Finding/Installing Drivers: Bluetooth and Battery percentage?

[Member aluthier]

Hey guys, I installed AntiX on a Dell Venue 8 Pro. Everything but the Bluetooth and the battery life percentage works.

What’s the best way to search for drivers?
Is there a .deb file for a battery/charging percentage package that people use for laptops or tablets?

Thanks!

[Member aluthier]

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I know there is a linux compatible driver, because I originally tried live booting Ubuntu but it was horribly slow in comparison to the insanely fast AntiX on this little guy. How do y’all solve missing driver issues?

[Moderator caprea]

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Which desktop are you using? If it is the default rox-icewm, in the
menu > settings > preferences > TaskBar > TaskBarShowApmAuto should be selected
After you have done this setting you have to go again to
menu > settings > preferences
and click on the “Save changes” button, also you have to restart icewm to let the changes take effect.

For bluetooth did you try
menu > applications > settings > bluetooth manager

If you want to use bluetooth for audio you have to install pulseaudio
Best to do this with the package installer from control-centre

If your bluetooth device is not recognized at all you should give us more information about your hardware.
Post the output from terminal of
inxi -zv8

Edit: There’s also the possibility to let the conky show the battery status.
control-centre > Surface > System Monitor (conky)
Scroll down to the the last two lines. They are responsible for battery status.
Remove the # in front of one of the two lines and save the file when closing.
You have to test which one of the two works for you or you prefer.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by caprea.

[Member aluthier]

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The Bluetooth manager acts like it’s going to open, but nothing happens. Here is the info from the inxi dump

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp 
  root=UUID=78f6253d-cf94-4365-a2d4-0c843f067d2b ro quiet 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.0 vt: 7 dm: N/A 
  Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Venue 8 Pro 3845 v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: DellInc. type: 8 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 03JYKK v: A01 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A07 
  date: 02/27/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: TIBT charge: N/A condition: N/A volts: N/A min: 3.8 
  model: DELL BLY Battery type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Unknown 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 886.5 MiB used: 727.8 MiB (82.1%) 
  RAM Report: 
  permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Atom Z3735G bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Silvermont family: 6 model-id: 37 (55) stepping: 8 microcode: 838 
  cache: L2: 1024 KiB bogomips: 10666 
  Speed: 1833 MHz min/max: 500/1833 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1833 2: 1834 
  3: 921 4: 1352 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts 
  clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb 
  ept erms est flexpriority fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce 
  md_clear mmx monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe 
  pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti rdrand rdtscp rep_good 
  sep smep ss sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow 
  tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer tsc_known_freq tsc_reliable vme vmx vnmi 
  vpid xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display 
  vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0f31 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x800 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 338x211mm (13.3x8.3") 
  s-diag: 398mm (15.7") 
  Monitor-1: DSI-1 res: 1280x800 hz: 60 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (BYT) v: 4.2 Mesa 20.3.5 
  compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: bytcr-rt5640 driver: bytcr-rt5640 
  message: bus/chip ids unavailable 
  Device-2: Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio driver: HdmiLpeAudio 
  message: bus/chip ids unavailable 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Message: No device data found. 
  IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 148.21 GiB used: 10.46 GiB (7.1%) 
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1 maj-min: 179:24 model: SD128 size: 119.08 GiB 
  block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> 
  scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown smartctl error. Unable to generate data. 
  ID-2: /dev/mmcblk2 maj-min: 179:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: HBG4e 
  size: 29.12 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD 
  serial: <filter> rev: 0x7 scheme: GPT 
  SMART Message: Unknown smartctl error. Unable to generate data. 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 27.49 GiB size: 26.89 GiB (97.82%) 
  used: 10.45 GiB (38.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk2p2 maj-min: 179:2 
  label: rootantiX21 uuid: 78f6253d-cf94-4365-a2d4-0c843f067d2b 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) 
  used: 302 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/mmcblk2p1 maj-min: 179:1 
  label: EFI System uuid: BB2C-8E6D 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.37 GiB used: 7.5 MiB (0.5%) 
  priority: -2 dev: /dev/mmcblk2p3 maj-min: 179:3 label: swapantiX 
  uuid: daab834c-a6bc-48b1-b824-027d2b46ed0f 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1p1 maj-min: 179:25 size: 119.08 GiB fs: ntfs 
  label: New Volume uuid: BA203F6A203F2D2F 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 1-2:2 info: Terminus Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 1a40:0101 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-2.1:3 info: Dell Dell KB216 Wired Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 413c:2113 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 1-2.2:4 info: SHARKOON 2.4G Mouse type: Mouse 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 1ea7:0064 class-ID: 0301 
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 3.0 
  speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 1601 lib: 763 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bullseye bullseye main nosystemd nonfree
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.mx.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.mx.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/megasync.list 
  1: deb https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/Debian_testing/ ./
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 181 
  1: cpu: 96.0% command: chromium pid: 2690 mem: 127.3 MiB (14.3%) 
  2: cpu: 6.4% command: chromium pid: 2305 mem: 79.6 MiB (8.9%) 
  3: cpu: 6.2% command: chromium pid: 2259 mem: 163.2 MiB (18.4%) 
  4: cpu: 4.4% command: xorg pid: 1515 mem: 32.6 MiB (3.6%) 
  5: cpu: 4.0% command: blueman-applet started by: python3 pid: 3025 
  mem: 49.2 MiB (5.5%) 
  Memory top: 5 of 181 
  1: mem: 163.2 MiB (18.4%) command: chromium pid: 2259 cpu: 6.2% 
  2: mem: 133.2 MiB (15.0%) command: chromium pid: 2309 cpu: 2.2% 
  3: mem: 127.3 MiB (14.3%) command: chromium pid: 2690 cpu: 96.0% 
  4: mem: 118.0 MiB (13.3%) command: chromium pid: 2579 cpu: 2.3% 
  5: mem: 79.6 MiB (8.9%) command: chromium pid: 2305 cpu: 6.4% 
Info:
  Processes: 181 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 1 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 
  default: 5 tool: service Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: Bash 
  v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06

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