Chuwi Minibook X N100

See Also: Teclast F5

Update 2023-12-26

After a few weeks of heavy use

The half-screen after sleep/hibernate/low-power/screen-dim issue is pretty brutal. What would happen is on wakeup the screen would split in two the bottom half would be a blurry mess that seemed to clean up as you typed frantic xrandr commands to try and get it sane. I went so far as to create a hot-key ctrl-alt-f that made the xrandr call I could bang easily sometimes requiring 5 or more tries until the screen was sane. With the installation of the SID kernel (Debian 6.6.8-1 (2023-12-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux) this issue appears to have been resolved.

So I will be updating a few things below, but as of now I am actually happy with this machine running vanilla debian with a number of tweaks. I have *everything* working and the latest kernel from SID seems to have resolved the crazy half-screen pixellation issue.

Hit F7 At the Chuwi Screen

Debian 12:

• Need USB-C / RJ-45
• Post Install:
• Enable bookworm-backports

  • deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main non-free-firmware non-free
    deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main non-free-firmware non-free

  • apt-get update
  • apt-get install linux-image-6.5.0-0.deb12.1-amd64
    • This fixes Wifi and Bluetooth with patch below.
• Grub
  • fbcon=rotate:1
  • i915.enable_psr=0 – Might be irrelevant with 6.8
• SDDM
  • /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
    • xrandr –output DSI-1 –rotate right
• Kernel
  • Enable backports repo
  • Install linux-image-6.5.x
• Bluetooth
  • cd /usr/lib/firmware/intel
    • cp ibt-0040-4150.ddc ibt-0040-1050.ddc
    • cp ibt-0040-4150.sfi ibt-0040-1050.sfi
• ScreenFix
  • /usr/lib/pmutils/sleep.d/99_xrandr

  • #!/bin/sh
    #
    #        Script: /etc/pm/sleep.d/99_xrandr
    #         Title: Cleanup screen / Half-Screen Fix
    #
    # Last Modified: 2023-12-07 22:00:04
    #
    PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
    
    case "$1" in
      suspend|hibernate) : ;;
      resume|thaw)
        DISPLAY=:0
        export DISPLAY
        xrandr --output DSI-1 --mode 1920x1200
        ;;
    esac
    exit 0

The Debian 6.6.8-1 (2023-12-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux kernel from sid, seems to correct the screen problems

• Add the sid repo to /etc/apt/sources.list
  • deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free-firmware non-free
  • deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free-firmware non-free
• apt-get update
• apt-get -y install linux-image-6.6.8-amd64
• Comment out the above enties in sources.list