Sunday, May 31, 2015

Installing Debian Jessie ( i.e Debian 8 ) on Intel BayTrail Tablets

Recently I purchased Croma 8 Tablet which comes with Intel BayTrail Chipset.
This tablet has pre-installed Windows 8.1.

Intel Bay Trail Tablets have 32bit UEFI & 64bit Intel Atom Quad Core Processor & many Linux doesn't supported these tablets until Debian Jessie 8.

Debian Jessie natively supports booting on 32bit UEFI devices & shockingly it works nice.

Steps:
  1.  Download debian Jessie 32bit ( i386) or 64 bit iso. I downloaded LXDE Edition.
  2.  Format Pendrive with FAT32 Filesystem & Extract files from iso & copy them to pendrive.
  3.  Now boot from Pendrive & Start setup.
  4.  After Installation done, Reboot & make sure you edit grub2 entry of debian 8 & add "nomodeset" option  at last of linux line in entry else screen will go blank.
Now there are several things which are not working. As there tablets are new so hardware support is very limited.

On My Tablet:
Working:
  • Touchscreen

Not Working:
  • Wifi
  • Bluetooth
  • Battary level
  • 3D accelaration
  • Audio
  • HDMI
  • Sensors ( Device Orientation & others )
  • Power Management 


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