Puppy for X86 64bit tablet with 32bit UEFI bios?

[Elena]

That's indeed promising news, Insomniacno1! An unused Odys Wintab10 (a gift) is resting in a drawer here too.

How did you manage to access the internal HDD/memory card and format it?

[Insomniacno1]

That's indeed promising news, Insomniacno1! An unused Odys Wintab10 (a gift) is resting in a drawer here too.

How did you manage to access the internal HDD/memory card and format it?

Hi Elena:) I didn't, I'm booting of USB stick. I made the USB from my Peach OSI(xubuntu) laptop.

Don't try to format the hdd and install, you will brick your tablet - because it depends upon the wimboot which is in your recovery partition. Run it of USB instead or figure out to boot it of MicroSD.

[greengeek]

slacko-6.9.6.1-uefi boots to desktop. But not good working without mouse, here the touchscreen actually works as the mouse but not good, as it is hard to move around and almost impossible to hit anything correct.

What happens when you touch the open space on the desktop? Does your touch "click" the desktop exactly under your finger or is the click point offset?

And if you slide your finger on the desktop does the mouse pointer track at the same speed as your finger or is the pointer lagging behind or accelerating ahead?

[Insomniacno1]

slacko-6.9.6.1-uefi boots to desktop. But not good working without mouse, here the touchscreen actually works as the mouse but not good, as it is hard to move around and almost impossible to hit anything correct.

What happens when you touch the open space on the desktop? Does your touch "click" the desktop exactly under your finger or is the click point offset?

And if you slide your finger on the desktop does the mouse pointer track at the same speed as your finger or is the pointer lagging behind or accelerating ahead?

Hi, the touch click(left mouse) is very much off and if I want to click on something then I have to drag the mouse across the screen as I would with a real mouse but its hard to get it to stay in one place because when its in place and I try to click it jumps of to near by my finger but not on where it were to stay, I wouldn't say its lagging behind its just not where its suppose to be. The speed is fine, but it will take an enormous amount of patience to use it as is.

But look at the bright side of this, we finally have a linux that works with this kind of tablet. Now we just have to get touch working as it should, wifi, bluetooth:)

[Sailor Enceladus]

Hi, the touch click(left mouse) is very much off and if I want to click on something then I have to drag the mouse across the screen as I would with a real mouse but its hard to get it to stay in one place because when its in place and I try to click it jumps of to near by my finger but not on where it were to stay, I wouldn't say its lagging behind its just not where its suppose to be. The speed is fine, but it will take an enormous amount of patience to use it as is.

But look at the bright side of this, we finally have a linux that works with this kind of tablet. Now we just have to get touch working as it should, wifi, bluetooth:)

I don't know if this will help, but to turn "tap to click" on with my trackpad, I can go into Menu -> Desktop -> FlSynclient, hit the Tapping tab, then change "One Finger" from Disabled to Left Button. Maybe the touchscreen uses the same option? If wifi doesn't work, you might need a newer driver (or added firmware) than what's in its kernel 4.1.32.

[greengeek]

Hi, the touch click (left mouse) is very much off and if I want to click on something then I have to drag the mouse across the screen as I would with a real mouse but its hard to get it to stay in one place because when its in place and I try to click it jumps of to near by my finger but not on where it were to stay,

OK - that is the same problem I got when I booted 6.9.6.1 on my touch tablet too.

If you have the ability to attach a keyboard (and preferably also mouse) temporarily there is something you can try which will confirm if your hardware can support more accurate touch response:

1) Boot 6.9.6.1 in "fresh" mode - with no savefile (I am assuming you have not yet made a savefile).

2) Close the "firstrun" setup windows that appear.

3) Navigate to your /etc/X11 directory and drag a copy of xorg.conf into the /root directory (this will just be a backup copy)

4) Use a text editor to open the original /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the line that says

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Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"

to

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Option "AutoAddDevices" "true"

then save the changes.

5) Now we want to shutdown to a prompt as follows:
- Click main menu
- Click shutdown
- Click "exit to prompt"

6) When you are presented with the prompt type the following:
xwin

Your should see it reboot back to a desktop and now you should find that the mouse pointer acts exactly where your finger is.

Unfortunately I don't see a way for you to do this test unless you can get a keyboard attached temporarily.

[bigpup]

Have you tried to modify the settings in menu->Setup->Mouse/keyboard Wizard->Touchpad?
There are a lot of setting adjustments.

