[David]

Actually any distro with the v5.3 kernel can be made working including Lubuntu v19.10 and also Manjaro. It’s also not that difficult after you know how:

1. Prepare your favorite distro on a USB stick and boot from it.
2. Once the live environment has finished loading activate the touchpad by opening a terminal (press ctrl+alt+T) and type
   

   sudo modprobe -r hid_multitouch

3. Now you can install your distro with the GUI and reboot to it.
4. Again activate the touchpad like in step 2.
5. To make this permanent you have to blacklist hid_multitouch either in the GUI by adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (create it if it doesn’t exist)
   

   blacklist hid_multitouch

   or in terminal:

   sudo -s
   echo ‘blacklist hid_multitouch‘ >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
   exit

6. To make wifi work just rename brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.jumper-ezpad-mini3.txt to brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.txt in /lib/firmware/brcm/ and reboot OR restart the driver with
   

   sudo modprobe -r brcmfmac
   sudo modprobe brcmfmac

 

Many thanks to Martin and his post from the previous page. I would not have figured it out without it.

[David]

I also wanted to install Linux on my EZbook 2 (with the Z8300 CPU) and here are my findings:

Sound works on almost every distro out of the box.

Touchpad works on almost every distro if you disable hid_multitouch with

sudo modprobe -r hid_multitouch

Wifi ONLY works with Ubuntu Budgie if you rename brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.jumper-ezpad-mini3.txt to brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.txt in /lib/firmware/brcm/ and reload brcmfmac.

Distros I have tried are Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Manjaro KDE.

Manjaro KDE runs much smoother than Budgie and I would prefere the KDE desktop over the others.

Finally, I don’t think I will switch to Linux yet, but will sure try to run Linux, when future updates are released.

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