If you have time, you too can have Linux on your Bay Trail device and learn why things work and do not work. Though primarily this is about the two aforementioned Dell devices in the title. Venue 1. 1, Writings have moved. DV1. 1P Writings In an effort to clean up and get to a point where only the latest information is on the base index Ive begun migrating material for the DV1. P to its own page. The current index was already 9. Venue 8 oriented anyway. Venue 8, Archived writings. DV8. P Archive Like the Venue 1. The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 18 Sarah Cinnamon Edition. Linux Mint 18 Sarah Cinnamon Edition Linux Mint 18 is a long term support. Update 2 If you are looking for a guide to Dual Boot Windows Vista and Mac OSX Leopard, please follow this guide Hack Attack Dual Boot Leopard and Windows Vista. Venue 8 dating back to Kernels from yoinks ago. If you are missing something here there is good chance its in the Archive. Found the Atom ISP staging driver and the camera modules Made a To. C generator, if your screen is greater then 1. I did some hacky CSS to make things better for mobile visitors. In the short term Ill be looking at archiving certain segments of information to a secondary page so recent information is up front and center. Its getting a little bit out of hand. Now testing 4. 1. I can confirm suspend work as does hibernation, Audio continues to work, Desktop with touch input resumes just fine. RTC vs u. SD slot bug is fixed. C has had love as the IIO sensors stay present regardless of cold or warm boot. Now to see how well it all worksRemoved my Windows 8. Antergos. In saying that I may still experiment with other distros and then do a plain Arch install again. Got 3. 2 bit 6. Fedora to boot and install, me gusta mucho. Blocks are still horrible, for now hover to see the full content or use links, lynx, elinks. Re doing CSS eventually. Ive gone past 1. Robots like Structured data. Still short on time, Ill probably spend the rest of the week off and on with 4. A warm and sincere thank you to the 7. July Stats that have come by and explored this slab of text since January 2. Lastly a shout out to the Dragonbox Pyra which is now available for pre order The Pyra is a made and designed in Europe, community driven, niche and unique piece of hardware which combines the best of a miniature tablet with a hardware keyboard and full Linux support. Google Bait. Running Linux on the Dell Venue 8 Pro 5. Intel Bay Trail tablet with Arch Linux and Friends. Ye ol Index. Demo Time. More screenshots in The Archive. First, Thank you Internets. Because wizards should be celebrated. Adam Williamson For his work on the Bay Trail Fedlet. John Wells Valuable clues on running Linux on the Asus T1. Bastien Nocera Patch collection and LKML posts. Pierre Bossart ALSA UCM files for Bay Trail Audio. Hans de Goede Fixing EFI to KMS handover. Pipe DSI fixesJan Michael Brummer Bay Trail Kernel work, Protips and other input. Fellow Linux Explorers, Arch Wiki and Kernel Devs For obvious reasons. The information collated and provided were an immense help in getting started on installing Arch, other distros and getting going. Project Status. Currently Testing. Antergos on Venue 8, Testing Kernel 4. Fedora 2. 6 on Venue 8, Kernel Kernel 4. The TL DR Version. When I started this journey at the end of 2. Now more then a year after starting to write this slab Im getting to a point where. Venue 8 is in a usable state. Bay Trail support in the Kernel has improved. Kernel 4. 1. 2 brings proper suspend support which warms my blackened heart with this Ive. Windows 8. 1 and am exclusively using Linux on the Venue 8. In Kernel 4. 1. 0. Audio has improved and. Wi. Fi seems a little better. Theres a now number of distributions out there with Multi Arch support meaning that the media comes with 3. UEFI support. With newer Kernel releases in place its also alot less painful to get a distro to boot. Booting a 6. 4 bit kernel with Grub works fine combined with Kernel 4. No startup workarounds needed anymore. If you intend to have your root. FS on a Micro. SD card you will need to keep bug 1. EFI stub is another option that I still need to test. Now that kernel 4. I may revisit alternate bootloaders. If you are adventurous and like to experiment, this slab of text is for you. When read attentively and clues correctly solved you should end up with a. Linux install. If you are a kernel developer, this is my giant bug report with kisses and. Just the facts Maam. The Goal. Getting Linux operational on niche hardware, documenting it and learning from it. With Linux working, keep functional hardware out of landfills because of user dissatisfaction with Windows and its associated behaviours. Less dramatically do Linux things and enjoy some media while being in control of my operating environment and its components. The Why. Having procured a Dell Venue 8 Pro 1. Pro for various reasons, the. Linux reliably and how it can run. Linux are all over the place. With the Venue 8 Pro being a Bay Trail device. Asus T1. 