[Insomniacno1]

Hi, the touch click (left mouse) is very much off and if I want to click on something then I have to drag the mouse across the screen as I would with a real mouse but its hard to get it to stay in one place because when its in place and I try to click it jumps of to near by my finger but not on where it were to stay,

OK - that is the same problem I got when I booted 6.9.6.1 on my touch tablet too.

If you have the ability to attach a keyboard (and preferably also mouse) temporarily there is something you can try which will confirm if your hardware can support more accurate touch response:

1) Boot 6.9.6.1 in "fresh" mode - with no savefile (I am assuming you have not yet made a savefile).

2) Close the "firstrun" setup windows that appear.

3) Navigate to your /etc/X11 directory and drag a copy of xorg.conf into the /root directory (this will just be a backup copy)

4) Use a text editor to open the original /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the line that says

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Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"

to

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Option "AutoAddDevices" "true"

then save the changes.

5) Now we want to shutdown to a prompt as follows:
- Click main menu
- Click shutdown
- Click "exit to prompt"

6) When you are presented with the prompt type the following:
xwin

Your should see it reboot back to a desktop and now you should find that the mouse pointer acts exactly where your finger is.

Unfortunately I don't see a way for you to do this test unless you can get a keyboard attached temporarily.

Ok, so far so good:) The pointer is now directly under my finger:)

Bigpup you can't do that unless you have an actual touchpad connected.

Now we just have to get Autorotation to work as looking at vertical mode in landscape is kinda frustrating:D

Can someone help with this?

I found out that the wifi is rtl8723bs - are there any drivers for this one or is there a generic one that can be used?

I found out that the bluetooth module is realtek too, seems to be in the same chip as the wifi.
Driver here - just need someone to make a pet.
https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs

Rotation, wifi and bluetooth are really important now.

I follwed Eldon's directions from here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79300

But as you know, I have no internet on the tablet and have to download the pet's on my laptop and then put them on the usb - so I have been chasing them anywhere I could. I have been searching this forum and ibiblio and smokey but the drivers I got did not work.

If I go to network and click on bluetooth, nothing happens.

Maybe realtek firmware is needed or maybe something has been left out of the kernel?


JBJ

[noalternative]

As the subject says, I'm looking for a Puppy that can run from USB on this kind of tablet.

As the owner of an ODYS WinTab 8 with the specs below, I like to know if its possible to boot as live or install to an Windows 8.1 with Bing tablet.

The current windows 8.1 with Bing, is not good on such a small screen and the way ODYS set it up there are only about 3GB free space out of the total of 16GB, because of a 5.12GB recovery partition.

Anyone have a suggestion?

HW:

Yara 1.1 looks like something I would try. I am kind of doing the same thing. It has large icons and finger friendly tabs. It also has an OSX like main desktop so you can pair with a bluetooth keyboard. Whether it works with touchscreen is yet to be determined. Wish developer gave more information about his package set.

http://yara-osx.weebly.com/screenshots.html

http://yara-osx.weebly.com/

A puppy with gnome3 would be good too if you have the specs. I am currently trying gnome ubuntu on my hp x2 10.1 inch.

[Insomniacno1]

As the subject says, I'm looking for a Puppy that can run from USB on this kind of tablet.

As the owner of an ODYS WinTab 8 with the specs below, I like to know if its possible to boot as live or install to an Windows 8.1 with Bing tablet.

The current windows 8.1 with Bing, is not good on such a small screen and the way ODYS set it up there are only about 3GB free space out of the total of 16GB, because of a 5.12GB recovery partition.

Anyone have a suggestion?

HW:

Yara 1.1 looks like something I would try. I am kind of doing the same thing. It has large icons and finger friendly tabs. It also has an OSX like main desktop so you can pair with a bluetooth keyboard. Whether it works with touchscreen is yet to be determined. Wish developer gave more information about his package set.

http://yara-osx.weebly.com/screenshots.html

http://yara-osx.weebly.com/

A puppy with gnome3 would be good too if you have the specs. I am currently trying gnome ubuntu on my hp x2 10.1 inch.

Hi noalternative, then I would rather go with Peach OSI as I run that on my laptop http://www.peachosi.com/ - but we are taliking puppy here and if you read the whole thread, then you will know how far we have come with this project and that touchscreen now works - just need to get wifi, bluetooh and screen rotation to work:)

JBJ

[noalternative]

Hi noalternative, then I would rather go with Peach OSI as I run that on my laptop http://www.peachosi.com/ - but we are taliking puppy here and if you read the whole thread, then you will know how far we have come with this project and that touchscreen now works - just need to get wifi, bluetooh and screen rotation to work:)

JBJ

Yara is based on Puppy with Ubuntu tahr compatibility, so you can install debs as well as pets. It is not a clone of osx. It is xfce, which is kind of like a cross between osx and gnome3, and than the mate version is like the old gnome2 and not osx like at all.

