Status and Questions

[Manuel]

Hello Georg and List,

Thank you for the helpful information!

If you control the gamma software wise, it should also give you more
battery shouldn't it ?

AFAIK the wireless issues have been resolves in recent firmware drivers :-)

Any recommendations for the external sound card ?

It should be quite small. I vision something like a sound bar with the
micro usb and you just kind click it into the side.... Does something
exist ?

If you plan to sell your Click please contact me (I'm also in Germany) :-)
-> Did you install it internal or on sd card ?

Could you post your systemd-workaround ? I think i would also use it, if
it is stable.

All the best

Manuel


On 05/30/2016 11:57 PM, Gee wrote:
> Hi Manuel,
>
> and welcome!
> I don't have time for a long reply right now, but as far as I know
> backlight control isn't working (yet?), at least it wasn't last time I
> tried - which was admittedly a while ago.
>
> You do at least get some battery information, so it seems like without a
> way to control brightness it allows for about 6h of usage. So it would
> be really great to save energy by reducing brightness to get longer
> battery life. I guess 6h isn't too bad, but I'm kind of spoiled by other
> systems that run more on the order of 9+h - which currently you won't
> get on Linux (Windows displays around 12h).
>
> There've been issues with the internal wifi, not sure what the current
> status is, some kernel's seem to be ok, others not. But you can use a
> compatible USB Wifi, which is what I've done, and I think Paul too.
>
> I don't remember how video playback was, but I guess the missing sound
> is a downer for that. You might try going with a cheapo external
> soundcard, but at some point the idea of mobility gets lost if you have
> to carry loads of extra stuff ;)
>
> For my planned main usage, typing LaTeX documents, backlight control
> would be the priority, not that I've got much influence on what might
> get better when.
>
> As a matter of fact, I haven't been using the Click Mini a whole lot,
> unfortunately, partly because I don't feel comfortable running with full
> backlight (I could dim it on the software side, but I don't like the
> idea of the unnecessary waste of battery life).
>
> In fact, currently I'm not entirely sure if I'll keep the mini, as
> recently I got a nice Thinkpad bluetooth keyboard and might end up using
> this with a Linux chroot on an Android tablet (if I get some lag issues
> with the ROM I'm using - there always needs to be something that's not
> working it seems).
>
> Don't take me wrong, I think the Click mini is a neat little machine,
> and I'm really happy to have seen so much progress on the support for
> baytrail, also and especially thanks to the efforts of this little
> community (many thanks especially to Paul and Nicolas!). Considering
> when I first tried getting another Baytrail tablet to run Linux about
> 1.5 years ago it didn't do squat, there have been major steps forward
> and it is quite usable. Personally, I still don't feel comfortable using
> it for my normal usage at this point, but it is probably possible
> depending on your aims and expectations.
>
> Oh by the way, I haven't actually switched away from systemd, and it
> seemed to work fine for the most part. There was one issue where it
> wrongly switched off the screen because it detected the lid closing or
> something, but Paul helped me to find a workaround for that. Considering
> some comments a while back, that problem might even be solved now, but
> haven't tried yet.
>
> This ended up longer than planned,
> hope it's a bit helpful!
>
> Best
> Georg
>
> On 05/30/2016 12:46 PM, Manuel wrote:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I'm very curious to buy myself this:
>> https://www.amazon.de/Toshiba-Satellite-L9W-B-100-Convertible-Touchscreen/dp/B00SYAFYS6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1464602993&sr=8-1&keywords=toshiba+click
>>
>> I want to run Linux on it of course, so i was reading the tread in the
>> Toshiba forum and the blog and finally this list :-)
>>
>> As far as i can gather there is pretty good support for it with a
>> patchset from Paul :-) MANY THANKS!
>>
>> So for me they are a few questions left before i buy this beauty:
>>
>> 1. Is the 4.6 kernel really more unstable in your experience than then
>> 4.4 ?
>>
>> 2. As far as i could gather back-light control is working and the SD
>> card read write issue is resolved with the patches from Paul, also wifi
>> is stable. Correct ? Could someone sum up the workings and the
>> non-workings for now maybe?
>>
>> 3. My use cases:
>> - Googleing
>> - Watching movies
>> - Writing text
>> - Stable! System (no lookups every 2 minutes etc)
>>
>> Here i see the biggest problem in the sound. I read that there where
>> patches for the sound but there was no explanation, on how to apply them
>> on which source driver and version.... Does anybody know more ? This
>> would be really helpful!
>>
>> How is video playback on Linux ?
>>
>> As I'm not a C programmer i sadly can not contribute directly. But i'm
>> more than willing to test new drivers/kernels etc. If you need help with
>> that please contact me :-)
>>
>> My plan is to install Linux on the device itself.
>>
>> Stuff i want to try out:
>>
>> - KDE Tablet interface
>>
>> Does anybody run KDE on this ?
>>
>> As a tipp, i would recommend to mention on the blog, that you need to
>> switch from systend to sysv :-)
>>
>> Thanks, looking forward to your replys
>>
>> Manuel
>>
>>
>>
>>
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