| 19 Oct 2021 |
 iamagrilledguru | Ok. I'll do this one key at a time then :) | 22:33:33 |
| iamagrilledguru | How do I get secureboot ? | 22:33:52 |
| iamagrilledguru | I saw a package that adds the mok key | 22:34:08 |
 qzed | Yeah, essentially set up a bootloader with SHIM, then install the package to get the MOK with which we sign the Surface kernel with. | 22:34:45 |
| iamagrilledguru | Is it as simple as installing it ? | 22:34:48 |
| qzed | Depends on the distro | 22:34:53 |
| iamagrilledguru | Setup a bootloader with shim ? how ? | 22:35:14 |
| iamagrilledguru | (Debian) | 22:35:18 |
| iamagrilledguru | What is signed and checked ? The kernel and the initrd ? | 22:36:03 |
| qzed | I think debian enables secureboot by default, so it should have set that up for you already. You can try that by booting into the distro kernel with secureboot enabled. | 22:36:57 |
| qzed | If that works you'll just have to install the package and follow the instructions it prints when installing. | 22:37:14 |
| qzed | The kernel is singed and checked. I don't think the initrd is. | 22:37:54 |
| iamagrilledguru | Thanks | 22:41:11 |
| iamagrilledguru | As it is my debian does not boot with secureboot | 22:41:38 |
| iamagrilledguru | I want to use my surface as a whiteboard. What do I need to get the pen working ? | 22:43:03 |
| qzed | There's some documentation on secure boot with SHIM here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot#shim | 22:43:30 |
| qzed | Debian probably also has some documentation on that | 22:43:40 |
| qzed | In reply to @iamagrilledguru:matrix.org
I want to use my surface as a whiteboard. What do I need to get the pen working ? What device do you have? | 22:43:50 |
| qzed | * There's some documentation on secure boot with SHIM here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot#shim | 22:45:52 |
| iamagrilledguru | Surface go | 22:46:00 |
| qzed | IIRC the touchscreen/digitizer is a fairly standard HID device on that series. So it should work out of the box. Application support on Linux is another thing though... | 22:47:54 |
| qzed | Some applications treat the pen and touchscreen as mouse in a fallback way. | 22:48:24 |
| qzed | * Some applications treat the pen and touchscreen as mouse in a fallback way. | 22:48:34 |
| iamagrilledguru | I was considering open board | 22:53:36 |
| iamagrilledguru | If I want a good expérience i need an app that uses wacom library and then use the one provided by surface linux ? | 22:54:43 |
| qzed | What wacom library? As far as I know the kernel has standard input events for pens, I don't think there should be any library necessary. | 22:56:36 |
| iamagrilledguru | I saw a patched wacom library in the surface linux repo and my pen is a wscom one. So I guessed that was needed for pression | 22:59:35 |
| qzed | Ah, that's only necessary to help Gnome detect what's a built-in pen display and what's an external pen tablet. It's pretty much only used for rotating the pen and touch input with the screen when rotating the device. | 23:00:57 |
| qzed | So it's only for detection, it doesn't handle any input at all. | 23:01:30 |
| iamagrilledguru | Noted. Thanks | 23:07:02 |