The website and his postings here don't give many details so it is easy to be confuse but both are nice distros.

[Insomniacno1]

Hi noalternative, then I would rather go with Peach OSI as I run that on my laptop http://www.peachosi.com/ - but we are taliking puppy here and if you read the whole thread, then you will know how far we have come with this project and that touchscreen now works - just need to get wifi, bluetooh and screen rotation to work:)

JBJ

Yara is based on Puppy with Ubuntu tahr compatibility, so you can install debs as well as pets. It is not a clone of osx. It is xfce, which is kind of like a cross between osx and gnome3, and than the mate version is like the old gnome2 and not osx like at all.

The website and his postings here don't give many details so it is easy to be confuse but both are nice distros.

Okay, but it needs to be setup like slacko 6.9.6.1 or it will not boot into the desktop. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=108017

I already failed puppy Tahr, xenial, lxpupsc and numerous others, that only boot to prompt telling that x failed to load and to run xorgwizard. xorgwizard will not work because the screen resolution of 800x1280(not 1280x800 like in windows) or 1280x800 is not on the list on resolutions and this tablet seems not to handle others in linux - in windows 1280x800, 1280x768, 1280x720 and 1024x768 are available.

If I run xorgwizard and choose to use xvesa and 1024x768 and finish, then type xwin I end up in same prompt.


Back to slacko:

I got wifi with external Netgear WG111V2 USB wifi stick(compatible with almost any linux), now I just need find the internal realtek wifi drivers to get that and bluetooth to work.
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The adjustment to xorg.conf a few pages back, seems to somehow break slacko so that I can't install .pet's also it seems to drop the usb keyboard. i don't know why, just that it happens right after reboot and I tried several times now with fresh savefile.
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In slacko nothing happens if I change the screen resolution, not even after reboot - it stays on 800x1280 - any fix for this?

xrandr claims that the card can handle 800x1280 min and 800x1280 max - which is not true.
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Please help me getting the screen rotated to the left(landscape mode), it's really uncomfortable to look at it as it is now:(
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I attached a screenshot of lsmod - copy and paste does not work in console(I thought that were standard nowadays), I will install lxterminal instead.

JBJ

[Insomniacno1]

I contacted 01micko and asked if he could build me a different version with some of the problems fixed, and are now waiting for his version:) So this thread is still alive - keep comming back.

Right now I'm playing around with Ubuntu 16.10 tweaked to be used with Bay trail tablets and here wifi works - sound and bluetooth is not working, neither are rotation.
https://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com/2016 ... 7716313577

But Puppy is the one I want on this tablet.

[greengeek]

Hi insomniac - have you tried Slacko 6.9.6.3 ? It gives me a great touch experience especially with an enhancement pet that I made for it. Hope it boots on your device.

[Insomniacno1]

Hi insomniac - have you tried Slacko 6.9.6.3 ? It gives me a great touch experience especially with an enhancement pet that I made for it. Hope it boots on your device.

Hi greengeek, did you get rotation, sound, wi-fi, bluetooth to work on that one?

That is why I'm waiting for 01micko to have time to look at a version for me - and everyone else with this kind of tablet:)

In the meantime I'm trying out other OS's, not to install but to find out how the problems were solved so we can use the solutions for puppy.

Let me be clear, the ultimate goal is to have puppy on this tablet. Not Ubuntu, not android, not phoenix - because the size of the OS matters on devices that can't be upgraded due to manufacturer stupidity.

It would not have been difficult to have made these tablets with RAM/ROM slots, so they could be upgraded. Instead they make them with useless MicroSD card that can't even boot or offer the possibility of installing app's to it, so the internal SD don't get cluthered.

The same goes for netbooks, I don't think I have to explain the stupidity on that topic, other than 2GB RAM max., no CPU socket.

The most important thing is the support, puppy has a large platform and almost any linux forum has someone capable of helping.

