- Install ite8291r3-ctl
- Follow instructions to allow usb user space access
- Download xmg-neo-rgb-kbd-lights
- Run xmg-neo-rgb-kbd-lights
I had really bad touch screen glitches in my phone, and I was convinced it was a hardware issue. Well, turns out that in addition to the ROM (I run LineageOS), there is also a separate Kernel. Updating to FrancoKernel seemed to have fixed it!
This is not the first time I had a problem with software that I wasn’t even aware of: In the past, I had a phone where I had to update the radio firmware, as the new SIM card I got was constantly crashing…
My old Oppo Find 7 served me really well for 5 years. But Oppo stopped updating Android a long time ago, so I switched to Omni ROM. But updates stopped a year ago as well, and I had to fight with more and more demanding applications.
So I switched to another China-Phone, Xiaomi Pocophone F1. I gave MIUI 10 a try, but I decided to switch for the following reasons:
- No interest in the full stack of Google applications
- Need the ability to modify my hosts file for global ad blocking
- Nontransparent permission management
So here are the steps I took to install Lineage OS on the phone instead:
- Unlock Bootloader
- Install TWRM (watch out: As soon as you boot back to MIUI, it will be removed!)
- Install Vendor Firmware (watch out! Only 9.x works, not 10.x)
- Install Lineage OS
- Install Open GApps Pico
- Install Magisk (also provides root, SuperSU did not work)
- Download your favorite ad-blocking hosts file. Use TWRM and mount system, then copy the file to /system/etc.
Biggest downside of using Lineage: Fortnite does not work any more!
Photo by Matthew Kalapuch on Unsplash
My performance when playing video has been bad, especially with multiple screens. This guide on installing Chrome with hardware acceleration seems to work.
… does not work, unless you install libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer. This is just a note to myself.
Try this with Windows: Switching to a new laptop by swapping the harddrive works flawless with Linux
I just love the fact that you can just take a hard drive with Linux out of one computer, put it in another one, and it just works. Try that with Windows! (I tried a few times of the years, always a disaster).
To be fair, Macs seem to be pretty good in migrating from one computer to another, as I have heard.
Well, I finally managed to fix the problem. For whatever reason, the keyboard layout database got corrupted, and there is no straightforward way to fix it (e.g. by reinstalling a package). So instead I dumped the following directory: /etc/X11/xkb and replaced it with the same directory from a clean Ubuntu installation. That did the trick.
I was lucky that I had a fresh install lying around on another computer, but what a pain in the neck.