Re: [LAU] Parorama T6

From: Marc Joliet <marcec@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Feb 14 2021 - 18:23:24 EET

Am Samstag, 13. Februar 2021, 17:42:18 CET schrieb Will Godfrey:
> However, I found that it starts up with a firmware update message, and apart
> from Note On, Note Off, Channel Pressure, none of the controls work, not
> even the ones designated for manually setting the others.
> On conacting nektar for support, it took over 2 days for them to tell me
> that I had to install the firmware.
> WTF!
> I've never heard of any hardware being effectively dead until you install
> firmware. What's more, so much for supporting Linux, the software to install
> the firmware is Windows or MacOs - nothing else.

I wonder if it's worth asking them to consider supporting LVFS (https://
fwupd.org/). Support for it seems to be growing at a healthy pace (e.g., Dell
and Logitech support it), and I think most major distributions install fwupd
by default now.

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Marc Joliet
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