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March 25, 2017 at 1:53 am #63955
here’s my inxi report: http://pastebin.com/fGYVg3LK feels like this isn’t enough info, is there another command i should run?
To get exhaustive info on your network/wireless setup run the following command string (the whole line) in a Terminal window…
wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireless-info/raw/master/wireless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-infoThen find the wireless-info.txt file it creates, paste the contents to pastebin.com and post the URL
oh something strange i also noticed: the trackpad’s gestures (three finger tap to load app menu, three finger scroll down to switch apps, etc) works, just not the actual mouse part lol. do not understand why.
Try some different distro’s. I would recommend Linux Mint Mate 18.1 or Manjaro Xfce 17.0 (Manjaro is the easiest to try out because you can install it onto a USB drive and it works well and persists your data/changes).
gonna try out manjaro right now, thanks
edit: still dont have trackpad, wifi, bluetooth, or battery meter in manjaro. gonna flash mint onto a usb drive right now and give it a go.
March 25, 2017 at 2:05 am #63956eh, that WirelessInfo script does not work on Arch Linux, it’s written for Ubuntu and works also on Mint and other Ubuntu based distro’s. I don’t know how to debug it on Arch.
March 26, 2017 at 10:45 pm #64096update on the trackpad, here’s libinput’s event list: http://pastebin.com/crRbq1v4 and more detail: http://pastebin.com/V3pWmBQc
i’m able to configure it in gnome settings and like i said some of the gestures work, but using the trackpad itself (mouse input and all the buttons) does not work.
still no luck on battery meter as well.
March 28, 2017 at 2:36 pm #64132Seems like there is lots of good work ebing done here! I am going to order an ezbook 3 soon I think. Has anyone had any luck with Chromium OS on the ezbook 2 / 3? This seems like a nice laptop to run as a chromebook?
March 28, 2017 at 3:13 pm #64133Seems like there is lots of good work ebing done here! I am going to order an ezbook 3 soon I think. Has anyone had any luck with Chromium OS on the ezbook 2 / 3? This seems like a nice laptop to run as a chromebook?
If the price is REALLY good OK. I’m guessing Linux will run on it much better than the Atom based EZbook 2 (which it seems does not work at all), but just realize that that dual-core Celeron N3350 in the EZbook 3 is significantly less powerful than the newer Apollo Lake quad-core Celeron N3450 (eg., in the Chuwi Lapbook and some others) or the quad-core Pentium N4200.
Here is the CPU Mark test scores of the three: N3350=1144; N3450=1822; N4200=2062
Even the Atom x5-Z8350 processor in the EZbook 2 has a higher score (1261) than the N3350 in the EZbook 3.March 29, 2017 at 3:28 pm #64207See today’s latest info from Linuxium about spinning the most up to date distro for Cherry-Trail devices…
https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/linux-mint-on-a-chuwi-hi10-tablet/page/26/#post-64206March 30, 2017 at 2:22 am #64243okay i just reread the thread and forgot i reset my bios before installing linux. what are the options i need to use to get some of the stuff (what we have working so far) working?
March 30, 2017 at 2:26 am #64244what are the options i need to use
What options are you talking about BIOS options?
March 30, 2017 at 2:30 am #64245If you re-read this thread then you know that Linux does not work for shit on this machine. At least up to this point in time from what I read in this thread. Therefore, IMO your best chance in getting things working is to try the very latest Kernel (4.11) via direction that Linuxium gave here…
http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com.br/2017/03/running-ubuntu-with-upstream-kernel-on.htmlMarch 31, 2017 at 11:22 pm #64371If you re-read this thread then you know that Linux does not work for shit on this machine. At least up to this point in time from what I read in this thread. Therefore, IMO your best chance in getting things working is to try the very latest Kernel (4.11) via direction that Linuxium gave here… http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com.br/2017/03/running-ubuntu-with-upstream-kernel-on.html
there was a discussion not two pages from this one about bios settings and i was asking whether or not i needed to change anything in order to get certain things working, or if that was related to why i wasn’t getting stuff working that other people were. i tried that link and it did not work. no need to be rude.
March 31, 2017 at 11:29 pm #64372I was not being rude. Why would I be rude?… since I have been trying to help people get this stuff working for damn year a year now on the various forums with Cherry-Trail devices. I said “does not work for shit” just to mean than almost nothing works, or at least used to be that way as reported much earlier in this thread.
April 28, 2017 at 9:40 pm #66233I tried to upgrade the ubuntu on my internal drive to 17.04 but it crashes. I don’t know if it is related but the emmc drive had disappeared, it may have die.
I try a live boot with ubuntu 17.04 but it doesn’t change much. Touchpad don’t work and I have error message in dmesg. I just try last version of Manjaro 17.0.1. Touchpad don’t work but I don’t have any error in dmesg, it looks better.
April 28, 2017 at 11:19 pm #66250I tried to upgrade the ubuntu on my internal drive to 17.04 but it crashes. I don’t know if it is related but the emmc drive had disappeared, it may have die. I try a live boot with ubuntu 17.04 but it doesn’t change much. Touchpad don’t work and I have error message in dmesg. I just try last version of Manjaro 17.0.1. Touchpad don’t work but I don’t have any error in dmesg, it looks better.
I assume this is Manjaro XFCE? You are running Manjaro from USB or you installed it to the EMMC drive?
May 4, 2017 at 8:13 pm #66520Yes, it is manjaro xfce. My emmc drive disappear, I assumed I could use SD Card but it is not showing.
May 4, 2017 at 8:24 pm #66523Yes, it is manjaro xfce. My emmc drive disappear, I assumed I could use SD Card but it is not showing.
Do you mean you are booted from a Live-USB drive and running Gparted (or the install program) does not show the emmc drive? If you boot from the Live-USB what do you see when you run this terminal command: “sudo fdisk -l”
Did you try enabling in the BIOS settings “legacy boot” option? When you go into the “boot” section of your BIOS settings does it see the emmc drive and is it placed at the top of the boot order list (or to enable booting from the USB then place the EMMC second in the list after the USB drive). -
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