Bionic Puppy 8.0 x64 Live CD, Frugal Install on Asus T100TA
Posted: Sat 01 Feb 2020, 17:25
Just a quick post to report that the Bionic Puppy 8.0 x64 Live CD (on USB flash drive) and frugal install to built-in eMMC (using kernel 4.5.x from Buster x64*) boots successfully, and on preliminary investigation works to an extent on an Asus T100TA tablet/laptop transformer:
- The built-in eMMC is recognised (but not by the standard kernel*)
- The 2GB of RAM is recognised
- The built-in display works at 1368x768(?)
- The Intel Atom Z3740 (w/ 4 cores) is recognised
- The USB port is recognised
- The micro SD card reader is recognised
- The keyboard and touchpad on the dock work
What doesn't work:
- Sound doesn't work
- The wifi card is not recognised
- The battery is not recognised
- No sensors are recognised
- It is not possible to configure the toucpad on the dock (menu->Desktop->FlSynclient reports "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?")
- Pressing the power button does not bring up the shutdown/suspend dialogue
* It should also be noted that while it is straightforward to boot into the live CD (on USB flash drive) and then perform a frugal install to the built-in eMMC, it is not possible to boot that frugal install because the standard kernel does not appear to support the eMMC and so initrd can't find the Puppy .sfs file to load and run - for more info, see http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=117895.
- The built-in eMMC is recognised (but not by the standard kernel*)
- The 2GB of RAM is recognised
- The built-in display works at 1368x768(?)
- The Intel Atom Z3740 (w/ 4 cores) is recognised
- The USB port is recognised
- The micro SD card reader is recognised
- The keyboard and touchpad on the dock work
What doesn't work:
- Sound doesn't work
- The wifi card is not recognised
- The battery is not recognised
- No sensors are recognised
- It is not possible to configure the toucpad on the dock (menu->Desktop->FlSynclient reports "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?")
- Pressing the power button does not bring up the shutdown/suspend dialogue
* It should also be noted that while it is straightforward to boot into the live CD (on USB flash drive) and then perform a frugal install to the built-in eMMC, it is not possible to boot that frugal install because the standard kernel does not appear to support the eMMC and so initrd can't find the Puppy .sfs file to load and run - for more info, see http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=117895.