Debian (ou outra distro) no tablet CCE TF74W

racoski
(usa Linux Mint)

Enviado em 19/08/2015 - 18:39h

Olá.

Pesquisei em alguns sites, no Google, e não encontrei uma documentação que apontasse para uma possível forma de instalar uma distro Linux (preferencialmente Debian ou Linux Mint) no tablet Windows CCE TF74W. Existe, de fato, alguma forma de instalar Linux nesse aparelhinho de 200 reais? Ele já está com Windows 10.

Desde já, agradeço.

bbaker6212
(usa Linux Mint)

Enviado em 26/09/2015 - 18:09h

E outro trablet mas pode ajudar...

Em Ingles:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=201040&p=1071570#p1049968 

Re: Cheap walmart special tablets and Linux Mint
Postby Hmfan on Sat Aug 08, 2015 2:52 am
Happy update. I have succeeded in getting it to boot into linux mint. A few things do not appear to work right away but that's not surprising.

1: found a working bootia32.efi with further web crawling
2: used 64 bit linux mint Cinnamon 17.2
3: using Rufus (https://rufus.akeo.ie/) I wrote the image to a USB otg flash drive using the Gpt for efi and bios setting. For whatever reason this wouldn't work with unetbootin.
4: add the bootia32.efi to the /efi/BOOT/ directory
5: using windows, i told it to reboot using the advanced startup and then selected usb boot and it worked after a black screen for a scary few seconds.

After waiting it out and it finally showing some life after the boot manager(Grub screen) i was greeted with the Linux Mint desktop... oriented on it's side. No big deal. going into display settings corrected this. So the list of what works then.
1: keyboard dock
2: touchscreen (This was a bit of a shock actually)*
3: display itself
4: Usb ports on keyboard.
5: SD card slot**
6: Volume rocker and "Windows key"***
7: Battery indicator****

What doesn't work:
1: auto rotate(is that surprising really?)
2: wifi (no surprise)
3: bluetooth (no surprise either since it's the same card.)
4: sound, maybe I thought I heard the startup tone but it claims only a dummy output. Though I guess I did ask for a silent tablet :roll:

All in all it's nice to see the guy that said the bootloaders were locked to specific windows kernels, was just blowing smoke. This means the tablet should be perfectly fine with booting windows 10, if i was so inclined to do so. If there are ways that anybody can think of that can fix the problems I found, these tablets could be a godsend for Linux Mint and or Ubuntu since it works with the valleyview (bay trail) graphics.

small edit: I found that the Wi-Pi I purchased for my Raspberry pi works nicely for getting Wireless network connections. it's something at least.

* Only works properly when oriented in portrait.
** seems to choke on exfat formatted sd cards, otherwise works fine.
*** Windows Key acts like a "HOME" button, might be configurable. Volume Rocker switch adjusts the volume control, but due to sound not working, nothing is effected.
**** It sees the battery, it knows the battery is discharging, but doesn't seem to be able to tell when the battery's level actually goes down. It stayed at 100% the entire time while testing and when I returned to windows it claimed the battery was at 77%. Not sure if this is a common bug or not as my Acer Aspire One ZG5 does this too unless you plug the jack in for a second and then remove it. did not test that trick with the tablet.