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What's your experience with the updated touchpad firmware?
Feels nearly perfect
65.93%
 60
Better, but still not issue-free
26.37%
 24
No real improvements
3.30%
 3
Firmware update failed
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Finally... The touchpad works great!
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#101
02-14-2022, 11:40 PM
(02-14-2022, 02:41 PM)UltraBlack_ Wrote: Hm, for me the updater fails at step 2 even though it passed step 1:

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Verify mismatch: type=f2, pass=e2, recieved=d2


How would I go about solving this?

You should shutdown(not reboot) after flashing step 1
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#102
02-15-2022, 12:11 PM
(02-14-2022, 11:40 PM)hellojack Wrote:
(02-14-2022, 02:41 PM)UltraBlack_ Wrote: Hm, for me the updater fails at step 2 even though it passed step 1:

Code:
Verify mismatch: type=f2, pass=e2, recieved=d2


How would I go about solving this?

You should shutdown(not reboot) after flashing step 1

Oh welp that fixed it. I expected rebooting to function as power cycling as well. Thank You!
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#103
05-31-2022, 09:17 AM
Much better. But still quite far behind consumer laptops.
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#104
05-31-2022, 11:52 AM
(05-31-2022, 09:17 AM)vatin Wrote: Much better. But still quite far behind consumer laptops.

Yeah, they have Trackpoint  Tongue
:wq
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#105
06-06-2022, 01:33 PM
Just to add to the thread for no other reason than to cheer.

New touchpad software works great Smile This improvement actually makes it usable.
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#106
08-22-2022, 02:24 AM
Having to use Manjaru for a few days, I can understand why some people think there's still room for improvement. Default Manjaru is very sluggish compared to the NetBSD installation I've been using. But it did take me a while to get the user settings to that point. So I expect with careful tuning of the touchpad parameters in Plasma on Manjaru, most everyone will much appreciate the way the touchpad works since the firmware update.
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#107
08-27-2022, 06:47 PM
firmware

just a new guy here, but simple commands seemed to fix the lag in my cursor for my pinebook pro running fedora. shakey on some basic concepts, but didnt want to risk bricking my tracpad and/or keyboard..following given flashing instructions to a tee, i booted my manjaro from sd for flashing (as im not totally comfortable with fedora or even cli's yet and manjaro steps were completely listed). Super easy, very happy, Thank you!!
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#108
09-28-2022, 06:38 PM (This post was last modified: 10-03-2022, 01:24 PM by JtR.)
Could it be, that I need to reinstall the firmware update after a reinstallation of Manjaro?
I have the feeling that my touchpad has gotten worse again. But I don't want to sacrifice my potentially limited amount of flashes without a reason. Smile
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#109
11-27-2022, 10:02 AM
Hello,  I  have the  SH61F83  chip.  did you ever get verification that it's the same IC and can do many  changes of  OS  distro's to it?
This would be good to know

   thanks
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#110
12-14-2022, 10:47 PM
(08-15-2021, 05:29 PM)bootsup Wrote: I installed the Manjaro package on my early 2021 PBP.

Step 1 and Step 2 were successful. However:

Code:
$ sudo pbp-fwupdate flash-kb firmware/default_ansi.hex

Please note that updating the firmware carries a small risk
of permanently disabling the trackpad and keyboard, effectively
bricking them.  Proceed at your own risk.

Press Ctrl+C within the next five seconds to cancel... 5 4 3 2 1

Segmentation fault

I have the same issue as this.  Has anyone found a solution yet?
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