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In data martedì 31 maggio 2016 22:18:27, Bill Kenworthy ha scritto: |
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> On 31/05/16 06:43, Giampiero Gabbiani wrote: |
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> > In data martedì 31 maggio 2016 05:55:10, Bill Kenworthy ha scritto: |
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> >> On 30/05/16 20:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> >>> On Sat, 28 May 2016 14:46:02 +0300, Thanasis wrote: |
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> >>>> On 05/28/2016 09:03 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: |
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> >>>>> I was just about to spring for a mid range MS surface pro 4 tablet |
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> >>>>> when I saw a few posts about hardware problems ... MS hardware is |
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> >>>>> usually solid (in contrast to their software! :) |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>>> Are there any other similar tablets out there that are gentoo/Linux |
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> >>>>> friendly that are worth looking at? |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>>> I have been using an old Samsung android tablet and google has just |
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> >>>>> crossed the line and creeped me out past what I can tolerate so its |
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> >>>>> time to move on :( |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>>> BillK |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> Aquaris M10 |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> https://store.bq.com/gl/ |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Have you actually run Gentoo on one of these? |
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> >> |
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> >> Tried to do gentoo on android but was missing some essential settings in |
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> >> the kernel available ... and its not the most powerful beast :) I did |
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> >> eventually build a custom cyanogenmod but in the end decided that with a |
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> >> failing battery, it wasn't worth it :( |
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> >> |
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> >> The surface 4 is running gentoo but but I am running out of chickens |
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> >> trying to get the bootloader going ... seems like grub cant see the NVMe |
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> >> ssd the sp4 uses and rEFInd is being ... difficult :) |
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> >> |
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> >> EFI is like bad magic ... doesn't really work! My last efi adventure |
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> >> was an apple air some 4 years or more ago (which eventually worked) - it |
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> >> hasn't progressed much in that time. |
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> >> |
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> >> BillK |
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> > |
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> > On both surface Pro and Pro 3 it worked with the following partition: |
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> > |
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> > /dev/sda1 ef00 fat32 512MiB |
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> > |
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> > Grub2 was compiled with device-mapper USE flag and GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" |
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> > And installed with |
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> > # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --boot- |
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> > directory=/boot/efi |
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> > |
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> > What exactly is the problem? |
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> > |
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> > Grub2 succeeded in installation? If yes could you give the efibootmgr |
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> > output? |
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> > |
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> > Regards |
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> > Giampiero |
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> Working ... well the basics (console)! |
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> EFI - was down to me misunderstanding the syntax for refind and then a |
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> few other bugs/missing kernel driver etc. Booting from rEFInd directly |
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> using the kernel EFI stub. grub2 has been removed. |
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> Patched the kernel for the type 4 keyboard so have the MS type 4 KB |
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> working at the console including the mousepad (using gpm) |
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> WiFi (thanks to the the recent wpa_supplicant thread saving me time to |
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> refamilise myself with this) working to WPA2 - relatively easy :) |
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> Next is X and the fruit :) |
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> BillK |
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Great! I never tried rEFInd ... It looks interesting ... It seems to skip a |
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lot of grub complexity ... Could you share the config? |
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Regards |
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Giampiero |
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