From fb13378559cdc6a9ef3b23883bcbda2937dc1195 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Craig Jennings Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:46:19 -0500 Subject: fix(velox): trace the dead touchpad to its own connector, and repair two lost todo headings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The touchpad fault was an interrupt line that never fired: the device enumerated, hid-multitouch bound, and the handler sat correctly on amd_gpio pin 8, but the count stayed at zero across all 24 CPUs under active use and the i2c-HID reset timed out at every boot. A live USB reproduced it exactly, which ruled out software. The fix was the touchpad's own connector — the input-cover ribbon I reseated first fixed the phantom power button and left this untouched, and the 4-pin connector beside the silkscreen is GND and VCC only, so it could never have carried i2c. Both faults from the mainboard swap are now closed. Two task headings had been overwritten by inserts at the top of Open Work, and I recovered both verbatim from the commits that introduced them. One displaced task had ridden an archived parent into Resolved, so an open bug had been sitting outside Open Work for weeks. Filed the install placeholder passwords still live on this laptop as an [#A], graded on severity alone rather than the frequency matrix: full-disk encryption protected by a dictionary word does no work at all on a machine that travels. Corrected the ARCHSETUP_DIR line in the reinstall runbook. It carried a tilde on the right-hand side of an assignment, which zsh does not expand, so following it would have produced an ISO with the installer silently absent. --- working/velox-reinstall/velox-reinstall-runbook.org | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'working/velox-reinstall/velox-reinstall-runbook.org') diff --git a/working/velox-reinstall/velox-reinstall-runbook.org b/working/velox-reinstall/velox-reinstall-runbook.org index 02671e2..0c14946 100644 --- a/working/velox-reinstall/velox-reinstall-runbook.org +++ b/working/velox-reinstall/velox-reinstall-runbook.org @@ -22,8 +22,15 @@ Fallback ordering if the test finds a real gap: the microcode vendor-detection fix (archsetup, 2026-08-08) and was built without ARCHSETUP_DIR at all. #+begin_src sh - cd ~/code/archangel && sudo ARCHSETUP_DIR=~/code/archsetup ./build.sh + cd ~/code/archangel && sudo ARCHSETUP_DIR="$HOME/code/archsetup" ./build.sh #+end_src + Two traps in that one line, and either alone silently produces a bare ISO + with archsetup absent (archangel, 2026-08-20). The =VAR=value= form is + required because sudo's =env_reset= discards an exported variable. And + =$HOME= is required because zsh does not expand a tilde on the right-hand + side of an assignment — the earlier =ARCHSETUP_DIR=~/code/archsetup= here + passed the literal string. build.sh now warns and reports baked/not-baked + in its closing summary, so the failure is visible rather than silent. - [ ] build.sh fixes before the final rebuild (archangel repo): - rsync exclude for =.ai= (keeps =archsetup/.ai/private-design/= — the credential audit — off the portable USB stick). -- cgit v1.2.3