Has anyone tried to run Linux on minibook X?
It would be great to have this run a lightweight distro, just having the keyboard, trackpad and wifi working would be enough.
What has been the support for vanilla linux from Chuwi products out of the box, historically?
Hello, it is not recommended to install Linux, some drivers may not be available after installation, thank you
Have you guys tried to run Linux on it?
I can live with minimal drivers, no sound, no accelerometer etc. is needed, only basic ones .
By the way, is Chuwi planning on launching a new version of Minibook X soon?
Hello to all.
Iâm also really interested to install Ubuntu in this beautiful machine, that Iâm still waiting (ordered in Banggood)
Someone had success to installa Linux ?
Could @ChuwiService test Linux in the Minibook X?
There are for sure lot of customers waiting for such Linux machine !!
I too ordered one from Banggood, in March 30, still waiting for them to ship it. They are selling it out of stockâŠ
It seems everywhere i read , that Fedora runs best on Chuwi machines, including the previous Minibook.
Hopefully the basic stuff will work.
Hi, Iâve had a Minibook X with Linux working.
almost works but some issues.
distro: Gentoo Linux
kernel: 5.17.6-gentoo-x86_64
Desktop Environment/WM: sway
The screen of Minibook X is initially adjusted to portrait layout. You can fix it by adding a kernel parameter to your bootloader(grub, systemd-boot, etc)
fbcon=rotate:1
On GUI environment (GNOME, KDE, sway and others) you may set screen rotation by each setting. Here is an example of sway($HOME/.config/sway/config)
output DSI-1 transform 90
In sway, you can adjust touch screen and stylus input by adding the parameter to sway config. But I donât test both well (just works)
input "10182:282:GXTP738:00_27C6:011A" {
map_to_output DSI-1
}
input "10182:282:GXTP738:00_27C6:011A_Stylus" {
map_to_output DSI-1
}
Works well with the latest kernel and linux-firmware combination. It seems no trouble. Here is the output of dmesg of iwlwifi driver.
[ 10.343107] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 10.344889] Loading firmware: iwlwifi-7265D-29.ucode
[ 10.349901] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Found debug destination: EXTERNAL_DRAM
[ 10.350108] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Found debug configuration: 0
[ 10.350650] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 29.4063824552.0 7265D-29.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[ 10.478392] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 3165, REV=0x210
[ 10.564629] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Applying debug destination EXTERNAL_DRAM
[ 10.596987] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Allocated 0x00400000 bytes for firmware monitor.
No trouble. works with uvcvideo driver. Confirmed with Google meet on Chromium browser.
Works well but sometimes hang for a while, chattering. Maybe it occurs in overheated situation.
Works well but often hang for a while. Maybe it occurs in overheated situation. Using a bluetooth mouse reduce your stress significantly:)
Charging is good both AC adapter(12V) port and USB-C port. I donât test power management feature deeply, like power drain issue and others.
The shutdown and reboot doesnât work well. The shutdown process is not completed in spite of executing shutdown(systemctl poweroff) command. The power LED remains on, the system remains powered. Reboot process isnât ether. The system isnât rebooted, stop at the same stage of shutdown(remains powered)
I hope @ChuwiService development team will fix it in the UEFI firmware.
Hi, I had almost the same experience experimenting with ubuntu 22.04, including the touchpad stopping working when the laptop is hot. The only difference is that sometimes it doesnât suspend when the lid close.
There are driver issues with power management in Linux (I think). It overheats fast (even when idling), and then it gets slow.
Hi @jeg thank you for your feedback. Fortunately we can have the kind support from the drm-intel community. Finally the dpms off/on, suspend/resume, and shutdown/reboot issue has gone away with the patched drm-tip kernel on my environment. So nice. If you are interested in this, letâs see this issue on freedesktop gitlab
The keyboard chattering and mouse freeze issues havenât been solved yet):
The power management feature issue isnât fixed either.
Wow, thank you, Iâll try the patch!
Hi all,
I tried the current Linux Mint, but these things do not work properly:
I am still trying to get it running.
Whatâs your desktop environment? (like Chinamon, Mate-desktop and others) It may not be the problem of Minibook X specific. If you use a wayland session, xrandr doesnât work.
Whatâs the version of the kernel on Mint?
