

KingJames, thanks for testing.
I updated sof-firmware-2.2.4-x86_64-1bl (got this package from Arch Linux)
Can you try kernel 6.2-rc3?

Thanks.

No, that didn't work either. I don't understand it I hate to waste your time if my laptop isn't supported by the Porteus architecture (however that works I'm still a newbie). Every other distro I have tried (granted, they were mostly popular ones with wide hardware support) seems to support everything, I may just have to switch to another one till I upgrade my laptop .
If you want to keep trying though, I'll keep trying too. I really like the whole Porteus concept and hate to ditch it (even temporarily).

Hi KingJames.
Well, another solutions:

1) In Porteus try this tweak if it does not help you can try these options: and not bad if you share this log and if no luck test sound.

2) As experiment you can try to boot up Nemesis viewtopic.php?f=137&t=10269
and install Sound Open Firmware via terminal test sound.

if sound does not work open terminal and run if sound does not work open terminal and run Отправлено спустя 1 день 18 часов 35 минут 28 секунд:
And not bad if you update kernel to 6.2-RC5 in Porteus 5.0 Porteus Kernel Builder (Пост Blaze #92604)

Hey all!

Sorry it has taken me so long to respond! It has been an extremely difficult and busy quarter of school.

Thanks so much for all y'all's help!!! I finally got sound, wifi, and bluetooth to work!!!

To recap for future reference:

I have an Acer Aspire 5 A517-52-350V. I put Porteus on a fat32 USB 3.2 gen1 drive and popped it in. Out of the box neither sound, wifi, nor bluetooth worked. However, after some trial and error, and a lot of help from the linux warriors in this forum, I now have a fully functional and portable linux daily driver

Wifi:
At first, I copied all the iwlwifi-QuZ files (none of the folders) from a different linux distro (MX Linux) (This was suggested in a different thread, but I can't find it) and created a .xzm module to put the files into /lib/firmware/ on startup. This fixed the problem of wifi. However, in the course of this thread, I updated my kernel to 6.1 (And later to 6.2 rc3, thanks to @Blaze in his post of 06 Dec 2022, 11:12 in this thread) and this ended up fixing wifi anyway, so I removed my custom .xzm module.

Bluetooth:
Although bluetooth isn't a dealbreaker for me, it is nice to have, so I finally got it to work with @blaze's Intel driver from his post of 06 Dec 2022, 21:43 in this thread. I also appended my boot cheatcode with "bluetooth" which automatically starts bluetooth on boot. Thanks to @ncmprhnsbl.

Sound:
This was the hardest one to get to work. Being at school, audio capability is a must, so I have been forced to revert to Windows or another linux distro (but this is the only one I have tryed that can boot quickly enough not to cause problems, like say, at the beginning of class). After many failed driver additions, it turned out to be a relatively simple command. I ran the first suggestion in @blaze's post immediately above this:
After su to root, Then I saved my porteus session to a module (to save all changes) and rebooted. And voila! Not only do my speakers work, but the audio jack does too!

Thanks again for the advise and time you've put into this thread. Apologies for my limited linux knowledge; I've learned a lot even just through this process!