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Part 8 of 14 of the iPad 5 (J71t) series in this repository; merge after #44.

Problem

The tablet's audio overrides worked against upstream's controls: new outputs started at almost no volume, and a global Bluetooth codec restriction overrode upstream's per-user radio codec policy. The keyboard button also took room in the right section of the bar.

Change

Start new outputs at 50% (saved volumes still win), empty the old global codec restriction so that upstream's per-user policy applies, move the keyboard button to the left section of the bar, and mark the shell helper scripts executable.

Testing

  • Hardware: iPad 5 Wi-Fi (J71t). Hands-on testing on 2026-11-11 with an integrated build of this series, made before the final failure-path fixes, covered the bar and audio controls.
  • 2026-11-12: no further hardware test of this change beyond the above.
  • Host: the Linux test suite passes at this branch's head (with Orchard at the top of its series).

Dependencies

Depends on #44.

This branch is stacked on the PRs it depends on and carries their commits; the change of this PR is its last commit, "Desktop: keep upstream audio controls and fit the tablet bar".

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Automatic rotation could not be overridden: there was no manual rotation
or lock in the menu.

Add omarchy-rotate with rotate and lock commands, menu entries for them,
and the release root wiring.

Assisted-by: LLM
The tablet had no lock on cover close, no dim before idle lock, and
suspend was offered even when the kernel could not complete it.

Lock on cover close, dim before the idle lock, disable hibernation, and
gate suspend on ipadlinux-suspend-ready, the kernel's readiness report.
Documented in docs/power-and-lock.md.

Assisted-by: LLM
The panel kept a fixed brightness; there was no automatic brightness
from the ambient-light sensor.

Add an optional, off-by-default automatic brightness daemon (generic IIO
lux or iio-sensor-proxy, no board calibration), a toggle in the Display
panel and its CLI.

Assisted-by: LLM
Orchard's guarded Mac current profile needs a device-side opt-in.

Opt J71t into the Mac current profile through
/etc/orchard/mac-usb-current, with a test.

Assisted-by: LLM
A chosen display scale was lost at the next login, and after a scale or
rotation change windows could end up off screen.

Add omarchy-display-scale and a Display panel picker, restore the saved
scale at login, and gather windows on screen with Super+Shift+G.

Assisted-by: LLM
On a 1.5 GB device the default zram size and an unbounded journal waste
memory.

Size zram to RAM, favour compressed swap (swappiness, page cluster,
watermarks), bound the runtime and system journal, and quiet the
console.

Assisted-by: LLM
A warm restart went on even when the GPU could not be quiesced.

Add the quiesce-gpu helper, which reports a failure to the restart
caller.

Assisted-by: LLM
With the G5P kernel driver the desktop can render on the GPU, but it
needs a Mesa build matched to the kernel's UAPI and must not select
hardware rendering on a kernel without it.

Package a private matched G5P Mesa (mesa-g5p-orchard) with a GPU probe,
select the hardware desktop session only after the probe succeeds, and
configure Firefox for hardware WebRender and, with the VA-API bridge,
hardware video decoding. The package builds Mesa 1f24e522a3e, whose two
lost-device fixes keep a refused submission's signal fences and report a
lost device's semaphore counters, so an application sees a lost device
instead of waiting forever on a fence. That commit is the head of the
OrchardLinux/mesa pull request from brkosebay:orchard-0.4-g5p, which
merges first.

Assisted-by: LLM
The tablet's audio overrides worked against upstream's controls: new
outputs started at almost no volume, and a global Bluetooth codec
restriction overrode upstream's per-user radio codec policy. The
keyboard button also took room in the right section of the bar.

Start new outputs at 50% (saved volumes still win), empty the old global
codec restriction so that upstream's per-user policy applies, move the
keyboard button to the left section of the bar, and mark the shell
helper scripts executable.

Assisted-by: LLM
Bring this branch onto current main, which now has the Smart Cover lock
and wake in omarchy-powerd.
Bring this branch onto current main, which reads the Smart Cover in
omarchy-powerd: closing it is a lock, opening it a wake. That replaces
this branch's cover-close and cover-suspend socket requests and their
test. A sleep after a cover lock goes through the same suspend
readiness check as Power and idle, which the merged test now covers.
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An earlier wording pass on this branch turned "owner" into
"maintainer" in lines that come from main: powerd is the one owner of
the screen, the lock request and sleep, and the shutdown menu test
quotes that. Restore main's wording in the state model doc, the
powerd comment and the test.

Assisted-by: LLM
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The sensor test's note on a hands-on check named no person but read as
a maintainer's report; call it a hands-on test. The tablet sensor
notes call the power daemon the sole owner of screen-off and sleep, as
the power state model does.

Assisted-by: LLM
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Orchard main now gives every installed system the Mac current
identity (0x1014) on its own, and nothing reads
/etc/orchard/mac-usb-current any more, so the notes on opting in with
that flag describe a switch that no longer exists.

Assisted-by: LLM
ipadlinux-suspend-ready first asked Orchard's device-feature helper
whether the board's feature table marked suspend as working. Orchard
does not ship that table: feature states describe a board, they do not
switch behaviour. Without the helper every sleep request was refused.

Decide from the kernel's own admission query on every board instead.
/sys/power/suspend_ready answers "ready" or names the first driver or
precheck that would refuse; a kernel without the query cannot show
that a suspend would be admitted, so sleep stays refused there, as do
an unreadable or malformed answer. The helper no longer reads the
board identity. Powerd, the session menu and systemd's direct suspend
guard keep calling the same helper.

Assisted-by: LLM
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This branch was stacked on the Mac current opt-in (OrchardLinux#39), which was
closed: Orchard main now uses the Mac current identity on every
installed system, and nothing reads /etc/orchard/mac-usb-current. Remove
the flag file and its test, so this branch and the ones after it do
not carry that change.

Assisted-by: LLM
quiesce-gpu ran only when Orchard's device-feature helper said the
board's warm_restart feature was working. Orchard does not ship that
helper, so the GPU was never quiesced. Decide from the mechanism
instead: when the G5P driver exposes its handover command, arm the
failure receipt and send td-kexec as before; without it there is
nothing to quiesce and the helper exits without arming anything.

Assisted-by: LLM
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