Drivers not installed

[ankhafizov]

Laptop model

MSI Creator-Z16P-B12UHST

EC firmware version

cat: /sys/devices/platform/msi-ec/fw_version: No such file or directory

Description

I have executed

(base) ankhafizov@ankhafizov-Creator-Z16P-B12UHST:~/msi-ec$ sudo make dkms-install
dkms --version >> /dev/null
mkdir -p /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/ankhafizov/msi-ec/dkms.conf /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/ankhafizov/msi-ec/Makefile /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/ankhafizov/msi-ec/msi-ec.c /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/ankhafizov/msi-ec/ec_memory_configuration.h /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
sed -e "s/@CFLGS@//" \
    -e "s/@VERSION@/0.08/" \
    -i /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08/dkms.conf
dkms add msi_ec/0.08
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/msi_ec/0.08/source -> /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
dkms build msi_ec/0.08
Sign command: /usr/bin/kmodsign
Signing key: /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der

Building module:
Cleaning build area...
make -j20 KERNELRELEASE=6.8.0-39-generic TARGET=6.8.0-39-generic CFLAGS_MODULE+=...
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/msi_ec/0.08/build/msi-ec.ko
Cleaning build area...
dkms install msi_ec/0.08

msi-ec.ko.zst:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/6.8.0-39-generic/updates/dkms/
depmod...
echo msi-ec > /etc/modules-load.d/msi-ec.conf

but

[ankhafizov]

[ankhafizov]

[mutchiko]

Check if your device is supported before attempting to install and use the driver. The list of supported devices can be found here

your device is not supported (yet): https://www.msi.com/Content-Creation/Creator-Z16P-B12UX/support?sub_product=Creator-Z16P-B12UHST#driver

support page doesn't show EC firmware, does this laptop even use EC?

[glpnk]

Hi @ankhafizov, after dkms-install module is not loaded automatically, and because module is upstreamed to kernel, you need to unload kernel built-in module and then load git version.

But because your device is not yet supported, you need to follow the guide from new model issue template to send your EC dump. Your device is WMI2 based, so you can use other WMI2 based device as reference

[ankhafizov]

Thank you all! Yes, device supports EC. At least cooler boost work with https://github.com/FaridZelli/ISW-Modern that is based on acpi_ec

[mutchiko]

if you want to help us support your laptop you can try following this guide : https://github.com/mutchiko/msi-ec/wiki/How-To-Get-Your-Device-Supported

[teackot]

@mutchiko that's a great guide, would you like to submit a PR to add it here? As a regular file though, I find the wiki less discoverable and more difficult to contribute to

[mutchiko]

@ankhafizov Are you still interested in adding support for your laptop? you can follow the updated guide and report back the addresses and the values they contain.

[a-chris]

hello everyone, I have the same issue since I've successfully installed msi-ec

~/msi-ec$ sudo make dkms-install
dkms --version >> /dev/null
mkdir -p /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/home/msi-ec/dkms.conf /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/home/msi-ec/Makefile /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/home/msi-ec/msi-ec.c /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/home/msi-ec/ec_memory_configuration.h /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
sed -e "s/@CFLGS@//" \
    -e "s/@VERSION@/0.08/" \
    -i /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08/dkms.conf
dkms add msi_ec/0.08
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/msi_ec/0.08/source -> /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
dkms build msi_ec/0.08
Sign command: /usr/bin/kmodsign
Signing key: /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der

Building module:
Cleaning build area...
make -j8 KERNELRELEASE=6.8.0-51-generic TARGET=6.8.0-51-generic CFLAGS_MODULE+=...
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/msi_ec/0.08/build/msi-ec.ko
Cleaning build area...
dkms install msi_ec/0.08

msi-ec.ko.zst:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/6.8.0-51-generic/updates/dkms/
depmod...
echo msi-ec > /etc/modules-load.d/msi-ec.conf

and running it again:

sudo make dkms-install
[sudo] password for home: 
dkms --version >> /dev/null
mkdir -p /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/home/msi-ec/dkms.conf /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/home/msi-ec/Makefile /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/home/msi-ec/msi-ec.c /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
cp /home/home/msi-ec/ec_memory_configuration.h /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08
sed -e "s/@CFLGS@//" \
    -e "s/@VERSION@/0.08/" \
    -i /usr/src/msi_ec-0.08/dkms.conf
dkms add msi_ec/0.08
Error! DKMS tree already contains: msi_ec-0.08
You cannot add the same module/version combo more than once.
make: *** [Makefile:52: dkms-install] Error 3

but /sys/devices/platform/msi-ec does not exist, even after rebooting.

cd /sys/devices/platform/msi-ec
-bash: cd: /sys/devices/platform/msi-ec: No such file or directory

I have a MSI PS63 Modern 8RC, firmware E16S1IMS.109 (latest available). Do you have clue why it's happening?

Let me know if I can give you more info

[glpnk]

@a-chris Hi, your device is not supported yet, follow this guide device_support_guide.md and open new issue

To get required info for opening issue, follow debug-mode paragraph

[a-chris]

I wasn’t able to enable debug mode to open the issue earlier, but today I managed to fix it by toggling Secure Boot on and then off again. This allowed me to finally enable debug-mode and create the issue for my device. Thanks!