00, Asus X2. Etc. This slab of text is my contribution after hours, days, probably weeks, now months, over a year. Some of. it may be flat out wrong or relying on too much assumption, perhaps it will inspire you to think. The overall somewhat irreverent writing style is because I can. RFCs or MANpages. Technically, to make it all work you are reliant on at the bare minimum the Kernel 4. PMIC, Crystal. Cove and. Intel Atom So. C Support where the Venue 8 Pro is concerned. Realistically, Kernel 4. Ideally though, Kernel 4. Lastly this article is oriented towards explorers and enthusiasts so some. Some explanation may also seem rather. If you did X what would Y then do. Bug Reports. 6. 79. Dell Wireless 1. 53. Fail to setup bluetooth on Dell Venue 8 1. Pro. 8. 65. 81 Baytrail T no sound. CHV Backlight init fails on Surface 3. CHV DSI black screen. DSIBYT Panel detection fail. BYT Blank screen on DSI panel. Bay. Trail. 1. 11. Call trace with sndsocsstmfld platform when suspend to freeze. Failed to request irq 8 1. X rotates display with delay and black screen effect. Blackscreen on modesetting. Backlight support Dell Venue 8 Pro. Backlight init fails if module load order is wrong. Mailing Reading List. Arch Wiki Tablet PC Tablet PC Protips. Arch Wiki Touch. Screen Touch. Screen Calibration. Arch Wiki Touchegg Multitouch Gestures. Alsa Devel Baytrail mixer settings. Alsa Devel Intel SST. Spinics Crystalcove CRC PMIC based panel and pwm control. IIO Proxy Industrial IO Sensor Proxy tool. EFI memmap purpose of efimemmap kernel argument. LKML SDHCI Power Management on Bay Trail. Intel Stick Experiences similar issues as Venue 8 does. How To Hack A Secure Wireless Network On Iphone. AR6. 00. X series kernel driver. Bay. Trail Clocksource Android works best with tsc clocksource. Device Status. Venue 8 Pro 5. Kernel 4. 1. 2. 2. GB model, BIOS A1. Bay Trail SOC Block Diagram Intel 1. KBAtom Processor Z3. Z3. 70. 0 Series Datasheet intel. Boots 6. 4 bit kernel with 3. UEFI Grub. Micro. SD card slot is NOT bootable. System will only boot from USB or internal e. MMC. Grub, Kernel, Init. RD sit on internal e. MMC EFI partition Root. FS sits on Micro. SD card. Kernel Mode Setting if Grub initrd is configured right. CPU frequency scaling power states. Internal e. MMC, HS2. MB4. GC 2. 9. 1 Gi. B hdparm t 1. MB per second. Micro. SD Slot hdparm t 2. MB per second, 6. GB G. Skill SD. Hotplugging USB OTG cable can be temperamental. ACPI Execption Error Node, AEBADPARAMETER Powered OTG Cable Hub doesnt cause exception. Battery Status BIOS A1. Linux Mint 1. 8 Sarah Cinnamon released The Linux Mint Blog. The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 1. Sarah Cinnamon Edition. Linux Mint 1. 8 Sarah Cinnamon Edition. Linux Mint 1. 8 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. New features This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements. For an overview of the new features please visit Whats new in Linux Mint 1. Cinnamon. Important info The release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions. To read the release notes, please visit Release Notes for Linux Mint 1. CinnamonSystem requirements 5. MB RAM 1. GB recommended for a comfortable usage. GB of disk space 2. GB recommended. 1. ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they dont fit in the screen. Notes The 6. 4 bit ISO can boot with BIOS or UEFI. The 3. 2 bit ISO can only boot with BIOS. The 6. 4 bit ISO is recommend for all modern computers Almost all computers sold in the last 1. Upgrade instructions If you are running the BETA, click the refresh button in your Update Manager and apply any outstanding level 1 updates. Note also that samba was removed in the stable release as it negatively impacted boot speed. To remove samba, open a terminal and type apt purge samba. It will also be possible to upgrade from Linux Mint 1. Upgrade instructions will be published next month. Download links Here are the download links for the 6. ISO A 3. 2 bit ISO image is also available at https www. Integrity and authenticity checks Once you have downloaded an image, please verify its integrity and authenticity. Anyone can produce fake ISO images, it is your responsibility to check you are downloading the official ones. Enjoy We look forward to receiving your feedback. No Hard Disks Were Found For The Installation Opensuse Leap© 2017