If you wonder which software comes with your Excalibur device, this tutorial is for you, we will show you which specific packages the Excalibur devices comes with GNU/Linux.
The main packages for the Excalibur devices are: slimbook-meta-common y slimbook-meta-excalibur
If you've reinstalled your computer and still don't have our repositories installed, we explain it in this other tutorial: how to add Slimbook repository.
SLIMBOOK-META-COMMON
This software is the common packages for all the Slimbook devices, this includes specifically:
libslimbook: This packages is the core library for Slimbook applications.
python-slimbook: This package includes a library for python bindings of libslimbook.
slimbook-service: This package includes the Slimbook Service application, it allows the user to receive Slimbook notifications in your system, these notifications can be from the system itself such the work modes changing, touchpad enabled toggling or enabling airplane mode, or directly for Slimbook like BIOS and EC updates.
SLIMBOOK-META-EXCALIBUR
This software is the specific package for this laptop, it includes:
slimbook-meta-common: This package includes the common meta-package for all the Slimbook devices.
slimbook-grub-amdiommu-fix: This package includes a patch to addd amd_iommu=off parameter to GRUB, this mitigates the problems when suspending the device in AI9 models.
slimbook-grub-fix-psr: This package includes a patch to add the amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x610 parameter to GRUB, this allows to disable AMD's Panel Self Refresh v1, Panel Self Refresh SU y Panel Replay.
If you use the GNOME or KDE Plasma desktop environments, we have some packages for these environments: slimbook-meta-gnome y slimbook-meta-plasma
SLIMBOOK-META-GNOME
This software is the specific package for GNOME if you use said desktop environment:
slimbook-meta-common: This package includes the common meta-package for all the Slimbook devices.
gnome-shell-extension-appindicator: This package includes the GNOME interface extension to show Slimbook Service as an icon tray.
gnome-shell-extension-prefs: This package includes a tool to enable/disable extensions for GNOME.
SLIMBOOK-META-PLASMA
This software is the specific package for KDE Plasma if you use said desktop environment:
slimbook-meta-common: This package includes the common meta-package for all the Slimbook devices.
That's all folks.
