Running Linux on the EZBook 2?

[Gabriele]

Same problem, Hi all!

[Robert]

Someone tried CloudReady https://www.neverware.com/#mediatext or ChromiumOS Special https://arnoldthebat.co.uk/wordpress/chromiumos-special-builds/ on EZBook 2 ?

[Ricardo Simões]

Robert wrote:

Someone tried CloudReady https://www.neverware.com/#mediatext or ChromiumOS Special https://arnoldthebat.co.uk/wordpress/chromiumos-special-builds/ on EZBook 2 ?

Personally not yet, but will do ASAP and report back

Best regards
Ricardo

[Robert]

CloudReady – not working USB mouse, Wi-fi and sound, ChromiumOS latest night build same problem.

[Ricardo Simões]

Robert wrote:

CloudReady – not working USB mouse, Wi-fi and sound, ChromiumOS latest night build same problem.

not working USB mouse…, and what about the touchpad? Is it working?

Best regards
Ricardo

[Robert]

Touchpad does not work too

[Ricardo Simões]

Robert wrote:

Touchpad does not work too

Oh that’s a shame, every other distro I tested, it worked fine with my USB mouse, and also with my 1TB Toshiba USB 3.0 External HDD

Best regards
Ricardo

[Matteo Serra]

Hi, I’ve just ordered a jumper ezbook 2 new version (they could have fixed the external hard disk issue and should have improved the internal cooling)

Is there any way to have a linux distro full working?

I just need an OS with a lot of battery life and good performances

best regards

[Ricardo Simões]

Matteo Serra wrote:

Hi, I’ve just ordered a jumper ezbook 2 new version (they could have fixed the external hard disk issue and should have improved the internal cooling) Is there any way to have a linux distro full working? I just need an OS with a lot of battery life and good performances best regards

My external Toshiba 2.5″ HDD USB 3.0 works well with this EzBook 2 on windows 10 and ubuntu (I plug it on its USB 3.0 port on the right side). Don’t know if other models and/or brands will work too.

This EzBook comes with Windows 10 Home x64 and everything works fine. I resized the W10 partition and made room for a linux install, and I’m now successfully dual booting but every linux distro I installed wi-fi + touchpad + sound + bluetooth don’t work.

The most annoying problem to me it’s the sound, everything else I can deal, for wi-fi I can buy a cheap dongle, for touchpad I can use a usb mouse (which I prefer BTW) for bluetooth… I don’t care LOL!!!!

So for now I’m stuck with Windows 10, but I believe it’s just a matter of time until some new kernel and/or driver will fix these problems

Best regards
Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

Latest Linuxium build “Cherry Picked Patches for Cherry Trail Devices” released today, but… I’ve just tested it live and still no wi-fi devices found even if …”To turn on wifi for mini PCs with Broadcom wifi chips it is often necessary to reload the driver. In a terminal window enter ‘sudo modprobe -r brcmfmac’ followed by ‘sudo modprobe brcmfmac’.”… and still no touchpad, no bluetooth and no sound.

But now sound shows a different thing:

“Analog Output
Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series PCI Configuration Registers”

Best regards
Ricardo

[Janus Reith]

Wow, just wrote a long post explaining what I got working so far, after submittinh it was gone…
I have the Yepo 737s, which has similar specs.

So, short form: Use latest Antergos with Kernel 4.8, Touchpad and standy work out of the box, Keyboard shortcuts also work including backlight control.

I got Bluetooth to work, Wifi is also detected now but doesnt find any APs.

Wifi: https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs, Bt: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723bs_bt. You need to build your own kernel with the patch 0001-My-changes-for-4.7.0-rc7-for-Baytrail-T.patch

Still investigating Battery and sound. Maybe I will rewrite this post more detailed when my frustration is gone that the previous, detailed post just vanished. ATM Im buidling a new kernel including more patches, will report back.

