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On 12/28/17 12:36, Stefano Crocco wrote: |
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> Hello to everyone, |
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> I'm trying to install Gentoo on an Asus Transformer T101HA and there are some |
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> issues I'd need help with. |
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> First of all, I must say that many things worked fairly easily. I performed |
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> the installation from a SysrescueCD USB stick where almost everything, |
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> including WiFi and touchscreen, worked out of the box (aside from having to |
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> find out how to rotate the screen, both in X and in framebuffer). |
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> After installing everything (of course, compiling all packages on my desktop |
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> machine), there are still some things which don't work. One is the touch |
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> screen but, given that it worked using the SysrescueCD stick, I'm not worried |
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> too much about it (besides, I'm not planning to use it much). |
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> The most troublesome issues, right now, are the sound card and the SD card |
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> reader. Both of them simply don't seem to exist: they didn't work with the |
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> SysrescueCD stick, I can't find any mention of either of them in the output of |
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> dmesg, lspci and lsusb and Google gave pratically no answer. I'm starting to |
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> think neither of them is supported with Linux but I haven't been able to find |
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> any definitive information about this. I tried activating all kernel options I |
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> could find which seemed vaguely related to them, but to no effect. |
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> Unfortunately, I haven't been able even to find out the exact models of the |
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> cards. All I know is that (according to Windows 10) the sound card is an Intel |
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> SSt Audio Device (WDM), while the codec is a Realtek I2S Audio Codec. I have |
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> no information at all on the SD card reader. The motherboard, according to |
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> lshw, is a T101HA by AUSTeK. |
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> I attach my last version of the kernel config (using gentoo-sources-4.14.9 |
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> which, I just found out, now seems to be masked). |
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> I'd be glad for any hint about these issues. I spent all of this afternoon |
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> trying to solve them and I can't really think what else I could try. |
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> Thanks in advance |
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> Stefano |
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Hmm, after googling it seems some of those Transformer models are not |
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linux friendly. There are reports of no driver for the SD card reader |
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and models earlier than yours needed firmware to use the sound card. |
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You might be able to use hints from: |
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https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/T100TA |
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to get the sound working, even though the model is older than yours. |
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Dan |
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