Itâd be better to try the latest kernel (5.10.x seems a little bit older)
Touchscreen is working with i2c hid generic driver on my environment
[ 10.338372] input: GXTP738:00 27C6:011A Touchscreen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.2/i2c_designware.2/i2c-2/i2c-GXTP738:00/0018:27C6:011A.0001/input/input8
About WiFi please check my previous post, especially the iwlwifi-7265D-29.ucode fimware is loaded successfully on your environment.
It may not be the problem of Minibook X specific. If itâs regression of the kernel of Linux of Mint, It would be better to raise a issue to the Linux Mint community.
Hey there again,
just wanted to thank you for opening an issue on gitlab regarding the turning off the computer and having to force the shutdown. I updated to the new linux-5.19-rc0 and the patch is included as promised !
And i was wondering what temperatures youâre getting, doing mild work or watching HD video.
I never had a fanless laptop and it seems this jasper lake it has inside has a max Tjunction of 105ÂșC, which it seems pretty high, but it does bother a bit that sometimes it reaches 57ÂșC , the bottom temperature of the laptop gets pretty uncomfortable , not harmful but annoying. It doesnât help that where i live its been 38ÂșC âŠ
Disable âNative ASPMâ in the BIOS to fix this issue. And while youâre there, you could probably disable IME and cap CPU by temperature rather than power draw.
The 5.19 really solved the shotdown issue, very good!
Regarding the temperature I had to change the default TLP mode to battery, otherwise (in performance mode) the CPU would reach 68ÂșC and the casing would get really hot too. Now it stays below 57ÂșC.
One last issue for me was the keyboard chattering / getting stuck. This can be solved by resetting the keyboard driver in a shell script and I have a small icon for it in the tray. Either you can unload and load again the atkbd kernel or if you have a built in module you just reset the device by:
echo -n âi8042â > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/unbind
echo -n âi8042â > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/bind
The keyboard will then work properly again.
Thank you for your suggestion. Iâve already get free from this issue by using kernel 5.19 
Hi oloinhenderson,
are you successfully running linux on your minibook?
everything works amazingly, with the exception of keyboard and touchpadâŠ
They randomly stop working and i have to run:
rmmod -f i2c_hid_acpi && modprobe i2c_hid_acpi
This completely takes the joy of using the machine⊠i tried changing xf86-input-libinput by xf86-input-evdev, the touchpad didnât work (only the physical click) and eventually the keyboard also stopped working , similarly to when i was using libinput.
I wonder if more recent versions of BIOS address thisâŠ
Did anyone tried if disabling power management for USB or i2c devices using powertop will fix the touchpad and keyboard issues? It seems to be worth a try at least.
Edit: Nope, it didnât work for me 
I recommend a tweak for better power consumption and less heat. This is a good resource: CPU frequency scaling - ArchWiki
Mine was using the default driver - intel_pstate (cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver) and powersave (cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor) I decided to stick with it, and tune it for maximum power efficiency. Energy-perf bias was only at 6 (cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/power/energy_perf_bias), so ballanced, but I want it at maximum power saving, so 15. I installed cpupowercreated a systemd service:sudo nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/cpupower_energy_bias.service`
[Unit]
Description=Switch system CPU into powersave mode
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=-cpupower set -b 15
[Install]
WantedBy=graphical.target
Which will set the bias to 15 at each boot. I didnât notice any difference in performance, I hope it is doing something at least.
If you wanted maximum power efficiency, you could switch to cpufreq scaling driver, and ondemand governor, which should give you much lower power draw but will also affect performance.
I have been trying to find a solution for this myself, but have not been able to. Whatâs weird is that this seems to be less of an issue when running Windows â or at least, with my limited testing after re-installing Windows on mine to try it out, I didnât have the issue occur at all in the several hours I used it. I wouldâve definitely had the issue pop up if I was running Linux for that same amount of time.
I have been wondering if there is something we can do to modify a kernel parameter to have things behave a bit more like they do under Windows, but so far my attempts have not yielded any positive results. None of the parameters I tried for the i8042 module have had any impact on this issue, either.
Itâs such a shame, because I feel the same as you. Itâs actually such a wonderful little device, and pretty much everything works perfectly under Linux except this keyboard issue, which is such a big issue it canât be ignored or worked around (well, unless you use an external keyboard I suppose, but that defeats the purpose).
I really wish we can find a way to fix or avoid this issueâŠ