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I just want to mention that Fedora 28 KDE works fantastically on this device. Few configurations needed to get the hardware good with stock kernel 4.16 after stock ISO installation: - copy the touchscreen config file (https://github.com/stockmind/gpd-poc.../40-touch.conf) to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-touch.conf to rotate it - copy the xorg config file to rotate the login screen (https://github.com/stockmind/gpd-poc...0-monitor.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-monitor.conf) - run two scripts (alsa.sh and fix_wifi.sh here: https://github.com/e-minguez/gpd-pocket-fedora) to enable wifi and audio/mic - in KDE Displays menu, rotate the screen and set scale factor to 1.7 I'm using it as my daily machine connected to an external screen and USB hub. Very snappy and incredible battery life (10 hours or so?!?). Extra tip: install the ScrollAnywhere addon in Firefox, it makes it easy to browse the web with the touchscreen. |
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(using Ubuntu at the moment) I had downloaded their latest 17.1 for a different project, and I see it boots okay (screen is sideways, :rolleyes: of course) I wonder if the fixes would work for this, zero free time at the moment but maybe I can squeeze some time to check later. |
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Mine is admittedly a second-hand device and it is possible that the previous owner did not set it up optimally. It is also the Gnome version rather than KDE. Still, there were inexcusable glaring issues with it, such as the Settings application crashing with a kernel fault when I was trying to edit users, and then refusing to start again until I logged out completely and back in again. There was a pending OS update that fixed that but it did not fix other issues, such as...
Maybe you are used to "small things" like that but I expect things to work flawlessly and out of the box. Quote:
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It's been a long time since I used Fedora, so what I'll write here will probbaly be outdated or very generic. Quote:
Open /etc/systemd/system.conf and activate the entry for ShowStatus=yes (remove the # at the start)! This should at least give you useful messages during boot and shutdown. Most likely there's some service that's not starting/stoping correctly and waiting for the default 90sec timeout. Quote:
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So at some point you have to rotate it in software. This is nothing a generic install medium should do by default. This can neither be blamed on GPD nor on Ubuntu. |
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I loaded a xubuntu iso from https://apt.nexus511.net/ and it works fantastic. (+ some minor tweaks) There are other newer efforts which may deserve a check. (I loathe ubuntu - but xubuntu is okay, for my preference) sound really can work lid really can sleep the machine you may need to scale the desktop settings depending which iso (My updates no longer work so I am looking to upgrade OS, which is why I was checking into MX-17.1) This device takes a small effort to get linux on it, but it is bread and butter for my commutes and meetings. |
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Regarding your other points, thanks for that. I know about yum and I suspected there were some tweaks one could do in a system file here or there but we live in the 21st century and I would really expect a nice GUI for such basic things. There is for example no excuse whatsoever for not presenting some progress bar or at least a rotating clock, galloping horse or whatever during startup or shutdown. |
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I was referring to the official Fedora 28 KDE (from here: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/download/index.html ). So it's beyond me why you compare it with Gnome, and don't even know how it was installed as you got it like that from somebody else. With the few instructions I included in my post, you should easily be able to get to my same setup which works great (I have 0 issues I know of). To address some of your points:
So if you have all these issues you speak of, perhaps you could try to install Fedora 28 KDE from scratch and see if you get the same as me. Note that for the few configurations I mentioned in my post you need to download some files on a USB key (or at least the wifi fix). |
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