[Mike]

Touch Screen on Chuwi Hi10-Plus

Most of this comes off a post by ‘ahlidap‘ on this forum, but some of the points are not clear and there seems to be a few unessecary steps, so I am clarifying it a bit more here specifically for Linux 19.3 xfce:

1) Install git if not yet installed

sudo apt-get install git

2) Download and copy the firmware / tools

git clone https://github.com/onitake/gsl-firmware.git

sudo cp /gsl-firmware/firmware/chuwi/hi10_plus/silead_ts.fw /lib/firmware/

Note: if you are using another Chuwi Tablet, look inside the /Chuwi directory for the correct firmware, e.g hi10_air, hi10_pro etc.

3) compile and install driver

git clone https://github.com/onitake/gslx680-acpi.git
cd gslx680-acpi
make
sudo cp gslx680_ts_acpi.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/

4) Start the touchscreen

sudo insmod ./gslx680_ts_acpi.ko

5) Calibrating touch

install xinput-calibrator via the Software Manager or
sudo apt-get install xinput-calibrator

To run the calibrator tyoe the following at the prompt
xinput_calibrator
The output of the callibration needs to be inserted into a file – see below

6) Install Gedit via the software manager and run the following command to edit the file

sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf
Select everything from Section “InputClass” and EndSection past into the file, click save and exit the file.

7) Make everything permanent:

sudo echo ‘gslx680_ts_acpi’ | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
sudo depmod

And that should get your touchscreen working, even on reboot. Again, big thanks to ahlidap for his post explaing all of this…

[Mike]

Chuwi Hi10-Plus working 98% on Linux Mint

After a lot of research and mistakes, I finally managed to get my Chuwi Hi10-Plus tablet to work flawlessly with Linux Mint 19.3 xfce.  Pretty much everything works on installation barring the Touch Screen and Sound.  The Touch Screen is pretty easy to set up, although I will have to re-find the solution and post it here if there are interested parties, let me know.  The sound card was a bit of a challenge though, I’m not 100% sure how I managed to get that to work, but I can try trace my steps back and also post something if needed.  the dodgy Bluetooth was related to the sound issue, so once that was resolved, the bluetooth connection also works great!

The only iffy thing I have at the moment is: the wifi connects to my router at startup, no problem.  However, if I try to change networks from the list of available networks, it will not connect.  I have to forget the current network, then connect to the new network and only then will it work.  Not to be ungrateful, but I wouldn’t mind being able to resolve that issue, however, I don’t want to mess with what I have so far, since I am seriously excited about getting everything working to this point.

Also, I wouldn’t mind not having to press F7 on startup to get to the Bios boot menu to run Linux, I have removed Windows 10 and Anddroid, which came as defaults with the tablet, who needs Windows anyway!!!

Yay!!

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