4GOOD CL110

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Reason: A following article is an *active* work in progress. Currently it only indexes some main issues on the forums. Ideally, this article should also deal with the some of the issues of the infamous rtl8723bs chipset on Linux. (Discuss in Talk:4GOOD CL110)

This article serves as a temporal indexing directory for the issues of running Arch Linux on 4GOOD CL110 Cloudbook until there is time to improve, and possibly rewrite it. As much as it would be desirable to keep this article wikified - I am afraid that it will have to stay informal for the time being.

This article has been abandoned since I am no longer using this device. No further updates are to come in the foreseeable future.

Hardware

CPU: Intel Atom Z3735F, 4 cores, up to 1.83 GHz
RAM: 2048 Mb, DDR3L-RS 1333 Mhz, integrated
eMMC: 32GB
GPU: Intel HD Graphics Gen7 4EU, Valleyview, 620 MHz, up to 1268 MB(drawn from the mainboard RAM)
LCD: 1366x768, 11.6" widescreen
WLAN: Realtek RTL8723BS , 802.11 b/g/n SDIO
CAM: 0.3 Mpix
BAT: LI-ON 10000 mAh, 5-7 hours. Uses 3.5 DC-jack.
Bluetooth 4.0, microSD card reader(64GB), 2x USB 2.0, miniHDMI
Touchpad:

UEFI

This model has a 32bit UEFI 32bit UEFI boot image instructions After that the process is pretty straightforward and the installation is no different to that of a normal Arch system.

CPU

There are multiple CPU-related issues, which if left unaddress may turn one's computing into a hell-like experience.

CPU-related hard-freezes

A single major CPU issue are the hard freezes, common to many bay-trail devices . A simple solution to the problem is to add "max_cstate=1" option to the kernel parameters.

cpufreq

Coming soon...

Multimedia

Audio

Audio driver is not in the mainline yet, and I had no way of testing whether it is even going to work. It is a rather unpopular laptop, and I do not see how this is going to change. However, you are welcome to contribute to this article if you know of any regular bay-trail audio drivers. I suggest using a USB soundcard.

Video

The on-board graphics uses the Intel driver. Install xf86-video-intel. Xorg will only start with the following syntax:

startx -- <other flags>

Such as

startx -- -keeptty

Aside from that, there are no out-of-the-ordinary configuration steps. Consult Xorg and Intel for more information.

Webcam

The webcam is not supported and there is not even a driver for it.

Networking

Wireless

Wireless is provided by r8723bs SDIO driver. Rather unstable, but it is still usable. See #See also

Input

Touchpad

A nightmare. It is a mono-pad, that has no buttons on it, but that is not the main issue. The big thing about the touchpad is that it is generating random characters when you tap at it is edges. Another issue - it is not a Synaptic, so it does not benefit from any of the synaptic-related settings. The driver comes from the xf86-input-libinput package.