Linux Mint on Chuwi Hi10 & Hi12 Tablets

[Jerror]

Sure, I’ll give that a try! For audio I think I’ll need a driver, but I’m still hoping for backlight control and battery info. So far I’ve only been able to adjust software gamma levels with xrandr –brightness; xbacklight doesn’t work, and ddccontrol doesn’t work (no busses have an EDID). If new kernels have added the acpi i2c driver then I should be able to leave the UEFI SDIO setting on acpi, so I won’t have to toggle it for Remix!

[Jerror]

I patched to Linuxium’s latest kernel, which has the I2C fix. The errors are gone, but there’s no new functionality; I haven’t gotten anything to work that didn’t before. The system is noticeably more responsive now, though, and the backlight problem has become clearer: “[drm:pwm_setup_backlight [i915]] *ERROR* Failed to own the pwm chip”. Probably no easy fix… software controls will do. Just wish I could get a battery meter! And I’ll have to give angellsl10’s soundcard patches a go sometime.

[Jerror]

Warning for triple-booters: the previous OS and the manner which it was exited effects the ability of the machine to boot. I used the desktop shortcut to switch from Windows to Remix, which crashed after half a minute presumably because I had SDIO set to PCI; so I flipped the setting to ACPI and rebooted, and Remix worked. But then after rebooting and flipping back to PCI, linux could not make it to the login screen. So I booted Windows and restarted, but then would freeze when I tried to open the BBS. Finally, I disconnected all devices and let the system get to the Remix/Windows splash, then forced it off while Windows was loading, and afterwards was able to boot Linux just fine. Note, I’ve installed grub on the Remix EFI partition.

After selecting a different operating system at the Remix/Windows splash than previously booted, the machine has to reboot. It may be that the Remix configuration is incompatible with Linux, or with Linux booting from the Remix-owned EFI; or that the “switch os” shortcuts in Remix and Windows are unsafe.

[Wojtek Kalinowski]

Just a remainder to everyone – Ubuntu 16.10 Linuxium has out of the box working WiFi and BT if you switch to SDIO Support to PCI. It also has fixed I2C bus kernel error which may change something in progress to make our Atom based tablets to be fully working @ linux :). I personally installed 2nd OS on my Single boot Hi10 and here’s my question.
I’ve heard something about goodix touchscreen driver for other Chuwi devices. Can someone tell me if it’s possible to make touchscreen work in Hi10? I can test anything you want If you provide me with exact commands 🙂 Also, if Audio through HDMI works, is there a way to make it work through headphone jack too? I saw some github repos with working sound @ headphone jack for some other Atom devices.

[Wojtek Kalinowski]

UPDATE: Touchscreen works but it’s not perfect. For me it’s bugged in 1 side of the screen where it kind of “rushes to the end of the screen”. Seems like touchscreen has too low resolution set compared to the rest of the screen. First when I got it every touch was inverted that’s why I installed xinput_calibrator so it works much better. Here’s instruction for the rest:

git clone https://github.com/Dax89/chuwi-dev.git cd chuwi-dev/drivers/chipone_ts
make hi10
sudo make install
RESTART UBUNTU
sudo apt-get install xinput-calibrator
xinput_calibrator

@EDIT: reported a bug @ bugzilla, contribute if you can 😀 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189261

[Alex Zor]

Has anyone installed the Tails on the hi10 Chuwi?

