[ahlidap]

Hi,

 

can’t remember. I don’t have this device anymore.

Wifi wasn’t working, I’ve used a USB wifi device.

Many things were missing, I don’t know how it is now, specially with the iso respin from linuxium.
But if things on this device are (not) working in the same way, it’s not really usable with linux.

I made that for fun.

[ahlidap]

Hi,

Uhm.. I think I don’t have those files anymore, as I sold my tablet.

I will try to have a look later on my usb hdd…

[ahlidap]

Hi,

No sound even after applying the patch provided.
Also BlueTooth is not working 🙁 I’ve restarted the service as written in linuxium but it do not detect the device. (I’ll try a little more).

About plain and original Ubuntu beta, I think Battery status is working, but no WIFI at all.
So for now I will play a little with the linuxium versions 🙂 maybe with the Budgie flavor.

Cheers

[ahlidap]

Brad wrote:

Linuxium’s 17.04 Beta 1 version
Did you run the script(s) that Linuxium said is required to make audio work?
By the way, I don’t know if he is talking about normal audio here or HDMI-audio.

“Kernel update scripts are provided for updating the kernel and require my ISOs to be installed as a pre-requisite otherwise you will be missing the ‘userland’ files required for audio, wifi and bluetooth. To upgrade the existing installed kernel to the later version provided by the script first download the script and after making it executable…<stuff deleted>…”

Hi,

no.
I also thought it could be just for HDMI, but I haven’t run them because I just tried in Live USB Mode.
I will first boot a plain (x)Ubuntu version, and only after I will give a try to install linuxium’s version and apply patch. 😉

[ahlidap]

foo

Sorry?

[ahlidap]

Hello all,

back to this again after a pause due to many reasons.
I’ve tested today the Xubuntu 17.04 beta1 available at http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com/ and I got good news!

Wifi Working
Battery Status Working

I will test the unpatched version from xubuntu / ubuntu and see if these devices are working because of linuxium patches or not.
If I repeat my steps to have a working touch, only sound would still missing!
Even without sound, wifi and battery status is awesome!

I will be posting updates during the next days.

Cheers

[ahlidap]

Hi @grandamaluk,

my tablet works perfectly!
Sorry but I can’t do that because it will contain personal info and accounts.

Could you have something wrong / disabled in the BIOS?
I (temporarily) lost wifi, sound, …. when I changed some options in BIOS to try things in Linux..

I can attach some screenshots of my BIOS settings if you need.

Try to look for some devices with the “ACPI” or “SOC” words in the device manager, and try to update the drivers with the ones from my backup.
You may have the right wifi/bt drivers but the system can’t reach the hardware (BUS).

Why not trying to do a fresh windows 10 install?
(
please do a backup of your drivers first, like I did mine with the PowerShell

open power shell as administrator and run: Export-WindowsDriver -Online -Destination C:\DriverBackup
)

You will probably not loose anything.
I’m a step of doing that to have a clean system.

Regards

[ahlidap]

(Boas) Greetings from Portugal too!

Please try my back up drivers instead.
Download them here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7L2N6qIHs_zVnk4RFp1YWc2UlU/view?usp=sharing

Regards

[ahlidap]

Hi (boas!),

I made a full backup of my 5S with the Win10 powershell utility.
You can download it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7L2N6qIHs_zVnk4RFp1YWc2UlU/view?usp=sharing

I hope this could help somebody 😉

[ahlidap]

Silead TouchScreen – How to put it to work

I managed to put the touchscreen to work on this device.

The driver is here: https://github.com/onitake/gslx680-acpi

You also need the firmware.
There’s a list of available firmwares here: https://github.com/onitake/gsl-firmware

But there’s no firmware for this device (yet, I will do a pull request to contribute) so we need to use the tools provided to extract the firmware from the original files on WINDOWS 10 (C:\Windows\system32\drivers\SileadTouch.fw)

I’ve used the file on my machine. Please note that it may not apply to your device.
I’m saying this because the touchscreen files available for download on here on the website, do not work on my device, I only got half touchscreen working with them on Windows.

