Running Linux on the EZBook 2?

[Ricardo Simões]

Jump wrote:

Thank you so much for helping! IT WORKS! WiFi, trackpad work. Just booted it from the usb and it is very fast. Tell me if there is something you’d like me to try ?

UAU!!! I knew it!!! I wish mine wasn’t bricked 🙁

And yes I would like very much to know if sound is working, and perhaps bluetooth as well?

Best regards
Ricardo

[Jump]

If anyone is going to install linux remember that jumper can NOT boot from the sd card. Hence you might want to install it on an external USB drive (or in your internal memory).

[Jump]

Ricardo Simões wrote:

UAU!!! I knew it!!! I wish mine wasn’t bricked

And yes I would like very much to know if sound is working, and perhaps bluetooth as well?

Maybe I spoke too soon, bluetooth won’t turn on and audio files won’t play 🙁

But it is still a step forward!

[Ricardo Simões]

Jump wrote:

Maybe I spoke too soon, bluetooth won’t turn on and audio files won’t play But it is still a step forward!

Yes indeed it is because last time trackpad and wireless did not work out of the box, and now they do!!!!

Can you please run sudo inxi -xxAv6 in the terminal and paste the output here please?

Best regards
Ricardo

[Jump]

Ricardo Simões wrote:

Yes indeed it is because last time trackpad and wireless did not work out of the box, and now they do!!!!

Can you please run sudo inxi -xxAv6 in the terminal and paste the output here please?

It returns sudo:inxi: command not found maybe because I’m running it from the USB,
However I managed to enable bluetooth by starting it manually as suggested here sudo systemctl start rtl8723bsbt.service
So the only thing still broken is audio

[Ricardo Simões]

Jump wrote:

It returns sudo:inxi: command not found maybe because I’m running it from the USB, However I managed to enable bluetooth by starting it manually as suggested here sudo systemctl start rtl8723bsbt.service So the only thing still broken is audio

Ok try to install “inxi” first… sudo apt install inxi and then run sudo inxi -xxAv6 again

As for the bluetooth that’s great news, and this means that only sound is not working… I wonder how weird can that sound chip can be?!?!?!?

Best regards
Ricardo

[Jump]

Jump wrote:

Ricardo Simões wrote:

Yes indeed it is because last time trackpad and wireless did not work out of the box, and now they do!!!!

Can you please run sudo inxi -xxAv6 in the terminal and paste the output here please?

System:   Host: root Kernel: 4.12.0-041200rc7-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 6.3.0)
           Desktop: N/A dm: lightdm Distro: Ubuntu 17.04

Machine:   Device: desktop System: JUMPER product: EZbook v: Default string serial: Default string
           Mobo: AMI model: Cherry Trail CR v: Default string serial: Default string
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: Default string date: Default string

CPU:       Quad core Intel Atom x5-Z8300 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB

Graphics:  Card: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series PCI 

Audio:     Card-1 Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio driver: HdmiLpeAudio
           Card-2 bytcr-rt5651 driver: bytcr-rt5651
           Sound: ALSA v: k4.12.0-041200rc7-generic

Network:   Card: Failed to Detect Network Card!

It says Failed to Detect Network Card yet wifi does work.

[Ricardo Simões]

Jump wrote:

…It says Failed to Detect Network Card yet wifi does work.

That’s funny!

Try this in terminal instead: lspci | egrep -i –color ‘wifi|wlan|wireless’

Best regards
Ricardo

[Jump]

Ricardo Simões wrote:

Jump wrote:

…It says Failed to Detect Network Card yet wifi does work.

That’s funny!

Try this in terminal instead: lspci | egrep -i –color ‘wifi|wlan|wireless’

The last command returns nothing, if I just run lspci I still do not see anything related to wireless card.
That’s weird. However I’m using it without any problems (except for audio), ubuntu is really smooth, much more than windows 🙂

[Ricardo Simões]

Yep, it’s really weird !!!!

Anyway sound must be really close to get working as well, I bet someone will address it sooner or later… (ooooh, how I wished I hadn’t bricked mine)

Audio:     Card-1 Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio driver: HdmiLpeAudio
           Card-2 bytcr-rt5651 driver: bytcr-rt5651
           Sound: ALSA v: k4.12.0-041200rc7-generic

Best regards
Ricardo

[Brad]

Most likely the upcoming Kernel 4.13 will fix the audio problem.  Has both Ensoniq (Ensonic?) ES8316 and Realtek audio drivers in there.

https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/linux-on-atom-based-devices/page/19/#post-69443

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[GilDev]

That’s great news! I don’t have my EzBook 2 with me at this moment but I look forward to try that when I can!

[mike]

Mine’s been sitting around now 6-8 months.   I never really used it because I hate Windows 10 and the touchpad is unbearable/unuseable.  I am happy to hear this thing can finally run linux correctly (almost).

I would love this computer with linux on it.    I always hated having to plug in external mouse and wifi.  I want to just be able to take this thing, use it and go.

This is wonderful news.

[Jump]

Audio seems to be working with kernel 4.13 RC2 https://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com/2017/07/rolling-kernels-target-processors-and.html

[Paolo]

Hi , but the wifi card has a realtek or a broadcom chip ? In the last messages seems realtek in the intial broadcom…

cheers

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