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GNU Linux hardware reviews - something between tablet and notebook: the Lenovo Ideapad MIIX 510 12ISK - Can it Debian? - yes it can (Debian 11 out of the box Debian 10 rfkill reports hardblocked wlan)

Lenovo Ideapad: What is it and can it run Debian?

hint: it’s also not mine.

The Lenovo Ideapad is a “notebook-tablet” (a very slim notebook that pretends to be a tablet (it has a touch screen!) 🙂

can it Debian?

Yes it can pretty fast actually.

What is not working (yet) are the front- and back-webcams (tried with cheese, can not find any cams)

the specs:

<span style="color: #00ffff;">/scripts/bench/<a href="https://dwaves.de/scripts/bench/bench_harddisk.sh">bench_harddisk.sh</a>; # <a href="https://dwaves.de/scripts/bench/bench_harddisk.sh">https://dwaves.de/scripts/bench/bench_harddisk.sh</a></span>
=== harddisk sequential write and read bench v1 ===
starting test on the device that holds the current directory the user is in
no need to run it as root

========== writing 3GB of zeroes ==========
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
2147479552 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 14.152 s, <span style="color: #ffff00;">152 MB/s</span>

real    0m14.163s
user    0m0.000s
sys 0m5.685s
========== reading 6GB of zeroes ==========
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
2147479552 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 3.407 s, <span style="color: #ffff00;">630 MB/s</span>

real    0m3.434s
user    0m0.000s
sys 0m1.270s
========== tidy up remove testfile ==========

how to get started:

what is good:

  • the speed (i5 CPU & NVMe (!) harddisk) are pretty speedy good for a device that small 🙂
    • ok the speed is largely also attributed to GNU Linux Debian being very resource efficient 🙂
  • the touchscreen works very nicely and is usefull e.g. for selecting text:
  • close the lid, open the lid, resume from standby works perfectly 🙂 (well done all involved!)
  • they keyboard is also the cover, it could be a bit more “sturdy” (metal?) but it’s okay
  • is it noisy?
    • no. most of the time it sits quiet. when in bios longer time, the fan can be heared. but it’s not bad.

what could be better:

Debian 10: how to fix the wifi not working

“guess a hard block can be caused by multiple modules and/or firmware trying to use the same device” (creditz: https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3081141)

Debian 11 wifi works out of the box, in Debian 10, it is required to blacklist some kernel module drivers.

open a terminal and run this:

<span style="color: #00ffff;">su - root</span>
<span style="color: #00ffff;">apt update</span>
<span style="color: #00ffff;">apt install rfkill</span>
<span style="color: #00ffff;">while true; do rfkill list all; sleep 1; clear; done;
</span>

what this will do is output the status of all possibly hard or soft blocked devices.

now hit F7 or Fn+F7 (enable/disable flight mode = enable/disable wifi)

there should be changes visible in the terminal… still not wifi?

ok next step:

<span style="color: #00ffff;">echo "blacklist ideapad_laptop" >> /etc/modprobe.de/blacklist.conf
echo "blacklist acer_wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.de/blacklist.conf</span>
# then:
<span style="color: #00ffff;">reboot
</span>

#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #gnu-linux #hardware #review #debian #lenovo #ideapad

Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2022/01/23/gnu-linux-hardware-reviews-something-between-tablet-and-notebook-the-lenovo-ideapad-miix-510-12isk-can-it-debian-yes-it-can-debian-11-out-of-the-box-debian-10-rfkill-reports-hardblocked-wlan/

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