Native Linux for Asus tf701t

[ariadnejro]

please dont tell me this thread has died!!?! This is such an amazing project, and I've been dying for all the kinks to get ironed out so I could have a full fledged linux distro run on my tf701.. anyone got any info on this.. any new developments?

I also would like to see more activity in this thread. However, I've been using a dual boot of Xubuntu and sonja's BlissPop for a long time and I consider both of them totally stable. Although it's already two years old, I'm still in love with my TF701.

 

[rfpd]

Will this work on Asus memo pad 10 me301t? If not is there anyway to run it native? I would like to give my tablet more use because android is kind of useless, thanks.

 

[royredman]

hey, I just got xubuntu 14.04 working on this thing wonderfully, but the screen resolution is too big for me to see most icons? does anyone know how to change this?? I looked in display, and there are no other options in screen resolution

 

[canisofwar]

Is this thread dead most of the links save for Xubuntu seem to be dead

 

[Trel725]

I'm sorry my tablet is broken now, so I can't continue development anymore.

 

[Trel725]

I will try to fix links.

 

[Miregix]

I will try to fix links.

Hello, first of all thank you for your great work!

I've tried Geometry method to add touch support to xubuntu, but I didn't succeed, because the files attached seem to be corrupted,
and dpkg and tar commands give me error so i could not install or extract them to their location.

The archives you posted install and extract fine, but at reboot touchscreen still does not work.
(touch wrapper service could not be started also manually)
Maybe i've done something wrong, because the archives content is a bit different form geometry ones.

Am I asking too much if I ask you to post a step-by-step guide with all the necessary files?

Thank you again!!

 

[Trel725]

Okay, I will try to do it on a holiday.

 

[Miregix]

Okay, I will try to do it on a holiday.

Thank you very much,

i read your tablet is broken,
so for any testing you might need, just let me know!

:good:

 

[Miregix]

Okay, I will try to do it on a holiday.

Nevermind,
it looks like I've managed to make it works following Geometry's guide on Github page (link on the first page) and grabbing the files directly from there.

Thank you anyway for your willing!

:good:

 

[muryoh]

I just tried running Xubuntu 14.04. I'm surprised to say it easily booted it feels very reactive. Great, thanks a lot for all those involved!

I am having 2 issues:
1. Wi-Fi is not working (at least not from the network manager applet). iwlist wlan0 scanning works though. I am running kernel-cmaalxhb-17.tar.gz kernel, as I wanted to be able to use multiboot and this seems to be the appropriate recommendation. Do these symptoms look familiar?
2. multiboot is not working for me. I am fastbooting in multiboot alright, but selecting "Linux" ends up in the tablet rebooting into cyanogen. Is there a trick?

Kudos again for the great experience
Cheers

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2. multiboot is not working for me. I am fastbooting in multiboot alright, but selecting "Linux" ends up in the tablet rebooting into cyanogen. Is there a trick?
Cheers

It was indicated in the README (https://github.com/Trel725/tf701#using-kexec-bootloader) but the multiboot image has to be flashed. It cannot just be booted to and used as is. I guess something's stored and on the next boot it knows it has to boot the selected entry.
Flashing it to boot fixed it. Great!

 

[muryoh]

1. Wi-Fi is not working (at least not from the network manager applet). iwlist wlan0 scanning works though. I am running kernel-cmaalxhb-17.tar.gz kernel, as I wanted to be able to use multiboot and this seems to be the appropriate recommendation. Do these symptoms look familiar?

I'm not sure what the problem was. I uninstalled network manager and installed wicd instead. It wasn't working at first because it was considering "wlan0" as a wired interface, but changing that in the configuration made it work.

Maybe there was some tinkering to do with network-manager in order for it to work?

Anyway, I'm running a fully fledged linux distribution and I am very happy. Anybody who participated in getting Linux to work on our TF701 has my thanks

It does seem to have hiccups sometimes. At some point I loaded up some random page in chromium and it would restart X. But that happened a couple of times and is now working great. I am actually typing this on that Xubuntu while some epub's are being converted by Calibre to mobi's. Really nice.

Cheers!

 

[deltask8]

ok guys that is totally cool but you linux gurus how did you port the kernel from ubuntu to tablet? so the question is stops me installing these things so sgs3 lte? yes you heard it right it would be totally useless because small screen but it would be even cooler so could i somehow extract the kernel from maybe cyanogenmod 9? or other version? and could i then insert it into the ubuntus kernel location?, btw i dont need that s3 so that means i dont need android at all so could i intall ubuntu to the android partition from the adb shell?

 

[linuxisti]

If anyone can re-upload Debian Wheezy rootfs i would be most thankful

 

[Geometry]

updated kernel with BFQ

This post is for those of you still interested in linux on the tf701t.

I have posted an updated kernel in the repository (see the ~/kernel subdirectory): 3.4.113-cmaalxhb-22

As with my previous posts, this is a pure linux kernel and based on the cyanogenmod source (this time the cm-12.1 branch).
It is updated with respect to bug fixes, has impoved security settings and includes selinux (disabled by default).
What is more, it includes the BFQ scheduler which should yield improved I/O latency, see here.

Installation instructions are in the readme. See the section "Kernel".

Note that this kernel should be compatible with basically any linux distribution that works on the tf701t.

 

[stragnagn]

This post is for those of you still interested in linux on the tf701t.

I have posted an updated kernel in the repository (see the ~/kernel subdirectory): 3.4.113-cmaalxhb-22

Thanks a lot! Will give a try!

Has someone succeeded in trying a newer distro? Something like 16.10?