hi12: SingleOS and sick of Windows – What are my options?

[Christian Nobis]

Hi everyone,

I have a single-OS Chuwi hi12 here but I’m not using it frequently because I got only luck installing Arch Linux some time ago without Wireless, Touchscreen, Sound…

So I stuck with Windows 10 but…. I’m not the windows type of guy and so the tablet is laying around and not really used.

But before I try installing Linux again I tried some current Live-ISO-Images from USB-Stick and I wonder if it should be possible to get around the Problems I had:

Fedora Workstation: 

• No Wireless
• No sound
• No touchscreen

Manjaro KDE

• Did not boot at all

Android x86 (7.1 Beta)

• Wireless OK
• No touchscreen
• No sound

Anybody hat Luck getting everything working? (Using external USB Soundcard/Network-Card is not an Option) Another option would be to sell the hi12 and get another Tablet.

[Anonymous]

It’s not possible because CHUWI does not release source code.

If you can’t hack drivers you won’t succeed.

[Christian Nobis]

Sad to hear, so maybe my Option is to sell the tablet on ebay and get another one ;(

So my plans for the next weekend:

• Install Arch-Linux with newest Kernel to an USB-Stick
• last try to get wireless, sound and maybe touch working in an not-live-environment using information found on the net
• if not succeeded: doing dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda (or similar) on windows-installation
• reinstall fresh windows
• make ebay-offer 😉

[Brad]

You could try installing using Manjaro Architect to install onto a USB destination drive (prob a better choice than installing on the HD/SSD on the first attempt to see if it works correctly).  Manjaro Architect does not require booting into an graphical USB “live” environment. 
When you run it, choose the very latest stable Kernel release.
Manjaro Architect Info and Install instructions: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/installation-with-manjaro-architect-iso/20429
Manjaro Architect ISO download (472MB): https://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarolinux/files/release/17.0.4/xfce/manjaro-xfce-17.0.4-stable-x86_64.iso

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[Christian Nobis]

Thanks brad for the Manjaro Architect-tipp. But like Manjaro itself it did not even boot. I think the problem could be related to grub going into graphical-mode and maybe i could solve it by altering grub-config in the iso….

But like I said: My last option is to sell the tablet so for privacy-reasons it is important for me to “dd” the emmc out before selling, so as of now I used the current arch-install-iso and was able to get wireless working using iw/wpa_supplicant (kernel 4.12) so currently I’m about to install Arch to the emmc but had to pause for an video-evening with my wife 😉

When Arch is up and running, I’ll be trying out the other parts of my problem-list, maybe waiting for 4.13 getting into stable-repos or installing it from testing if there are still problems but for now I’m happy that I could use the wifi-chip.

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