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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.
BIOS
Hit F7 At the Chuwi Screen
Installing Linux/Debian
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-cache search linux-image
- apt-get install linux-image-[>6.5]-amd64 (bpo)
- This fixes Wifi and Bluetooth
- Grub
- fbcon=rotate:1
- i915.enable_psr=2
- i915.mitigations=off
- mitigations=off (Let's assume we are not running a production VMware environment)
- net.ifnames=0 (Unless you like stupid names)
- SDDM / lightdm /login/greeter, Fix rotation at X launch
- Create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf:
Section "Monitor" Identifier "DSI-1" option "Rotate" "right" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "DSI-1" EndSection
- 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
Better Screen Fix
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