screen rotation could manually change to landscape in settings.
touch work well, stylus works very very well, in the canvas app even have pressure sensitivity.
onboard sound very well.
go to sleep when idel, press keyboard can wake up.
wifi works well
even the blue function keys on keyboard like Fn+arrow up is more bright, Fn+arrow right is louder sound, these 2 work well.
SPEED is super fast, super smooth.
my hi10x is celeron n4100, 6+128,
previous i don’t use online but i am sure it will very very lag, and even cant play youtube 1080p smoothly.
but /w ChromeOS flex, youtube can play at 1080p60fps and still smooth.
will report if anything not working later.
ps ChromeOS flex seems more legal than brunch+chromeos.
but ChromeOS flex cant run android apps yet (thru vm),
i haven’t test whether this particular model can use “linux beta”(thru vm).
Hello. I have tested Chrome OS Flex from the USB on my Chuwi Hi10 X and everything seems to work except the audio not working. I’ve been looking, but I can’t find a way to fix it and it’s a shame because I like the system for this tablet. Any ideas to make it work? Thank you!
i got a Hi10X /w serial H6 something, then also a Hi10XR;
i have booted OS flex from usb from BOTH and the only thing that doesn’t work is:
screen auto rotate
tf slot
I am now dual booting windows + fydeos on hi10xr, the same problem as fydeos is based on OS flex.
yet fydeos have android runtime, also support dual boot.
I hacked /w refind so the win10 is encrypted /w bitlocker and secureboot; i don’t trust fydeos as it’s from a small Chinese company. i wont use them without encrypting the win10.
I have the version with Intel Celeron N4120 processor. I have read that there are several versions with the same name and different hardware. On my device it seems that the MicroSD card storage is recognized without problem, but the screen rotation and sound does not work…
I have sent a request to Google from the help section of the system itself, attaching a log, but with just my request I don’t think they will investigate. Maybe if they get several…
As far as the sound goes the N4120 variant of the Hi10 uses the ES8336 codec for sound.
Support for this was just recently added to the 6.1 Kernel for distros.
I am not familiar with Chrome Flex, but I’d imagine being a closed source thing you can’t just compile your own with the new Kernel.
Hopefully in time they update to the newest kernel which now supports the ES8336 codec.
Good morning. From the support of ChromeOS Flex I have also responded that the sound card is not supported by the current kernel of the system, which in future updates will be supported. I guess I’ll have to wait… Thank you!
I got a hi10x bought in 2020 something, seems working fine /w fydeos (shd be base on chromiumos just like chromeos/flex)
then i also bought a hi10xr in 2022, this one i dual boot win10/fydeos:
i brought it to gym everytime, watching youtube (thru fydeos ofcause, win10’s touch is no good) via bluetooth. i do remember the speaker also have sound.
so i have no idea why you people say the n4120 ?variant have no sound on chromiumos alike.
i could shot a video if someone pay me usd5. i don’t have “free as in beer” time to spare on untrue facts.
and i am not going to claim any more. it simply worked for me.
someone could have a proof for usd5, as a video. thx
from what i remember, BOTH hi10x, hi10xr have sound support in any of chromeos flex, fydeos.
The N4120 CPU uses an Everest Semiconductor ES8336 codec chip which had only partial support for some time now.
Your reply is rude and unnecessary…
While I can say I know little of FyDEOS, it is certainly possible it has supported the ES8336 codec for sometime. Being the ES8336 and N4000 series is a commonality among many low price point Chinese offerings. i.e. Huawai, Chuwi, off brand laptops on Amazon.
What I stated was up until recently (when Kernel 6.1 added support for this code) the codec wasn’t a mainline linux supported codec.
SOF has offered a codec solution for sometime, but it was not in a mainline Kernel until, again, recently. Kernel 5.19 added the ability to manually tweak in quirks to get the ES8336 working, but it wasn’t just ready as 6.1 claims to be.
ChromeOS can be made with a newer Kernel IIRC, which should theoretically give @darksidecorrales sound if he so chose to go that route. But that isn’t an option for ChromeOS Flex.
The smallest of a Google Search would have shown that, but I’ll save you the time you don’t have to spare with a link.
It’s well documented the intel N4000 series uses the Everest Semiconductor ES8336 audio chip.
It’s also well documented that full support for the ES8336 was only recently added to mainline Linux Kernel 6.1.
Marking my posts as “against forum policy” doesn’t change that.
Future people searching for help (because they don’t have sound on Linux as is quite commonly searched for as one could see on Google) would benefit from knowing this.
Got a Chuwi Hi10X with N4120 here. Not Hi10XR, not Hi10X with N4100.
Sound goes through an Everest ES8336 or similar (maybe ES8316) chip, with non-standard wiring, nobody (even in SOF project) has managed to figure out the wiring of the speakers, though with experimental firmware and kernel people have gotten the headphone jack to work.
HDMI audio goes through the Intel chipset, so it bypasses the Everest chip completely and therefore works fine on Linux too. I think bluetooth audio worked too last time I tested it, again that has nothing to do with the ES8336.
That explains your previous posts above, you aren’t using the same device as we @Spamdrick or myself and all the others that are reporting audio issues. You have an earlier N4100 Hi10X and a N4120 Hi10XR, not an N4120 Hi10X.
