I’d like to use opensuse as my daily driver but there are a few issues that prevent me from doing so, and I need your help if you please:
my keyboard’s backlight and Fn bindings are not supported. I found a workaroud that works in other distros but is says unsupported linux distribution in openSUSE. A very helpful man tried to make it work, but the output was swering about the 6.13 kernel being incompatible.
I have a few dead keys including left Ctrl. I usually use this remapper to make \ work as left CTRL. This is the only solution that was working on any distros I tried so far, except opensuse, where it doesn’t autoload after reboot.
Thanks in advance for your help!
I know it’s there, because Michal Szczepaniak - the Legend made the change after I asked him to do so. That’s how we went from unsupported distribution to swearing about kernel version. Would it work in openSUSE now? I’m asking because I’m can’t access the said laptop to try it out. Will do it asap anyway
But I mentioned in my post that is works in Wayland. This is the app I was using in other distros like fedora. The issue I mentioned is that it doesn’t autostart in opensuse. If this issue can be solved, there’s only the Clevo keyboard kernel patch that’s keeping me from installing openSUSE as my main OS. So the hope is alive
Thank you for reminding me about it I completely forgot to enable it myself before rebooting. User issue solved!
sudo systemctl enable --now input-remapper did wonders
Now I only have to wait until the guys will fix the keyboard patch (unless someone forces them to add 6.13 kernel fix today )
It’s not that a specific kernel is needed, but the patch doesn’t work on anything above 6.12 kernel. A pull request has been opened and I’m waiting for 6.13 to be supported by this patch, because tumbleweed runs on the latest 6.13 which gives me a fatal error when trying to apply the patch.
copy the patch to the directory where the Makefile is stored, go to that directory and use: patch -p1 -i 613.patch
After that, you can use the above guide with make clean && make etc.
If you use secure boot, you have to add the mok key as root:
mokutil --import /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
Enter the Password twice and on restart you should see the blue mok-screen and add the key as described here: Mok Example
Also you have to copy the tuxedo_keyboard.conf to /etc/modprobe.d and use it for configuration.
My fault, the clevo-keyboard uses an older tuxedo sources.
Updated a new patch.
First please update your system and reboot.
Delete the tuxedo or clevo directory.
So here is what I have done in my qemu Tumbleweed machine (output in German but that should not matter, commands are the same):
Using now the clevo-keyboard.git.
stephan@qemu-tumbleweed:~> git clone https://github.com/wessel-novacustom/clevo-keyboard.git
Klone nach 'clevo-keyboard'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 2684, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (875/875), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (216/216), done.
remote: Total 2684 (delta 719), reused 763 (delta 635), pack-reused 1809 (from 1)
Empfange Objekte: 100% (2684/2684), 749.02 KiB | 8.51 MiB/s, fertig.
Löse Unterschiede auf: 100% (1589/1589), fertig.
stephan@qemu-tumbleweed:~> cd clevo-keyboard/
stephan@qemu-tumbleweed:~/clevo-keyboard> wget https://www.krauttranslate.de/~sauerland/613.patch
--2025-02-21 10:45:45-- https://www.krauttranslate.de/~sauerland/613.patch
Auflösen des Hostnamens www.krauttranslate.de (www.krauttranslate.de)… 95.216.7.106, 2a01:4f9:2a:795::2
Verbindungsaufbau zu www.krauttranslate.de (www.krauttranslate.de)|95.216.7.106|:443 … verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, auf Antwort wird gewartet … 200 OK
Länge: 5638 (5,5K) [text/x-diff]
Wird in »613.patch« gespeichert.
