Corresponding ticket: #6064
Left to do
Generic
- Minimized applications in the taskbar can't be raised via the taskbar. They can be raised via the Activities Overwiew.
Toshiba Encore 2 WT8-B
- Intel Atom CPU Z3735F @ 1.33GHz (Bay Trail)
- can cold-boot from USB: hold down the Vol+ button, then hold down the Power button, until the boot selection menu appears. Select the desired boot device and press the Windows key.
Tails feature/buster
, early 2019-01, Linux 4.19
Similar to previous tests apart of improvements reported in the "Works fine" section below.
Tails pre-3.9 devel branch (Stretch) + feature/15763-linux-4.17
- MAC spoofing fails
- Backlight tuning: GNOME Shell offers the UI, but it has no visible effect.
- Display rotation (probably because we don't install
iio-sensor-proxy
) - Sound card is detected but no sound output. The kernel complains
about missing
intel/fw_sst_0f28.bin
firmware while it's supposed to be shipped in firmware-intel-sound. http://www.studioteabag.com/science/dell-venue-pro-linux/#ALSA has some configuration tricks that might help.
feature/jessie + 32-bit UEFI, 20150507
- The Florence virtual keyboard is not very usable:
- its default font size is way too small, but that can be configured
- its "systray" icon is too small to be clicked, so one can't toggle the virtual keyboard on/off; see #8312
- Wi-Fi
- Battery level monitoring: GNOME Shell always says 100%.
- Backlight tuning: GNOME Shell offers the UI, but it has no effect that I can perceive.
- Tor Browser 4.5 does a weird resizing dance on startup.
- Sound card not detected (
/proc/asound/cards
), although a bunch ofsnd_soc_*
kernel modules are loaded. Logs complain about missingfw_sst_0f28.bin-i2s_master
firmware. Looks like Debian bug #774914 or https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254631 that suggests to fetch the firmware from the Chrome OS repository. Other sources suggest that the DSDT may be buggy.
Works fine
Toshiba Encore 2
Tails feature/buster
, early 2019-01, Linux 4.19
- Boots fine without custom boot loader options.
- Sound works out-of-the-box.
Tails pre-3.9 devel branch (Stretch) + feature/15763-linux-4.17
- sometimes boots fine after:
- removing
slab_nomerge
,slub_debug=FZP
,vsyscall=none
,page_poison=1
,quiet
andsplash
→ XXX: which of these changes are are really needed? - adding
nosplash
→ XXX: really needed? - adding
clocksource=tsc tsc=reliable
→ XXX: really needed? intel_idle.max_cstate=1
(https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051) → XXX: really needed?
- removing
- Battery level monitoring
feature/jessie + 32-bit UEFI, 20150507
- boots fine with
nomodeset
(otherwise screen blanks atswitching to inteldrmfb from simplefb
, although the OS continues loading) - X.Org with KMS
- touchscreen
- USB
Misc reports
- We've been reported that except Wi-Fi, Tails 3.11 works fine on the Microsoft Surface Go 10 inch. According to this post a update of the firmware file (shipped by firmware-atheros) fixes that.
Resources
- https://twitter.com/kapper1224 gave an inspiring talk at DebConf18 (slides) about "Hacking with x86 Windows Tablet and mobile devices on Debian".
- https://nmilosev.svbtle.com/fedora-on-baytrail-tablets-2017-edition
- http://www.studioteabag.com/science/dell-venue-pro-linux/