There
are some devices and software that is not fully working, however,
some are working quite well and the system is reaching a usable
state.
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First
I would like to begin stating that this article is based on this
awesome guys instructions:
You
should not alter your device if you are unsure of what you are doing.
This is at your own risk.
What's working out of the box:
Graphics, Touchscreen, SD-Card, Power button, Touchpad.
What needs patching:
Wifi (poorly), Sound (with patches), battery monitoring, shutdown, blue-tooth
What's not working:
Camera, Suspend, hibernation, backlight, ambient light sensor, volume keys, screen rotation.
That
said let's dive directly into installing Ubuntu.
1.)
Make sure you are using the latest BIOS, which should be version 207.
2.) If
you are in windows you can create an Ubuntu startup disk using Rufus
Or if
you are in Ubuntu you can use the Startup Disk Utility which can be
found in the Dash.
3.) You
need to grab a few files to begin:
4.)
Okay we now have our basics to start. Insert your USB thumb drive
(make sure it is at least a few gigs)
5.)
Open up Rufus, most settings should be fine as is. Make sure your
USB is selected and there is a CD icon beside the word ISO. Select
that and navigate to the Ubuntu ISO you downloaded and select it.
Press START. There may be a window that pops up asking you to
download a file for compatibility. Just select yes and download it.
6.)
Your USB is ready, but not bootable yet. Navigate within the USB
drive files to this directory. USB/EFI/BOOT Here you will paste the
UEFI file you downloaded earlier bootia32.efi
7.) Go
back to the main area of the USB and creat a folder called Asust100.
Inside of this folder paste the rest of the files we downloaded
earlier. Leave the USB drive plugged in.
8.)
Reboot your computer. As soon as the computer begins to turn off to
reboot begin hitting F2 on the keyboard until you enter the
UEFI/BIOS. From here navigate and find the part that says SECURE
BOOT and choose the option to disable it.
9.)
From within the UEFI/BIOS go to the boot options and on the first
device selected press enter and select your USB drive. Save and
exit.
10.)
The tablet will reboot showing GRUB. Hold down CONTROL + ALT +
DELETE to reboot into the native resolution.
11.)
Press the letter “E” which will let you edit boot options. Move
the cursor down and delete “splash” and add this in the place
video=VGA-1:1368x768e
reboot=pci,force
Press
F10
You should now make
it to the desktop.
12.) Press the icon to install Ubuntu.
13.) PAY ATTENTION
14.) Do no just
select install, go to the last option that states custom install or
do something else.
Select “YES” to
unmount any drives. In the next area you need to shrink the windows partition.
DO NOT GET RID OF THE UEFI PARTITION. LEAVE IT INTACT!!!
I suggest a little less than half. Take that free
space and create a small section around a gig for SWAP and the rest
for the file system. I suggest only having the file system as root /
and not creating other sections.
Write down the the
partition numbers because you will need this and begin the install as
usual.
LEAVE the USB in and
reboot when done.
15.) Once again you
are faced with GRUB.
Press “C” and you now have a terminal like
interface with a cursor.
Type and replace
the “?” with the applicable numbering “linux (hd?,gpt?)/boot/”
Now type “vmlin”
and press TAB it should put the remainder of the name there.
Now type this
directly after replacing the “?” with the applicable numbering
which should be your partition “root=/dev/mmcblk0p?”
and now type this
after that “video=VGA-1:1368x768e reboot=pci,force”
You should have
something like this
linux
(hd2,gpt5)/boot/vmlinuz-3.13-xxxx root=/dev/mmcblk0p5
video=VGA-1:1368x768e reboot=pci,force
Press ENTER
16.) Now on the
fresh line type and replace the “?” with the applicable numbering
“initrd
(hd?,gpt?)/boot/
type “vm” and
hit TAB which completes the name
you should have
something like this
initrd
(hd2,gpt5)/boot/initrdXXXXX
Press ENTER
17.) Type “boot”
and press ENTER. If everything goes correctly you should boot to the
desktop.
18.) Wifi is not
working yet, but it will in a few steps. …....remember those
files we downloaded earlier? Open a TERMINAL and type “sudo
nautilus” and enter your password.
Nautilus will open
with root capabilities. Navigate to the USB drive and open the
folder where you saved the files from earlier. We are going to copy
some files... In nautilus, from the file menu open an extra tab so
it will have root capabilities too.
Navigate to
/lib/firmware/brcm/ and paste the “brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.bin”
file in your downloaded files that are in the other tab.
Navigate to
/lib/firmware/brcm and paste the “brcm/brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.txt”
file in your downloaded files that are in the other tab.
Navigate to
/lib/firmware/intel and then go to the
“linux-firmware-master-intel.tar.gz” file in the other tab and
extract the files and copy them to this directory.
Navigate to
/var/lib/alsa/ and then go to the other tab and find the file that is
called “t100_B.state” rename this file to asound.state and then
copy it to the folder.
19.) Close Nautilus
and wait for the terminal to return to the prompt. Enter the
following
“sudo modprobe -r
brcmfmac” and then enter “sudo modprobe brcmfmac”
With luck your wifi
device should spring to life and you can connect to the Internet.
Wifi however is still very poor.
If your wifi is
working then you can continue, if not you may need to use a USB wifi
adapter which you can now just simply unplug the usb thumb drive
while your computer is on and connect to the internet to do the
following steps.
20.) Install GRUB
to make booting work. Open a terminal if you do not still have it
open and enter the following
“sudo apt-get
update && sudo apt-get install git bison libopts25
libselinux1-dev autogen m4 autoconf help2man libopts25-dev flex
libfont-freetype-perl automake autotools-dev libfreetype6-dev
texinfo”
and install when it
prompts you to.
Then get the Grub
source:
git clone
git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grub.git
Then enter
cd grub
./autogen.sh
./configure
--with-platform=efi --target=i386 --program-prefix=""
make
When it quits and
stops with the word “make” displayed just hit enter again and
wait for it to finish
and then enter
cd grub-core
sudo ../grub-install
-d . --efi-directory /boot/efi/ --target=i386
and then
cd /boot/efi/EFI
sudo cp
grub/grubia32.efi ubuntu/grubx64.efi
Now you have to edit
grub here
Open /etc/default
grub in a text editor:
sudo nano
/etc/default/grub
And edit the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT exactly as we did before. When done, hit
ctrl-o to
It should look
something like this
save then ctrl-x to
exit. Then, to update Grub:
sudo update-grub
21.) REBOOT without
the usb drive in and you should be able
to boot into Ubuntu.
22.) Run updates and
reboot and if it does not already your sound should work. Do not
turn the sound up too loud.
23.) To start blue-tooth open a terminal and type "sudo nano /etc/rc.local"
add "hciattach /dev/ttyS4 bcm2035 921600 flow" before "Exit 0" like this
then ctrl+o
then enter
and ctrl+x
reboot and it should work.
POST INSTALL
~ The Ubuntu Web Browswer has seen a major upgrade today July 31st, 2014. Now supports flash apparently and other UI upgrades. Great if using the T100 in Tablet mode.