I have used puppy for many years on small machines, that were too old or too small(HW) to hold anything else. Most of the time things got to work, these days we have problems with touchscreen, wi-fi, bluetooth, sound because too many manufacturers and not enough open source drivers and sometimes the wrong driver is in the kernel and very hard to get rid of. Rotation still don't work on this tablet with Ubuntu 16.04 or 16.10, because the touchscreen is found as unknown and the graphic driver is found as i915 series - it's not, it's Intel HD graphics 4600.

Sound is not working because Realtek don't provide open source drivers, and the linux drivers on their homepage are useless. Card is found but still no sound and wrong ports added, so sometimes the tablet don't even boot anymore or you can risk blowing your soundchip!


I don't have a clue on how to program, HW repair/OS support is my thing, so I ask the ones much clever than me:)

The linuxium 16.04 has wi-fi and bluetooth working - all the other stuf above, do not work. Breaking my neck looking at it sideways.

[Insomniacno1]

As the subject says, I'm looking for a Puppy that can run from USB on this kind of tablet.

As the owner of an ODYS WinTab 8 with the specs below, I like to know if its possible to boot as live or install to an Windows 8.1 with Bing tablet.

The current windows 8.1 with Bing, is not good on such a small screen and the way ODYS set it up there are only about 3GB free space out of the total of 16GB, because of a 5.12GB recovery partition.

Anyone have a suggestion?

HW:

The Odys WinTab 8 is an 8" Windows 8.1 Tablet powered by Intels Bay Trail-T platform with an Intel Atom Z3735E quadcore processor. Built in is a microSDHC slot for expansion of storage of up to 32GB. 1GB of RAM. In terms of ports there is only 1 microUSB port which is host(OTG) capable and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Manufacturer Odys
Model name Wintab 8
CPU type Intel Atom Z3735E
CPU speed 1330 Mhz
Graphics Intel HD (Gen 7 Baytrail) - I's actually HD Graphics 4600
Fanless YES
OS Microsoft Windows 8.1
Display Size 8.0" 1280 X 800 - 1280x768, 1280x720 and 1024x768
Screen Type LED-Backlit LCD
Touchscreen type Multi-touch
RAM 1024 MB
SSD 16 GB
Battery capacity 16 Wh

Wireless Interfaces:
802.11 b/g/n - Realtek RTL8723BS
BT 4.0 Realtek RTL8723BS

Wi-fi/bluetooth drivers for developer to use as kernel patch https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs

No Wireless WAN (e.g. 3G cellular)

Soundcard: Realtek RTL5640/42
Drivers: http://12244.wpc.azureedge.net/8012244/ ... c8.tar.bz2 - Not working in Ubuntu, no sound.

Accelerometer: Kionix KXCJ9

It has 32bit UEFI bios, so in order to boot it on anything it needs the /EFI/boot/bootia32.efi - here are the files needed with grub.cfg files with examples - its made by Ted Dog and I have modified it to work on this tablet. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/948 ... usb.tar.gz


The bios can be accessed by holding both volume buttons and power ON, so you don't have to boot to windows first.

The partition scheme is as follows:

1. 100MB EFI
2. Windows C: - Windows 8.1 with bing - 9.30GB with 3.20GB free
3. Recovery - 5.15GB used

Seems to be using Wimboot.

Hope some of the many geniuses here can help with this.

With kind regards

JBJ

@01micko I have updated the HW specification for this tablet with the new information I have found - it's in dark red.

Hope you can use that for making puppy work on these tablets. They are also sold as Onda.


With kind regards

JBJ

[greengeek]

Hi greengeek, did you get rotation, sound, wi-fi, bluetooth to work on that one?.

I am just putting the finishing touches to the rotation scripts. I hope to post a pet soon to improve the touch usability on slacko 6.9.6.3

Rotation involves two things - rotation of the image on screen (easy) and also inversion/swapping of the x and y axes of the touchscreen and/or mouse (not so easy).

One of the problems is the script syntax needs to take into account the device name of the touchscreen - which in my case is "eGalax Inc. USB TouchController".

It would be good to find out the device name of the touchscreen on your device and one of the ways this can be done is as follows:

1) Boot slacko 6.9.6.3 or similar.

2) Download and install the xinput pet from this post:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 509#438509
(actually you don't need to download this if you install the pet below as xinput is already included in that)

3) In a terminal enter the following command:
xinput list

You should be able to spot exactly what the touchscreen device is called within X and evdev.

That touch device name can be entered into the rotation script so that the pointer axes can be swapped and inverted as required for either rotate left or rotate right.

