Dell Venue Pro 8/11 with ubuntu?

[togop2]

I have Intel Atom processor and Atheros wi-fi. Changing that would end the warranty, no?
Does anyone have a .deb of a properly patched kernel that works well and simply needs me to download the 3.0 firmware?

[isnogood2]

I usually just copy-paste from here:
http://www.yourownlinux.com/2015/02/...-in-linux.html

[isnogood2]

I resurrect this thread today to ask, how you guys get along with your Dell Venues. I wasn't able to get the touchscreen to work on any kernel newer than 3.18. Yesterday, I installed Ubuntu 15.10 and the touchscreen still won't work. Can someone tell me, if it's a good idea to downgrade kernel 4.2 of Ubuntu 15.10 to kernel 3.18? So far, I failed at finding a good desktop environment, that's suitable for touch input.

[isnogood2]

A patch to get the touch screen working is provided here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94281. I haven't tried it yet.

[alistair12]

Maxxsire, I'm running Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 on a Dell Venue 11 Pro Core i5-4220v, 64-bit, and I just can't get the touchscreen or the wifi to work. I chose Gnome for this device specifically because it is supposed to be so great on tablets. Do a search and you will find other Venue users have had the same touchscreen/wifi problems. Fortunately, I bought the dock and am using my Venue wired with a Wacom tablet. I am seriously considering dumping Gnome for Lubuntu or Xubuntu, since I am using it as a "desktop".

[isnogood2]

I'm now running Fedora 23 with Gnome. The touch screen is working, since I installed kernel 4.4. Unfortunately the automatic screen orientation doesn't work (worked with kernel 4.2). I guess, it has to do with the new kernel being a vanilla kernel.
Try installing kernel 4.4 on your Ubuntu. Maybe it will work.

[togop2]

Do you know how to fix wifi after suspend on fedora? Touchscreen works for me, too, with vanila 4.4

[isnogood2]

I haven't tried anything about this problem yet. But I remember something called "suspend modules", which takes care of this. Maybe it's mentioned in this thread.

[sac123]

Hi all,

was anyone able to use a linux distro productively on Venue 11 Pro?

I just received mine (Core-M) and installation went relatively smoothless (after I discovered that the ISO images should be written in DD mode to the USB stick with Rufus). I tested Fedora 24, Ubuntu 16.04.1, Kubuntu 16.04., Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.1, Kubuntu 16.10, Neon User 20, OpenSuse Tumbleweed & Xubuntu 16.04.1. However all had the following issues:

Fedora: cannot wake up after the screen has been switched of (lid closed or inactivity)
Ubuntu: no wake up problems (the screen is always on), but touchscreen is not precise (try to touch the Firefox menu button)
Ubuntu Gnome: cannot wake up after the screen has been switched of (lid closed or inactivity) & touchscreen is not precise (try to touch the Firefox menu button)
Kubuntu: the only supporting resume from suspend, but there's no Virtual Keyboard ( https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/bl...winwayland-5-7 )
OpenSuse: cannot wake up after the screen has been switched of (lid closed or inactivity)

Was anyone able to make suspend work on other distros? Seems the power button is not supported for locking ( https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102281 ), but as Kubuntu shows it can still be used to activate / deactivate suspend. This is somehow critical for me, but there are also some luxus issues:
- no tested distribution was able to rotate the screen automatically, although the HW support seems to be there: http://www.linlap.com/dell_venue_11_pro
- automatic brightness adjustment is not working
(all the other HW is working out of the box: front&back camera,WLAN,slim typecover&touchpad)

Would be cool if anyone could recommend a distro, already solved some issues or has some info if I'm just not using this correctly (I always tested without swap partition & fully encrypted system).

Update: Standby issue: Added a comment to Kernel bugs including some workarounds ( https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102281#c56 ). Solutions are there, but seems we need to follow some processes to get this into the distros.

[sac123]

OK, so everything comes down to: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102281

All HW is working, but Distro independent there are 2 remaining Kernel problems:
1. keyboard / dock changes are not recocknized by linux (leads to the problem that the keyboard is not always recocknized after re-docking the tablet, leads to the problem that it cannot be woken up after sleep / freeze)
2. power button is not recocknized (leads to the problem that it cannot be locked / unlocked or woken after standby / freeze / monitor disable)

If anyone knows Kernel ACPI or has some contacts within the linux ACPI mailing list, it would be great if you can support https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102281 (I also forwarded the case to Dell, seems some faulty BIOS implementation prevents quick submission of the kernel patch).