nixos-hardware/purism/librem/13v3

This config is for Librem 13v3 and 15v3 Laptops from Purism.

Librem comes with Coreboot + SeaBIOS payload. That means EFI boot is not possible. Use fdisk to partition hard drive, and GRUB as a bootloader:

{
  boot.loader.grub = {
    enable = true;
    device = "/dev/sda";
    version = 2;
  };
}

Adding a PureOS partition to the GRUB menu

I first assume that boot.loader.grub.useOSProber = true; should be sufficient. However GRUB was not able to identify the disks correctly and it took me several reinstallation till setting boot.loader.grub.fsIdentifier= "provided"; and using boot.loader.grub.extraEntries allowed me to dual boot NixOS and PureOS.

Be aware that each time the PureOS updates the /boot/grub/grub.cfg you will be unable to boot into NixOS unless you patch grub.cfg manually again.

Therefore: If you want to be able to boot into your old PureOS distribution add the following lines, assuming that you have a separate boot partition Adapt linux version and the UUID to your disk!!

{
  boot.loader.grub.useOSProber = false;
  boot.loader.grub.fsIdentifier= "provided";
  boot.loader.grub.extraEntries = ''
  menuentry "PureOS with linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 on /dev/sdb2 " {
      insmod gzio
      if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
      insmod part_msdos
      insmod ext2
      set root='hd0,msdos1'
      if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1  ef7a4dcf-8cc4-4870-b860-3ed64906f9b9
      else
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ef7a4dcf-8cc4-4870-b860-3ed64906f9b9
      fi
      linux   /vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-amd64 root=UUID=43899f26-04f2-4ccb-b52a-c9441f1a1a6d ro  quiet splash resume=UUID=923317f8-d8bb-4e1f-bca3-f36a556de609 # $vt_handoff
      initrd  /initrd.img-4.19.0-5-amd64
  };
}

Automatically lock the desktop when removing the librem key

The instructions to lock the screen after unplugging the Librem Key don't work under NixOS.

This snippet works on my Librem 15v3 laptop running KDE without wayland and is using the xlock from the package xlockmore.

{ pkgs, services , systemd, ... }:
let
  libremScreenSaver = pkgs.writeScriptBin "libremScreenSaver" ''
  #!${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash
  user=`ps aux | egrep "start_kdeinit|gdm-(wayland|x)-session"| head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}'`
  if [ -n "$user" ]; then
    sudo -u $user DISPLAY=:0 xlock 2>&1 | logger lockScreen for user $user
  else
    logger libremScreenSaver failed to find a user. Not running KDE?
  fi
  '';

in {
  services.udev.path = [ pkgs.procps pkgs.logger pkgs.gawk pkgs.xlockmore ];
  services.udev.extraRules = ''
    ACTION=="remove", ENV{PRODUCT}=="316d/4c4b/101" RUN+="${pkgs.systemd}/bin/systemctl --no-block start lockScreen@%k.service"
  '';
  systemd.services."lockScreen@" = {
    bindsTo = [ "dev-%i.device"] ;
    path = [ pkgs.procps pkgs.logger pkgs.sudo pkgs.xlockmore pkgs.gawk ] ;
    serviceConfig = {
        Type = "oneshot"; # was simple
        ExecStart = "${libremScreenSaver}/bin/libremScreenSaver %I";
    };
  };
}