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TL;DR: I've got a 2019 Macbook Pro, installed Linux Mint and I can't use the touchbar.

$ cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name
MacBookPro16,1

Decided to install Linux Mint, with the help of this awesome website: https://t2linux.org/

My problem is I nuked the whole disk and the osx installation, so every time the instructions require to login in osx, I simply can't.

I was able to download the wifi firmware from here: https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/Apple-Firmware So, wifi works fine.

But touchbar doesn't work:

$ journalctl -k --grep=touchbar

Jun 15 21:51:28 apollo kernel: apple-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.0007: input: USB HID v1.01 Keyboard [Apple Inc. Touch Bar Display] on usb-bce-vhci-6/input0
Jun 15 21:51:28 apollo kernel: apple-touchbar 0003:05AC:8102.0008: : USB HID v1.01 Device [Apple Inc. Touch Bar Backlight] on usb-bce-vhci-7/input0
Jun 15 21:51:28 apollo kernel: apple-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.0007: tb: Failed to set touch bar mode to 2 (-110)
Jun 15 21:51:35 apollo kernel: apple-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.0007: tb: Failed to set touch bar mode to 1 

If I do these steps:

$ sudo modprobe -r apple-touchbar
$ sudo modprobe apple-touchbar

Then I got:

$ sudo journalctl -k --grep=touchbar

Jun 15 23:20:33 apollo kernel: apple-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.0007: tb: Failed to set touch bar mode to 3 (-110)
Jun 15 23:20:33 apollo kernel: apple-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.0007: tb: Touchbar deactivated
Jun 15 23:20:36 apollo kernel: apple-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.0007: input: USB HID v1.01 Keyboard [Apple Inc. Touch Bar Display] on usb-bce-vhci-6/input0
Jun 15 23:20:36 apollo kernel: apple-touchbar 0003:05AC:8102.0008: : USB HID v1.01 Device [Apple Inc. Touch Bar Backlight] on usb-bce-vhci-7/input0
Jun 15 23:20:41 apollo kernel: apple-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.0007: tb: Failed to set touch bar mode to 2 (-110)
Jun 15 23:25:25 apollo kernel: apple-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.0007: tb: Failed to set touch bar mode to 2 (-110)
Jun 15 23:25:42 apollo kernel: apple-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.0007: tb: Failed to set touch bar mode to 2 (-110)

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

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