Pentoo on SteamDeck

Pentoo on Steam Deck Installation Notes If using Rufus, remember to use “MBR”, not “GPT” scheme (SteamDeck limitation, not Pentoo) Display Orientations Change screen orientation in current boot: xrandr -o right Orient touch screen in current boot: xinput set-prop "FTS3528:00 2808:1015" --type=float "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1 Look for FTS3528:00, for me it was the last item under “Virtual core pointer” Core Transformation explained https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/InputCoordinateTransformation ...

April 3, 2023 · 1 min · 103 words · Matt Conway

SteamOS for Conferencing

Description These are steps taken to help enable a SteamDeck for use in conferencing where a modern web browser, Zoom, and a Smart Card are required. Setup user password If no user level password has been set yet, configure one now. By default, there is no password passwd https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tdggrm/comment/i0kaskz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Switch Firefox to community maintained Firefox as provided in SteamOS is locked down and limited on execution. For enabling use with Smart Card libraries, a version installed and managed at the OS level (outside of a jail or sandbox) is required. Allow Read-Write filesystem Set filesystem to read-write so packages can be installed sudo steamos-readonly disable https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/t6w9at/how_to_get_rid_of_read_only_filesystem_folders/ ...

April 3, 2023 · 2 min · 365 words · Matt Conway

Update BusPirate v3b

I want to use OpenOCD but it is unsupported on my version of BusPirate. http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate#JTAG_and_OpenOCD I’m running 5.10 which is disabled for OpenOCD. https://stackoverflow.com/a/61823037 sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 Follow Build instructions http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Compile_the_Bus_Pirate_firmware My bootloader is 4.3 which is within version 4.x so I don’t need to update bootloader cd Bus_Pirate/package/BPv3-firmware/ chmod +x (if you didn’t install i386 arch you’ll get command not found error message, file pirate-loader_lnx to see it’s a i386 file) ...

April 3, 2023 · 1 min · 116 words · Matt Conway