USB-C keyboards currently required on M2 minis and come say hello

Posted Jul 2, 2025 21:32 UTC (Wed) by noisycoil (subscriber, #178152)
Parent article: Debian looking for testers with Apple M1/M2 machines

Hi all!

M2 mini users, please beware of https://salsa.debian.org/bananas-team/wip/debian-asahi-im...: due to an upstream bug, a USB-C keyboard (or USB-A keyboard connected via USB-C adapter) is currently required to install the console version on these platforms. The others are unaffected, as far as we know.

Feel free to drop by #debian-bananas on IRC/Matrix if you want to help or say hello. Cheers!

USB-C keyboards currently required on M2 minis and come say hello

Posted Jul 3, 2025 12:17 UTC (Thu) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link] (1 responses)

I had Asahi running on an M1 mac mini and for some reason my Lenovo Thinkpad keyboard would not work in USB KVM. It did work on macOS .. well, it worked in Linux at first and then it stopped working....

Linux on M CPUs is still a WIP. Buyers beware.

USB-C keyboards currently required on M2 minis and come say hello

Posted Jul 3, 2025 12:36 UTC (Thu) by jannex (subscriber, #43525) [Link]

The broken Lenovo Thinkpad keyboard USB keyboard is regression in the Kernel. The support for For ACPI power state switching on some lenovo tablet devices introduced a hard runtime dependency on ACPI.
The issue is fixed in asahi downstream kernel but I need get a fix upstream. Two approaches failed so far.