Nice! Thanks for sharing the tip bout the rotation. I’ll insert on main thread.
Regarding the cameras, I don’t remember if I tried to use them. Have you tried using a LTS version, not a 20.04, but the 18.04.4?
I do not own the chuwi anymore, so I cannot test. But, good luck
Manjaro doesn’t boot. Don’t know why. But thanks to your clue my sound works using KDE plasma based flavours (Ubuntu 19 not 18.4)
See you
Great Tutorial! Month ago I’d successfully installed Ubuntu-Mate 19.01 beside Win10, without Android at a separate partition (my favourite Xubuntu doesn’t support most things out of the box). Boot process not solved, SwitchNow is disabled and while booting I’ve to press F7 for UEFI boot menu to boot into Ubuntu. Now I tried to make an upgrade to 20.04 LTS, but it fails and so it was a clean installation of 20.04 - it works out of the box, again without silead touch support. unfortunately I don’t have my old .fw file. My Log say’s that my Chuwi Hi10 pro is searching for "silead_ts i2c-MSSL0017:00: Direct firmware load for silead/mssl0017.fw " - your blog link to onitake doesn’t references correct. I’ve found this link for Chuwi Hi10 plus: https://github.com/onitake/gsl-firmware/tree/master/firmware/chuwi/hi10_plus
But which file is correct, the firmware.fw or silead_ts.fw or something from folder below? And should I rename this to mssl0017.fw as seen in my log?
Thanks, Lutz
Sure that the kernel driver for silead touch firmware is included in Mate 20.04 or it’s neccessary to build a .ko ? (at ubuntu 18 it was neccessary, see: https://github.com/onitake/gslx680-acpi )
And do you have a working Stylus (HiPen2)?
I do not own a Chuwi anymore to help you out with this, but trying this will not damage your stuff… if it doesn’t work and you want to change back, just undo the renaming and folder movings.
Hey man… in order to make the dualboot work, things change a bit from what I’ve put on thread post. I have never had the intention of dualbooting so those instruction abore are not meant to this, but… you may try doing this:
Concept here:
Just after the BIOS POST, a built-in “program” is called where it present us the dual boot order. Android, or Windows. This program has routines for searching and picking ‘default’ filepaths.
For instance, for this program boot Windows, it needs to find an EFI partition, and this partition must have the following file in the following path: ‘/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi’. If it’s not like that, or mispelled, missing a character, it won’t work.
You do not need to build the kernel objects. It’s easier than you imagine…
Just go tho this website: https://github.com/onitake/gsl-firmware/tree/master/firmware/linux/silead
There you may download the appropriate firmware. They’ve corrected the filename (changelog: fixed mistypo). That’s why that link I provided is not working anymore:
https://github.com/onitake/gsl-firmware/blob/master/firmware/linux/silead/gsl1680-chuwi-hi10plus.fw
puedes hacer un vídeo de la instalación de los draivers del touch?
adicional si tienes los draivers de la cámara y micrófono?
Silead workaround:
Sure! Here it is! > https://youtu.be/KJbFaHRZDgg
The video description comments each command, if you have any doubts.
Camera, microphone:
I haven’t noticed the missing camera and microphone functionality when I was using the system, so I didn’t look for fixing or attempt workarounds.
I would need to investigate but I do not own this Chuwi anymore. If you’re not experienced with this, the only thing I might recommend then is to wait a kernel release with built-in “drivers”.
When I was trying to find a fix for touch issue I searched using:
$ dmesg | grep ‘silead’
To point for boot errors regarding the silead device. You may replace ‘silead’ for another string, such as ‘micro’ and ‘camera’ and try checking the output.
Hey,
Looks like what you had done on chromium custom flags 2 years ago, I got to do the same thing now.
I released a Chromium-armv7 base package to run libwidevine 
Nice.
I was using kusti8 release, but since it installs as a “chromium” package, it conflicts dependencies when apt-get updates… would you release as an another package? Github?
Well I have packaged it for Manjaro Arm aarch64 and it can also be used with Arch Linux Arm aarch64.
It launches chromium inside a docker image with hw acc and libwidevine.
muchas gracias por el video
Hi guys,
I need help.
I want replace windows with linux, but how can I install Ubuntu while keeping Android. How can I organize the partition?
Thanks
Important: Do not delete EFI partition. It contains boot files for all operational systems. If you delete it, Android will not boot.
After the conclusion there will still have a dual boot loader for Android and Windows. What you need to do next is to replace Microsoft EFI file by an Ubuntu EFI file.
Now whenever you boot for Windows, it will actually boot for Linux. We gotta do this because the EFI file path “BIOS” is set to only read specific paths for Android and Windows, forced by the manufacturer.
Hey Hello People!
Any chance to sucesfully install touchscreen driver on the latest Ubuntu MATE 21.04 ?
Copying gsl1680-chuwi-hi10plus.fw to /lib/firmware/silead/
Is not doing anything…
How to compile driver for this tablet…
I find this :
gslx680-acpi/README.md at master · onitake/gslx680-acpi · GitHub
And that: vi8/Ubuntu_instructions.md at master · Manouchehri/vi8 · GitHub
Tryed with 20.04 as well… same results… touch screen does not work.
Any idea for this @manonegra222 ?
dmesg | grep ‘silead’
says does not find mssl0017.fw or something in the silead dir so i
renamed to this and restart… After reboot behive like touchpad+right
button
https://youtu.be/jCb2rmAA5cM… Same behaving when use my finger.
Onitake says, who have this repo: https://github.com/onitake/gsl-firmware
“If it’s searching for mssl0017.fw instead of the proper firmware file
that you installed, that means you’ve got a device that isn’t supported
yet. Some vendors change their hardware in the middle of a product
cycle, which causes compatibility issues.”
I just share this info couse i see @LuRhe Has the same isue, and does not responded after @candidosobrinho.sa Shared the correct link to the firmware, which is clearly not working on my Hi10 Plus. Im curious @LuRhe can use his hipen couse i have too… or the same like me no succes with those …
How to enable touch screen in ubuntu:
xinput set-prop 'silead_ts' --type=float 'libinput Calibration Matrix' 2.15, 0, 0, 0, 3.22, 0, 0, 0, 1ATTRS{name}=="silead_ts", ENV{LIBINPUT_CALIBRATION_MATRIX}="2.15 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.22 0.0"