[Ricardo Simões]

Janus Reith wrote:

Wow, just wrote a long post explaining what I got working so far, after submittinh it was gone… I have the Yepo 737s, which has similar specs. So, short form: Use latest Antergos with Kernel 4.8, Touchpad and standy work out of the box, Keyboard shortcuts also work including backlight control. I got Bluetooth to work, Wifi is also detected now but doesnt find any APs. Wifi: https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs, Bt: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723bs_bt. You need to build your own kernel with the patch 0001-My-changes-for-4.7.0-rc7-for-Baytrail-T.patch Still investigating Battery and sound. Maybe I will rewrite this post more detailed when my frustration is gone that the previous, detailed post just vanished. ATM Im buidling a new kernel including more patches, will report back.

YEEAAAAAHH @Janus Reith

Go Go Go, latest stable kernel is 4.9 and 4.10-rc1 came out today https://www.kernel.org/

Please report back, I’m also trying very hard to get this laptop to work, and I’ll do some more tests with Mint 18.1 and then I’ll try to follow your instructions

Keep up the excellent work 😉

Best regards
Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

Janus Reith wrote:

… So, short form: Use latest Antergos with Kernel 4.8, Touchpad and standy work out of the box, Keyboard shortcuts also work including backlight control. I got Bluetooth to work, Wifi is also detected now but doesnt find any APs…

Janus I’m using antergos-2016.11.20-x86_64.iso and I can’t install it because it’s need internet connection to install, but when running it live I confirm that screen brightness works out of the box, but touchpad does not work and everything else 🙁

kernel is 4.8.8-2-ARCH

Did you manage to install it on your hdd? How?

Best regards
Ricardo

[Janus Reith]

I used my android phone wih USB tethering. You could also use a supported wifi stick.

Trackpad: Verify that xf86-input-libinput is installed and in use, if it still fails uninstall all other packages starting with xf86-input

[Ricardo Simões]

Janus Reith wrote:

I used my android phone wih USB tethering…

BRILLIANT! (now why didn’t I think of that? LOL)

Please take a look at the info below, and see if it can help you figure out what wi-fi and sound card this EzBook 2 has

hwdetect result:

AGP      : intel-gtt
ACPI     : ac acpi_pad battery button dptf_power thermal video
BLOCK    : scsi_mod sd_mod uvcvideo usb-common usbcore xhci-hcd xhci-pci uas usb-storage
BLUETOOTH: btbcm btintel btqca hci_uart bluetooth
CPUFREQ  : acpi-cpufreq pcc-cpufreq
CRYPTO   : aesni-intel aes-x86_64 crc32c-intel crc32-pclmul crct10dif-pclmul ghash-clmulni-intel glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd gf128mul lrw
DRM      : drm_kms_helper drm i915
HWMON    : coretemp
I2C      : i2c-algo-bit i2c-designware-core i2c-designware-platform
INPUT    : evdev input-leds joydev soc_button_array mousedev sparse-keymap goodix silead hid-generic hid hid-multitouch i2c-hid usbhid
KVM      : kvm-intel kvm
MEDIA    : media uvcvideo videobuf2-core videobuf2-memops videobuf2-v4l2 videobuf2-vmalloc videodev
NET      : fjes bluetooth nci nfc rfkill-gpio rfkill
SOUND    : pcspkr ac97_bus snd-compress snd snd-pcm-dmaengine snd-pcm snd-timer snd-soc-rl6231 snd-soc-rt5640 snd-soc-rt5645 snd-soc-rt5651 snd-soc-sst-mfld-platform snd-intel-sst-acpi snd-intel-sst-core snd-soc-sst-match snd-soc-core soundcore
TPM      : tpm tpm_tis_core tpm_tis
WATCHDOG : iTCO_vendor_support iTCO_wdt
OTHER    : intel-cstate led-class mac_hid lpc_ich mmc_core sdhci-acpi sdhci fdp_i2c fdp intel-hid intel_rapl spi-pxa2xx-platform acpi_thermal_rel int3400_thermal int3403_thermal int3406_thermal int340x_thermal_zone 8250_dw fb_sys_fops syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt crc16 irqbypass

Best regards
Ricardo

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