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TrekStor SurfTab wintron 7.0
I totally wanted this one, partly as a comparison to the Asus R2H. Which one is more usable/useful? We will see. Anyway, installing linux on this one is a PITA. But eh, see below.

Features

  • TrekStor SurfTab wintron 7.0, 7.0" tablet style PC compatible
    • System
      • Intel Atom Z3735G, 1.83GHz 2.2SDP
      • 1GB DDR2 (onboard)
      • 16GB (onboard SSD)
      • Intel HD Graphics
        • acceleration $file, 3D $file
    • I/O
      • 7.0" glaring capacitive touchscreen
        • touch $file, brightness $file
      • Wi-Fi $file, Bluetooth $file, (killswitch $file)
      • 1 USB 2.0 (micro) $file
      • Headphone $file, Mic $file
      • card reader $file
      • 0.3MP front camera $file, 2.0MP back camera $file
    • Power
      • cpufreq $file
      • S2R $file, S2D $file
      • only internal, non-replacable battery
      • ACPI events $file, keys $file

BIOS, Power and Keys

  • Hold power and volume-down for some time to power it off.
  • Hold volume-up and power the device up to enter UEFI
    • Oh fuck, UEFI!
      • Come on, its the 21st century, you have to deal with UEFI anyway!
    • Use volume and power keys to navigate
    • Or be smart and use a (powered) USB Hub and mouse and keyboard. Much easier.
  • The single USB port is either in host-mode (when a device is connected to it) or provides power to the system.
    • Yes, that means that whenever you connect any USB device, the Surftab is powered only by its battery!
      • Fuck!
        • Indeed!
    • Some guys on the $file mikrocontroller forum are thinking about solutions

Install Arch Linux


Its a bit tricky, the damn thing has 64bit processor and a 32bit UEFI. Most boot images are not prepared for this (weird, I think). Some are, but I wanted Arch Linux. Actually, the image is just missing the right UEFI-voodoo-magic-boot-file. The easy solution (compared to master new boot images with this file):
  • Download the multiarch image, dd it to a thumb drive and mount it
  • Download $file bootia32.efi and copy it into EFI/boot on the thumb drive
  • Boot it. You will end in the GRUB shell. Do this:

grub> set root='(hd0)'
grub> linux /arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201601
grub> initrd /arch/boot/intel_ucode.img
grub> initrd /arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
grub> boot
  • Profit!

I learned this Trick from a post on $file reddit.

Install missing driver


WIP

Install Androidx86


Its easy, just download the image, dd it to a thumb drive and boot it. Buuuuut...
  • The Display is rotated 90 degreee compared to the touchscreen

Links


Interesting Thread on the $file Mikrocontroller Form (german)
install Linux Thread on $file reddit/xpost_rdebian_after_long_hours_i_successfully/

Disposition


Passed it on to a friend.
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