Notes for non-standard Linux distributions

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This page contains informations useful to get non-standard or niche Distros to work.

Audio

alsa-ucm2 for Chromebooks

You need custon alsa-ucm2 configs that arent available upstream

You can get them hereopen in new window

If your distro isnt FHS-compliant, you can specify the ucm location via an enviromental variable

export ALSA_CONFIG_UCM2 = "/share/alsa/ucm2";

Audio setup modprobes

You can find the right modprobe configs by browsing the audio scriptopen in new window

Keyboard mapping

libinput configuration

Put this in /etc/libinput/local-overrides.quirks: (Sourceopen in new window)

[keyd virtual keyboard]
MatchName=keyd virtual keyboard
AttrKeyboardIntegration=internal
ModelTabletModeNoSuspend=1

keyd keymap

Install keyd (Github)open in new window

A configuration file can be accuired with cros-keyboard-mapopen in new window. Some special cases have configs in the configs folder. For all other devices use cros-keyboard-map.py.