Slimbook laptop owners: I made a Bluefin DX image with full hardware support

Hey everyone!

I've been happily running Bluefin DX on my Slimbook laptop, the Spanish brand for Linux laptops, since May. I just ignored all the packages from Slimbook, I thought I didn't really need them.

Until I found out this week my GPU running at 98ºC, just about the temperature of boiling water, and fans at 0 RPM...

I tried to install the Slimbook kernel modules and ran into the classic akmod problem - Fedora Atomic distributions ship stub kernel-devel packages, so kernel modules can't build at install time.

I created bluefin-dx-slimbook to solve this. It's a custom Bluefin DX image with pre-built Slimbook kernel modules and all the Slimbook integration packages that my Evo 15 8845HS needs. Probably it will work for you if you have another of their models. Otherwise, you can use it as a base or an example for yours!

What works out of the box:

• QC71 fan control, lightbar, and performance modes
• YT6801 Ethernet controller support
• All Slimbook GNOME integration (manufacturer notifications, system info, etc.)

Installation is dead simple:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/serandel/bluefin-dx-slimbook:stable

Then just reboot and enjoy your atomic Fedora-43-based Universal-Blue-enhanced distro!

The image auto-rebuilds twice daily when either Bluefin or Slimbook packages update, so you get the latest of both worlds.

Why not just use the official uBlue akmods?

I opened https://github.com/ublue-os/akmods/issues/431 requesting Slimbook support. If that's accepted we can forget about custom images and just layer the metapackages from Slimbook in our systems.

But in the meantime this gets Slimbook owners up and running today.

GitHub: https://github.com/serandel/bluefin-dx-slimbook

Slimbook: https://slimbook.com/

Bluefin: https://projectbluefin.io

Happy to answer questions! 🚀