Re: [LAU] Parorama T6

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 17:23:24 +0100
Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de> wrote:

>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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I might suggest it, but I get the feeling they won't be interested.

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