Ian Eure <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Noé, > > Noé Lopez via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System > distribution." <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> I recently borrowed a Thinkpad Gen9 X1 from the Guix Foundation >> (thanks!). >> >> I was expecting the nonfree wifi, which wouldn’t be an >> issue. But I was >> quite surprised at the nonfree audio! >> >> Any chance I can get some music on it? I suppose the jack port >> will not >> function, would it work with some usb C headphones, or is it a >> “you >> don’t have a sound card” kind of situation? > > Since the X1 Carbon 7th Gen, these laptops have required Sound > Open Firmware (sof-firmware) for correctly functioning audio. An > increasing number of Intel laptops are also going this route. > > My understanding is that, while the firmware source itself is > Free, it’s not usable in practice because the firmware binary must > be signed with a hardware vendor key to be loaded. As such, only > precompiled firmware supplied by Intel works. > > > I suppose it’s better than opaque blobs with no source, but it’s > equally frustrating, and since a usable binary cannot be > bootstrapped from source, it can’t be included in Guix. >
Terrible! I suppose even if you could reproduce the binary from source and reuse the signature, you wouldn’t really have the freedom to modify. > > The binary firmware is available in some third-party channels, if > the the situation is tolerable to you. Otherwise, as Ricardo > suggests, USB-connected audio peripherals are an alternate > approach. > > -- Ian Hi Ian and Ricardo, Thank you for your answers. I guess I’ll get some earbuds, or listen to music with another device. Have a nice day, Noé
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