Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

My first contribution to Linux

vkoskiv.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 92 posts

Re: My first contribution to Linux

#11

Post by matheusmoreira »

That was so cool!

I too went on this adventure with my laptop. Sadly I hit a wall while reverse engineering the ACPI stuff. With no logs, error messages or tools on the Windows side to intercept the ACPI events, I was at a loss but eventually gave up. Massive respect for managing it with your own laptop!!

I did manage to reverse engineer the keyboard's LEDs and drive them from user space! Studied the kernel to make a contribution but decided not to do so when I saw comments saying it is better to keep functionality in user space if at all possible.

Re: My first contribution to Linux

#12

Post by pankalog »

If I had no problem with devoting the time and money, contributing to the kernel (especially in a topic as obscure as making the extra buttons work on a 20-year-old laptop) is at the top of my bucket list, and I am definitely going to be doing it in the near future when my calendar clears up a bit.

Exquisite write-up and OP's simple writing has a motivating ring to it, and I'm now on the local used marketplace looking for pieces of tech like this :-)

Re: My first contribution to Linux

#16

Post by dmurray »

pankalog wrote: post #12

If I had no problem with devoting the time and money, contributing to the kernel (especially in a topic as obscure as making the extra buttons work on a 20-year-old laptop) is at the top of my bucket list, and I am definitely going to be doing it in the near future when my calendar clears up a bit. Exquisite write-up and OP's simple writing has a motivating ring to it, and I'm now on the local used marketplace lookin…

I feel most laptops still don't work completely out of the box with Linux, so you don't have to hunt for old hardware.

Maybe you won't find an issue as simple as fixing a button, though.

Re: My first contribution to Linux

#17

Post by vkoskiv »

indigodaddy wrote: post #14

I like your website design! Have you documented the design/setup anywhere?

Thanks! I haven't, but I probably should, since you're the second person asking about it. The site is built with Zola[0], and it's using the Radion[1] theme, with small modifications.

[0]: https://www.getzola.org/ [1]: https://github.com/micahkepe/radion

Re: My first contribution to Linux

#19

Post by jraph »

I've been procrastinating a trivial fix for years, thanks for having listed the commands to run to format and send the patch, that might help me find my way out from procrastination because this is exactly what's been blocking me.
Post reply on HN