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dCore on HP-Compaq TC1000
The HP-Compaq TC1000 is a 10.4 inch Tablet PC. It features the unique Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 processor (1 GHz), a NVIDIA GeForce2 Go 100 graphics controller with 16MB SDRAM and sports up to 768 MB of RAM.
Tested
- ub-dCore-trusty with LXDE — sm8ps 201505
Performance
The device runs very smooth and is incredibly snappy to react to user interaction. Picture yourself using the full LibreOffice suite in version 4.2 on such a device and you know what I mean. Hats off to the dCore development team!
Ethernet
The built-in Intel Corporation 82551QM Ethernet Controller needs the e100 driver plus associated firmware. The module is built into the kernel but the firmware is not available in linux-firmware{-nonfree}. Instead, it is included in the Ubuntu package linux-image.
Download the package for a suitable kernel version (ub-dCore-trusty is using 3.16.6 but the Ubuntu Trusty package for version 3.13 worked) and extract the folder '/var/lib/firmware/<KERNEL>/e100/'. Place it directly under '/var/lib/firmware/' (omitting '<KERNEL>') in dCore and add “var/lib/firmware/e100” to '.filetool.lst'. Issue backup and re-boot.
Wireless
The device originally came with a Mini-PCI wireless card that only supported 802.11b with WEP but not WPA. That card needs to be replaced by a more recent one.
Pen input
The pen uses Finepoint technology which needs the xserver-xorg-input-fpit X-driver. That driver is currently not available from any Debian-based repository. A request for custom packaging has been made in the forum.
Suspend
Suspending to RAM by echoing “mem” into '/sys/power/state' does not work, although '/sys/power/state' contains “freeze standby mem disk”. The screen briefly goes black and then returns with an error message stating that there is “no such device”.
Un-loading the tc1100_wmi driver changes the situation in such a way that the computer does go into suspension. However, upon resuming, it shows highly interesting screen effects and no user interaction is possible any more.
PCMCIA-slot
A CF-card gets detected by cardctl (from the pciutils package) but I have not found a way to access its content.
