Linux on Atom based devices

[BBaker]

Does your tablet BIOS support booting from a USB drive?  If so, I think you can run RemixOS from that, no?

[Thijs S.]

Remix OS does run on chuwi hi10,

Problem is, the screen cant be forced to landscape

There are no wifi, touchscree, and orientation sensort detected so there is a LOT of work to be done. I SADLY have no Linux experiences and am therefore not able to do any of the fixing, anyone else who can help here?

Thanks from Amsterdam

[BBaker]

Thijs S. wrote:

Remix OS does run on chuwi hi10, Problem is, the screen cant be forced to landscape There are no wifi, touchscree, and orientation sensort detected so there is a LOT of work to be done. I SADLY have no Linux experiences and am therefore not able to do any of the fixing, anyone else who can help here? Thanks from Amsterdam

A good place to ask is prob the XDA-developers forum… http://forum.xda-developers.com/remix/remix-os

[BBaker]

Re: Remix OS…

http://forum.xda-developers.com/remix/remix-os/remix-os-support-baytrail-tablets-t3315531/post65860749#post65860749

“Apparently there is a bug in recent kernels that affects Bay Trail devices.
Try to set kernel parameters intel_idle.max_cstate=1 and tsc=reliable at the end of kernel line in grub.cfg.
That did the trick on my Asus Transformer Book T200TA.”

[Anonymous]

Got it!!!
Internal WiFi (Realtek 8723bs) Working with kernel 4.5.1 patched thanks to Akmelius
https://goo.gl/photos/Wzes4GnrGvwKMN3C9
https://goo.gl/photos/MCF2VVcwajp3XBT77
New instructions on XJubunTAB web. And tomorrow I will upload distro with WiFi working.

[BBaker]

Hello all you tireless Linux hackers.  The 16.04 LTS (long term support) version of Ubuntu has now hit the wires along with tasty light-weight flavors… Lubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.   Time for a new round of  testing on Atom tablets?  I’m thinking they still have a ways to go on the driver/device support, or am I wrong?

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/04/see-whats-new-ubuntu-16-04-flavors-screenshot

[Anonymous]

Thanks also to speculatrix and for his support on this issue

[Pietre.linux]

Hello everyone, I'm Pietre , have been working with Linux tablet from a year ago, with your permission I will participate in this forum to share my experiences with intel linux tablet

My tablet is a BQ 2 tesla Windows 10

Baytrail z3735F
2Gb Ram
32 Gb NAND

Wi - Fi / BT 8723¿bs ? It works but not always

Sound r5640 (does not work , but alsamixer and recognizes the sound card)

BMA 250 3-axis accelerometer
It works , but the rotation is not integrated

5 megapixel camera (does not work , because it works by a data bus until 6 months ago was undocumented)

APX 288 ( battery indicator and power manager , a source of problems because not supported in the kernel.

I am currently compiling the kernel 4.5.1 with patch:
HDMI Audio in Linux is Now Working on Cherry Trail mini PCs, OpenELEC 7.0 Image Released


Best regards

 

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[Pietre.linux]

Ubuntu has a repository called chestersmill , this repository contains the following files:

chestersmill-settings_4_all.deb
oem-audio-i915-baytrail-dkms_0.20150605_all.deb
rtl8723bs-dkms_150410chestersmill1_all.deb
rtl8723bs-Bluetooth-misc_150511chestersmill1_amd64.deb
oem-audio-i915-baytrail-dkms_0.20150605_all.deb

This works only at 14.04 , on 16 does not work for the kernel , we must recompile.
The install script would look like

#!/bin/sh

cat <<+ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chestersmill.list
deb http://oem.archive.canonical.com/updates/ trusty-chestersmill public
deb-src http://oem.archive.canonical.com/updates/ trusty-chestersmill public
+
apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys F9FDA6BED73CDC22
apt-get -y update
apt-get -y install chestersmill-settings

[BBaker]

Linuxium has a patched Ubuntu 16.04 version for Intel Atom’s working supposedly on the Intel Compute Stick with working HDMI audio and Wifi.

note sure if this is helpful at all, if it works any better on tablets?, but FYI anyway…

http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com.br/2016/04/intel-atom-hdmi-audio-and-wifi-on.html

Linuxium… “I’m currently testing on the Intel Compute Sticks (Baytrail Z3735F & Cherrytrail x5-Z8300). Feedback and/or “level of interest” will determine whether it is worthwhile investing any further effort into this.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Got it!!! <noscript></noscript>
Internal WiFi (Realtek 8723bs) Working with kernel 4.5.1 patched thanks to Akmelius
https://goo.gl/photos/Wzes4GnrGvwKMN3C9
https://goo.gl/photos/MCF2VVcwajp3XBT77
New instructions on XJubunTAB web. And tomorrow I will upload distro with WiFi working.

 

Remix…meh. Ubuntu 14.04…meh. xjesus 16.04 is the bomb! I did some more testing with the latest b version on a gpart usb live drive and it now shuts down. I selected save session but it hung on the reboot, but only at the last point, I did have a desktop. I did not test further as I figure the glory item is yet to come! Great work and thanks to all who are making this a soon to be daily driver!

Max

[Anonymous]

Internal Bluetooth works already in XJUbunTAB XJX64bits-16.04.21T

You only need to type in a terminal:

sudo ~/Patches/rtl8723bs_bt/rtk_hciattach -n -s 115200 ttyS4 rtk_h5

Then run Bluetooth Manager (icon in Desktop)

Audio over HDMI coming soon…

Thanks to linuxium

http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com.es/2016/04/test-ubuntu-1604-lts-iso-for-intel-atom.html

I am trying this script to solve the EFI32 issue but my /target folder is empty and it doesn’t work. Can someone help me?

https://goo.gl/1LIx1S

(I replaced trusty for xenial also)

usu@usu:~/Patches/rtl8723bs_bt$ sudo chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc
chroot: failed to run command ‘mount’: No such file or directory
usu@usu:~/Patches/rtl8723bs_bt$ ls -al /target/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  40 abr 24 18:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 280 abr 24 18:26 ..

[Anonymous]

I got rid of Windows some time ago and I was thinking of installing Windows just to do a BIOS Update on my X98Plus, but I found this way to do it directly from a pendrive

http://techtablets.com/2015/10/teclast-x98-pro-boot-to-bios-missing-emmc-fix-bios-update/#comment-9302

[Goran Sevo]

I haven’t tried this yet, but if it is indeed working as it should, might be relevant for multiple testing with significantly reduces workload:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2276498
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2259682&p=13300523#post13300523

My apologies if I got it wrong (I am just a hobbyist after all, quite an admirer of you your work though :).

[Goran Sevo]

Something’s wrong with these links. The tread name should read “How to Create a EFI/UEFI GRUB2 Multiboot USB drive to boot ISO images”

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