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DebianOn is an effort to document how to install, configure and use Debian on some specific hardware. Therefore potential buyers would know if that hardware is supported and owners would know how get the best out of that hardware.

The purpose is not to duplicate the Debian Official Documentation, but to document how to install Debian on some specific hardware.

If you need help to get Debian running on your hardware, please have a look at our user support channels where you may find specific channels (mailing list, IRC channel) dedicated to certain types of hardware.

Models covered
Archos 133 Flip

CPU: Atom Z3735F @ 1.33GHz
Video card: Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display
Screen size 13.3"
Wireless card: BCM43430 WLAN card
RAM: 2GB DDR2 1333MT/s

Overall Status

Core Components

[ATTACH]

Boot Standard Kernel:

(./)

Detect hard drives:

(./)

Secure boot:

[?]

Extra Features

CPU Frequency Scaling

[?]

Hibernation

[?]

Sleep / Suspend

[?]

Xorg

[?]

- OpenGL

[?]

- Resize-and-Rotate(randr)

[?]

Switch to External Screen

[?]

Built-in/Internal Devices

Keyboard's Hotkeys

(./)

Touchpad

(./)

Touchscreen

[?]

Wifi

(./) {i} X-(

Bluetooth

[?]

Sound

(./) X-(

MicroSD card reader

[?]

Built-in camera

{X}

Accelerometer

[?]

Legend :
(./) = OK ; {X} Unsupported (No Driver) ; /!\ = Error (Couldn't get it working); [?] Unknown, Not Test ; [-] Not-applicable
{i} = Configuration Required; X-( = Only works with a non-free driver and or firmware

Important Note

Things to know before installing Debian

  • The Archos 133 Flip is a mixed mode EFI system (i.e. a 64-bit CPU combined with a 32-bit EFI) already supported by the Debian Installer:
    • to install Debian 32-bit, use the Debian Installer for the i386 architecture;

    • to install Debian 64-bit, use the multiarch Debian Installer.

  • The WiFi card is difficult to configure from the Debian Installer environment, it is recommended to use a standard CD/DVD Debian Installer image (or use a supported WiFI USB dongle if the internet is really required during the installation);

  • Debian Buster supports Secure Boot, please check the Debian wiki page here and evaluate if disabling it or not;

Configuration

Display

Audio

The audio device is an Intel SST Audio / Realtek RT5651, it requires the proprietary firmware firmware-intel-sound and an ALSA Use Case Manager (UCM) file that is provided by the package alsa-ucm-conf. Installing these two packages and restarting the machine should be enough to have the audio device working.

Mouse

Power Management

WiFi

The wifi device is a Broadcom 43430a0 on-board SDIO device, it requires the proprietary firmware firmware-brcm80211 and a nvram file.

Inspect the syslog and check wich firmware the system tried to load:

sudo grep brcmfmac /var/log/syslog
# ...
brcmfmac_sdio mmc1:0001:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.bin (-2)
# ...

Then save the nvram-file as a .txt file with the same firmware name just found:

sudo mv brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.txt /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.ARCHOS-ARCHOS 133 FLIP.txt

Note that nvram-file might contains a wrong MAC address, but it is not a problem as the file is only a template.

Reboot the system or reload the brcmfmac module:

sudo modprobe -r brcmfmac && sudo modprobe brcmfmac

Modem


System Summary

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series SoC Transaction Register [8086:0f00] (rev 0f)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display [8086:0f31] (rev 0f)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx, Celeron N2000 Series USB xHCI [8086:0f35] (rev 0f)
00:1a.0 Encryption controller [1080]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine [8086:0f18] (rev 0f)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Power Control Unit [8086:0f1c] (rev 0f)

lsusb

lsusb -v | grep -E '\<(Bus|iProduct|bDeviceClass|bDeviceProtocol)' 2>/dev/null

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         3 
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1018:1006  
  bDeviceClass            0 
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  iProduct                0 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  iProduct                1 USB 2.0 Hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller

USB Host controllers entries (without OHCI, UHCI, EHCI) are removed too.

/sys/bus/iio/devices/

Sensors:

cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/name
BMA222E

cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device1/name
axp288_adc

Resources

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Some configuration files and sample outputs.

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