[Ferrer]

Jerror, could you explain how you compiled the wifi driver please ?I am unable to make it work. Thanks

[Ferrer]

Brad wrote:

Jerror wrote:

I’ve got a Hi10 Pro with the keyboard and HiPen2 stylus. I gave Linuxium’s 16.10 Gnome image a go. Bluetooth works out of the box, wifi works after compiling the driver — but I have to set SDIO to PCI. The touchscreen works well with angellsl10’s firmware. HUGE thanks to angellsl10 and BBaker! The system seems stable and I’m pretty happy with it. However, with Linuxium’s kernel I haven’t been able to change the brightness or monitor the battery. Those are pretty important… part of the proballlem seems to be the dire dearth of acpi modules in this inst. The only power supply device is an adapter (“ADP1”) though I’m running off battery, and I have 8 acpi_backlight devices which don’t do a thing. I’d like to try to get an intel_backlight up to control screen brightness but when I try to generate an xorg.conf (“X -configure”) X complains that there are no devices; it doesn’t recognize the intel chip. I haven’t tried to get sound working. alsa 1.1.2 (the version in Linuxium’s latest images) doesn’t have the chip’s driver. The touchscreen works very reliably, though; loads on every boot (with gslx1680_acpi_ts added to init modules), and even the pen works! The pen is awful, by the way. Outside of linux it is slow and unreliable; in linux you can see why: there’s really horrible random noise in its cursor location which Remix and Windows take large samples of to smooth out.

 

I can’t make the wifi and touch screen work in ubuntu 17 following the steps above mentioned, could it be because my pad is a Chuwi Hi10 pro? Maybe the drivers are different from the Hi10…

[name]

Good news: with new patch wifi works on the hi10 tablet without need to change sdio to PCI (remains default ACPI). Source code: https://github.com/linuxium/ubuntu-zesty/tree/Ubuntu-4.9.0-11.12.

Prebuild kernel also available.

 

 

[starmagoo]

Does this work with Chuwi Hi10 Pro?

 

http://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_505918.html

[chihiro]

I’ve found driver for touchscreen, bluetooth, and wifi. but I couldn’t yet find driver for audio, screen-rotation, battery.

does any one of you has infomation about these drivers? especially for battery?

thanks for your infomation.

[Brad]

Saturday, 28 January 2017
Updated: Bleeding edge Ubuntu 4.10.0-5.7 kernel with 17.04 pseudo Alpha 2 ISO

http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com.br/2017/01/bleeding-edge-ubuntu-4100-57-kernel.html

Updated
Added Lubuntu 17.04 Alpha 2 ISO.
/Updated

Please note my blog is intended to be the ‘dynamic’ update content partner to my ‘static’ core content pages on my website. This particular post relates to my http://www.linuxium.com.au/how-tos/runningubuntuontheintelcomputestick page where I’ve created some Ubuntu ISOs whose purpose is to better support Intel Atom based devices.

Whilst Ubuntu flavours released their second alpha of the Zesty Zapus (to become 17.04) today, Ubuntu continues with daily releases until the final beta in March (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseSchedule).

So I’ve created a pseudo Ubuntu Alpha 2 based on the official daily release for the 27th January which is the same date as the released Ubuntu flavour Alpha 2 releases and I’ve created a Lubuntu Alpha 2 based on the official release.

more about me here

[Wojtek Kalinowski]

Sound driver for linux is now available:
https://github.com/yangxiaohua1977/sound.git

[Lupo]

I have used the latest Linuxium version for 2 weeks on my V300 Hi10 Tablet.

http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com/2017/01/bleeding-edge-ubuntu-4100-57-kernel.html

This is the first Linux distribution which works perfectly with the Intel Video driver where the screen rotation works perfectly out of the box!

Also out of the box perfectly are working the WiFI, Bluetooth and the BATTERY level indicator! 🙂
Unfortunately the screen brightness, the touch screen and the audio aren’t working.

 

[Dmitry]

Hi! Please need help! I’ve just installed Linux Mint 18.1 KDE on my tablet Chuwi hi12. The wifi is not working, so I’ve seen the recommended here link (https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs) for installing the Realtek SDIO Wi-Fi driver. The problem is I am completely new to Linux system so I have no idea how exactly should I install that driver (there is no detailed explanation there). I’ve downloaded all files from there, tried to install it using the commands given there but got errors.

Could you please explain how exactly should I do to istall the driver.The version of kernel I have is 4.4. Thank you very much for your help!

[Author]

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