EDIT 2 : It may also be necessary to change the device name of the visual display. It is currently set to LVDS1, but in order to find out if yours is different just enter the following in a terminal:
xrandr
The display name can be written into each of the /root/rot8 scripts.
(It is LVDS rather than LVDS1 for the Acer Iconia W500).

EDIT : I just tidied up the initial version of the rotate scripts and will attach the .pet here.

Please note:
- This is intended to be loaded to a fresh boot of Slacko 6.9.6.3 (32bit) without savefile (please test without savefile as I don't want to be responsible for damaging your current setup)
- This has been optimised for a Dell Duo. Other tablets may have different brands/models of touchscreen and may require script mods to account for device name variations.
- The rotation scripts are not attached to the accelerometer function - they are manual use only and are found in the /root/rot8 directory.

This pet changes the sizes of various components such as tray heights, scroll bar sizes etc, and adds a new desktop menu which can be used to access rightclick menu functions, main puppy menu functions, onscreen keyboard and also zoomin/zoomout functions for browser use.

There are some issues with drive icon placement (and window positioning) after rotate but I can live with that for now.

Credits to 01micko, jamesbond, jlst, and others for the groundwork that makes touchscreen possible.
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[Insomniacno1]

Hi greengeek, I will try as soon as I find time - i got an Slacko 6.9.6.3 and Slacko 6.9.6.4 32bit - Which one should I use?

I assume we are still talking about the 32bit version, as the 64bit hangs at the desktop on my tablet.

On 32bit the firmware has been trimmed. Are there and .sfs that restores it?

I have updated the first post in this thread with the HW info I have found - please look at the wi-fi drivers. Could you make a .pet that installs them?

That should also take care of the bluetooth, as it is the same driver.

Thank you for working on this with me:)

[greengeek]

i got an Slacko 6.9.6.3 and Slacko 6.9.6.4 32bit - Which one should I use?

I would stick with 6.9.6.3 at the moment for two reasons - firstly I have not tested with 6.9.6.4 yet and secondly there seem to be reports of a number of people finding issues with 6.9.6.4 - hopefully these problems will be better understood over time.

I assume we are still talking about the 32bit version, as the 64bit hangs at the desktop on my tablet.

Yes, just 32bit so far.

On 32bit the firmware has been trimmed. Are there and .sfs that restores it?

Sorry I don't know - most of my work has been with slightly older puppies and I am still getting familiar with the changes in recent pups.

I have updated the first post in this thread with the HW info I have found - please look at the wi-fi drivers. Could you make a .pet that installs them?

Unfortunately I don't think I am going to be much help with drivers - it is an area I don't fully understand. If I can work out how to help I will try.

Thank you for working on this with me:)

You're welcome. I wish I could do more to help but my skills are limited. This is an interesting project to work on though - your UEFI skills are helping educate me and maybe one day I will risk buying some new hardware and dip my toes in the UEFI pool.

The 32bit UEFI offerings seem few and far between so what you are achieving here is great.

If you do try 6.9.6.4 and have problems it would be worth reporting them in the slacko thread in case your information helps add to the understanding and improvements - maybe your device will contribute slightly different symptoms and help illuminate the problems - especially with regard to firmware.

[Insomniacno1]

Hi greengeek, I used the 6.9.6.3 32bit as you said and followed your guide:

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# xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ FTSC1000:00 2808:1008                   	id=9	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v1.0	id=6	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v1.0	id=7	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Generic USB K/B                         	id=10	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v1.0	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Generic USB K/B 

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# xrandr                                                                       
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 800 x 1280, current 800 x 1280, maximum 800 x 1280
default connected 800x1280+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   800x1280       0.00* 
# 

After running xrandr above, i changed LVDS1 to Screen 0 - I get an error when runnig the rotr script:

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# ls
Choices       my-applications  puppy-reference    spot
File-Sharing  my-documents     rot8               Startup
ftpd          network          slacko output.txt
# cd rot8
# ls
rotinvert  rotl  rotnormal  rotr
# sh rotr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
warning: output Screen0 not found; ignoring
unable to find device eGalax Inc. USB TouchController
unable to find device eGalax Inc. USB TouchController
# 

It didn't help changing the name to Screen0 as you can see from above output.

And as you can see the screen gets found incorrectly, in Windows it can handle: 1280 X 800, 1280x768, 1280x720 and 1024x768

And in windows the screen is set as 1280x800 - but in linux 800x1280 - maybe this is where everything go wrong.

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I still have no wi-fi or bluettoth so I'm using PS2 keyboard on usb adapter cable, and wireless mouse.