 

Here’s the procedure, executed on Linuxian 16.10 beta 2 (it should work on any other recent distro, I think):

1. Install git if not yet installed and download the firmware / tools

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/onitake/gsl-firmware.git

2. Extract firmware for your original windows file (you can use my in attachment to see if it works) and copy firmware to correct folder

copy the SileadTouch.fw to gsl-firmware/tools and run

unscramble SileadTouch.fw firmware.fw
./fwtool -c firmware.fw -m 1680 -w 1920 -h 1080 -t 2 silead_ts.fw
sudo cp silead_ts.fw /lib/firmware/

3. compile and install driver

go back to the folder where you cloned the firmware/tools and

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. Testing

at this point you can test the touchscreen.
In the same folder as the step above just do:

sudo insmod ./gslx680_ts_acpi.ko

You should now have a working and not calibrated touch screen

5. Calibrating touch

It’s good to have a tool for that.
Just install xinput_calibrator:

sudo apt-get install xinput_calibrator
xinput_calibrator

and touch the screen on the points.

It will output a configuration text that you should put on a file (or use mine in attachment)

6. Make everything permanent:

sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf

and paste your config output, or mine:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "calibration"
MatchProduct "Silead GSLx680 Touchscreen"
Option "Calibration" "5 1958 26 1545"
Option "SwapAxes" "0"
EndSection

As we’ve already copied the driver to /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/ now we just need to tell the system to load it on boot:

sudo echo 'gslx680_ts_acpi' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
sudo depmod

7. Reboot and you’re done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puh3L6tG-Ec

how can I embed youtube videos here? Tried with iframe and object and none of them worked…

 

I will probably make a script for all this, because I don’t want to keep this modified version of Ubuntu, nor even Ubuntu.
I will then update this post.

 

Cheers

[ahlidap]

$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net; rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

[ahlidap]

Well, at least now we know which WiFi NIC you have – Atheros AR9271.

 

Sorry, I should have edited last post.
That one is my USB Wifi dongle, to keep me online.

The one from the tablet is a Broadcom 4343.
I’ve seen drivers, even for the SDIO one, but I got nothing.

I got nothing about this card, not even errors on dmesg or something (https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=370108).
I saw some scrips for wifi debuging, will try to run them and see the output after cleanup things from touchscreen 😉

[ahlidap]

Yes I tried it… why you don’t believe me? lol.. I simply got lucky by visiting their website yesterday morning.

It boots up normally, but what’s not working on any other distro isn’t working here too. Just that. No wifi, sound, touch, sdcard…
In fact now I have that version installed and dual booting along with win10 on my machine.

Here’s the output:

System: Host: ahlidap-5S Kernel: 4.8.0-14-linuxium x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.9.3)
Desktop: Unity 7.5.0 (Gtk 3.20.9-1ubuntu2) Distro: Ubuntu 16.10
Machine: Mobo: N/A model: Type2 – Board Product Name v: Type2 – Board Version
UEFI: TIT v: jumper8S16xV1.MABDEBA03 date: 03/18/2015
CPU: Quad core Intel Atom x5-Z8300 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 11520
clock speeds: max: 1840 MHz 1: 479 MHz 2: 479 MHz 3: 479 MHz 4: 479 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series PCI Configuration Registers
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920×[email protected]
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (Cherrytrail)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card IntelHDMI driver: IntelHDMI Sound: ALSA v: k4.8.0-14-linuxium
Network: Card: Atheros AR9271 802.11n driver: ath9k_htc usb-ID: 001-004
IF: wlxb0487a8c9f2f state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: NA (-) ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: N/A size: 61.9GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 7.6G used: 5.0G (69%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk0p5
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 221 Uptime: 17 min Memory: 1577.1/3862.2MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 6.2.0 Client: Shell (bash 4.3.461) inxi: 2.3.1

 

The good news are: I’ve managed to put TOUCHSCREEN working!!
I’ll put tutorial here ASAP 😉

cheers

[ahlidap]

Hi,

as I said in Jumper ezpad 5S section, I’ve tried that, and got nothing more than with a normal distro.
I got some errors while it tried to initialize hdmi (nothing connected there anyway) but when I connected an external monitor it was not recognized / detected by ubuntu. Maybe if I boot with the HDMI connected? Will try today, as I have that iso installed on my tablet.

😉

[ahlidap]

I just installed as usual, following on screen instructions.
I don’t even use their method for creating a bootable USB, I just use the ‘dd’ Linux command

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