Caleb’s EliteBook

My laptop is an HP EliteBook 840 G2 with 8 GB RAM running Fedora Workstation. I got it from eBay in November 2025 at the suggestion of Gideon “Gnafu the Great” Mayhak, one of the support staff at my phone company, JMP.chat. The laptop is remarkably sturdy, and there’s plenty of memory for my use case: Web browsing, email, chat, and video conferencing, and a bit of Rust programming.

The manual for the EliteBook can be found on the HP website.

SSH

To get SSH to work, you may need to run the following command first.

echo UPDATESTARTUPTTY | gpg-connect-agent

Everything else should be covered by your dotfiles.

Touchpad

Touchpad fails after waking from suspend. I found a solution for it.

sudo rmmod i2c_i801 && sudo modprobe i2c_i801

To make this command run automatically, place the following in /lib/systemd/system-sleep/restart-touchpad.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [[ $1 == post ]]; then
    sudo rmmod  i2c_hid_acpi
    sudo modprobe i2c_hid_acpi
fi

Make sure to make the script executable.

sudo chmod +x /lib/systemd/system-sleep/restart-touchpad

IRPC

Install Internet Relay PictoChat from source.

1. Download Go.
2. Follow the installation instructions.
3. Install Fyne dependencies using Fyne’s installation instructions.
4. git clone https://codeberg.org/irpc/irpc-client; cd irpc-client
5. go install codeberg.org/irpc/irpc-client@latest