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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
Lenovo S20-30 & Lenovo S20-30 Touch

Overall Status

Core Components

[ATTACH]

Boot Standard Kernel:

{OK}

LAN network card:

[?]

Detect CD/DVD:

[-]

Detect hard drives:

{OK}

Extra Features

CPU Frequency Scaling

[?]

Hibernation

[?]

Sleep / Suspend

/!\

Xorg

{OK}

- OpenGL

[?]

- Resize-and-Rotate(randr)

[?]

Switch to External Screen

[?]

Mouse

- Built-in (Trackpoint)

[?]

- Built-in (Touchpad)

{OK}

Modem

[?]

Wireless/Wifi/Bluetooth

X-(

Keyboard's Hotkeys

[?]

Audio (Speaker/Headphone)

{i}

Legend :
{OK} = 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

Configuration

Display

The display adapter is a built in Intel GPU. Graphics worked fine on kernel 3.2, but the detected resolution didn't seem quite right - there was a tiny bit of panning left/right when I was using xfce. This was resolved by upgrading to kernel 3.16.

Audio

Sound is provided by the builtin Realtek ALC280 (analog audio) and built in Intel adapter for HDMI audio. Realtek audio was crackly/stuttering on kernel 3.2, which I was able to (almost) resolve by setting parameters to the hda intel ALSA kernel module by creating a file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf with the line: options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 position_fix=1 model=auto

With this line, upgrading to kernel 3.16 (currently available in jessie/testing or wheezy-backports) appeared to completely resolve the audio stuttering issues.

Mouse

Synaptic touch pad two-finger scrolling and mouse left/right buttons work out of the box on kernel 3.2 and 3.16. I haven't been able to setup 'clicking' just by tapping on the touchpad yet.

Power Management

I had issues resuming after suspend on kernel 3.2 - the screen would remain blank and the system appeared to be unresponsive (the caps lock light would not turn on, for example). Upgrading to kernel 3.16 appeared to resolve this issue.

WiFi

(Instructions for 3.16 kernel)

Nonfree broadcom drivers are required for the broadcom wifi chipset.

Install broadcom-sta-dkms from non-free repo. After the install, run 'modprobe wl' as root, and you should be able to setup wifi using NetworkManager.

BlueTooth

(Instructions for Debian-8.1/3.16.0-4-amd64)

You need to

Use the script found in Updated Steps for Enabling BCM43142 Bluetooth on Debian 8 "Jessie" Stable. If you don't have access to a Windows machine, you can use the firmware linked to from http://www.gnebehay.com/blog/lenovo-flexpad-bluetooth-debian/.

Modem


System Summary

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series SoC Transaction Register [8086:0f00] (rev 0e)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display [8086:0f31] (rev 0e)
00:13.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0f23] (rev 0e)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series USB xHCI [8086:0f35] (rev 0e)
00:17.0 SD Host controller [0805]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0f50] (rev 0e)
00:1a.0 Encryption controller [1080]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine [8086:0f18] (rev 0e)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio Controller [8086:0f04] (rev 0e)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0f48] (rev 0e)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0f4a] (rev 0e)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Power Control Unit [8086:0f1c] (rev 0e)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0f12] (rev 0e)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 08)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)

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 005: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
  bDeviceClass          255 Vendor Specific Class
  bDeviceProtocol       255 Vendor Specific Protocol
  iProduct                2 USB2.0-CRW
      (Bus Powered)
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  (Bus Powered)
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 105b:e065  
  bDeviceClass          255 Vendor Specific Class
  bDeviceProtocol         1 
  iProduct                2 BCM43142A0
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         2 TT per port
  iProduct                1 USB2.0 Hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:5608 Alcor Micro Corp. 
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  iProduct                1 Lenovo EasyCamera
      (Bus Powered)
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  (Bus Powered)
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.

Resources

Attachments

Some configuration files and sample outputs.

Credits