613.patch 100%[===============================================================================================================================>] 5,51K --.-KB/s in 0s
2025-02-21 10:45:45 (2,62 GB/s) - »613.patch« gespeichert [5638/5638]
stephan@qemu-tumbleweed:~/clevo-keyboard> patch -p1 -i 613.patch
patching file Makefile
patching file src/tuxedo_keyboard.c
stephan@qemu-tumbleweed:~/clevo-keyboard> make clean && make
make -C /lib/modules/6.13.3-1-default/build M=/home/stephan/clevo-keyboard clean
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/src/linux-6.13.3-1-obj/x86_64/default“ wird betreten
make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/stephan/clevo-keyboard“ wird betreten
make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/stephan/clevo-keyboard“ wird verlassen
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/src/linux-6.13.3-1-obj/x86_64/default“ wird verlassen
make -C /lib/modules/6.13.3-1-default/build M=/home/stephan/clevo-keyboard modules
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/src/linux-6.13.3-1-obj/x86_64/default“ wird betreten
make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/stephan/clevo-keyboard“ wird betreten
CC [M] src/tuxedo_keyboard.o
CC [M] src/clevo_wmi.o
CC [M] src/clevo_acpi.o
CC [M] src/tuxedo_io/tuxedo_io.o
CC [M] src/uniwill_wmi.o
MODPOST Module.symvers
CC [M] src/tuxedo_keyboard.mod.o
CC [M] .module-common.o
LD [M] src/tuxedo_keyboard.ko
BTF [M] src/tuxedo_keyboard.ko
Skipping BTF generation for src/tuxedo_keyboard.ko due to unavailability of vmlinux
CC [M] src/clevo_wmi.mod.o
LD [M] src/clevo_wmi.ko
BTF [M] src/clevo_wmi.ko
Skipping BTF generation for src/clevo_wmi.ko due to unavailability of vmlinux
CC [M] src/clevo_acpi.mod.o
LD [M] src/clevo_acpi.ko
BTF [M] src/clevo_acpi.ko
Skipping BTF generation for src/clevo_acpi.ko due to unavailability of vmlinux
CC [M] src/tuxedo_io/tuxedo_io.mod.o
LD [M] src/tuxedo_io/tuxedo_io.ko
BTF [M] src/tuxedo_io/tuxedo_io.ko
Skipping BTF generation for src/tuxedo_io/tuxedo_io.ko due to unavailability of vmlinux
CC [M] src/uniwill_wmi.mod.o
LD [M] src/uniwill_wmi.ko
BTF [M] src/uniwill_wmi.ko
Skipping BTF generation for src/uniwill_wmi.ko due to unavailability of vmlinux
make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/stephan/clevo-keyboard“ wird verlassen
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/src/linux-6.13.3-1-obj/x86_64/default“ wird verlassen
stephan@qemu-tumbleweed:~/clevo-keyboard> make clean
make -C /lib/modules/6.13.3-1-default/build M=/home/stephan/clevo-keyboard clean
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/src/linux-6.13.3-1-obj/x86_64/default“ wird betreten
make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/stephan/clevo-keyboard“ wird betreten
CLEAN Module.symvers
make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/stephan/clevo-keyboard“ wird verlassen
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/src/linux-6.13.3-1-obj/x86_64/default“ wird verlassen
stephan@qemu-tumbleweed:~/clevo-keyboard> sudo make dkmsinstall
Wir gehen davon aus, dass der lokale Systemadministrator Ihnen die
Regeln erklärt hat. Normalerweise läuft es auf drei Regeln hinaus:
#1) Respektieren Sie die Privatsphäre anderer.
#2) Denken Sie nach, bevor Sie tippen.
#3) Mit großer Macht kommt große Verantwortung.
Das eingegebene Passwort ist aus Sicherheitsgründen nicht sichtbar.
[sudo] Passwort für root:
cp -R . /usr/src/tuxedo-keyboard-3.2.10
dkms install -m tuxedo-keyboard -v 3.2.10
Sign command: /lib/modules/6.13.3-1-default/build/scripts/sign-file
Signing key: /var/lib/dkms/mok.key
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
Certificate or key are missing, generating self signed certificate for MOK...
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.10/source -> /usr/src/tuxedo-keyboard-3.2.10
Cleaning build area... done.
Building module(s)... done.
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.10/build/src/tuxedo_keyboard.ko
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.10/build/src/clevo_wmi.ko
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.10/build/src/clevo_acpi.ko
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.10/build/src/tuxedo_io/tuxedo_io.ko
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/tuxedo-keyboard/3.2.10/build/src/uniwill_wmi.ko
Cleaning build area... done.
Installing /lib/modules/6.13.3-1-default/updates/tuxedo_keyboard.ko.zst
Installing /lib/modules/6.13.3-1-default/updates/clevo_wmi.ko.zst
Installing /lib/modules/6.13.3-1-default/updates/clevo_acpi.ko.zst
Installing /lib/modules/6.13.3-1-default/updates/tuxedo_io.ko.zst
Installing /lib/modules/6.13.3-1-default/updates/uniwill_wmi.ko.zst
Running depmod... done.
stephan@qemu-tumbleweed:~/clevo-keyboard>
