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Revision as of 13:53, 15 July 2011

This page contains experiences and setup tips for target devices for Plasma Active Tablet. If you are running Plasma Tablet on a device not listed here, or if you would like to share setup tips, please add this information. We would especially appreciate instructions for running Plasma Active on devices such as the N900, and panda/beagle board.

ViewSonic Viewpad 10

Key specifications:

10' tablet at 1024x600
Intel Atom
Hanvon touchscreen
Approximate price: 470€ (dutch brick n mortar store)

openSUSE 11.4

openSUSE 11.4 runs fine on this machine, graphics seem reasonably fast but the Blur effect in KWin's Dektop Effects has to be disabled
Problem with Hanvon touchpad, sending too many click events, makes touchscreen almost unusable. Update to 2.6.38 from openSUSE:Tumbleweed fixes this problem and makes it fully functional.
The system comes with windows 7 and Android 1.6 initially. One can keep the dualboot option, Android takes by default 2 GB of the internal storage, win7 gets the rest. The system boots with a standard grub, when installing openSUSE 11.4, make sure you note the grub config for Android so you can add this back to grub later on. oS 11.4 doesn't add Android automatically to grub's config.
Network via wifi works out of the box
Suspend works and is reasonably fast
Battery life 4 - 5 hours with web-browsing

WeTab

Key specifications:

11,6" tablet at 1366x768
Intel Atom
Approximate price: 350€; German ebay sells these devices out for ~250€

openSUSE 11.4

To install openSUSE 11.4 on this device you need to have a Bios, that boots directly from USB. To update the Bios, you need to install a Dos-Disk on a usb-stick with the new Bios. You must modify the MBR, that you can boot from this stick. Origin: german forum thead on www.wetab-community.com about flashing the Bios
After the installation of openSUSE 11.4 the touchscreen is not functional
- Removing of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-wacom.conf the touchscreen works fine
- Alternatively boot with the kernel parameter "usbhid.quirks=0xeef:0x72a1:0x40"
The system comes with WeOS, a modified Meego Linux. The dualboot with the grub bootloader from openSUSE 11.4 work without any problems. Only that you need to plug in a usb keyboard to choose an entry. The touchscreen is not functional at this stage.
Network via wifi works out of the box, after networkmanager is enabled in Yast.
Last step is to add the plasma-active packages.

External links: Installation report

MeeGo

This device comes with MeeGo out of the box.

Lenovo Ideapad 10

Key specs:

10' netbook with capacitive touchscreen
Intel Atom
large internal hdd
good testing workhorse.

openSUSE 11.4

openSUSE 11.4 runs fine on this hardware, including the touchscreen, suspend, etc. Multitouch does not work, unknown why, it works on MeeGo.

MeeGo

This device is also used by MeeGo as demo hardware for their discontinued Netbook UX.

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 * The system comes with WeOS, a modified Meego Linux. The dualboot with the grub bootloader from openSUSE 11.4 work without any problems. Only that you need to plug in a usb keyboard to choose an entry. The touchscreen is not functional at this stage.
 * Network via wifi works out of the box, after networkmanager is enabled in Yast.
+* Last step is to [[../Installation#Installation_on_openSUSE|add the plasma-active packages]].
 External links: [http://majewsky.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/review-plasma-active-opensuse-wetab/ Installation report]