#1 2017-05-30 20:42:30

jrenaut

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Installing on Lenovo Yoga 720

I have a brand new Lenovo Yoga 720. It is beautiful and tiny and the keyboard is glorious. Unfortunately, it has Windows 10 and this makes me want to throw it out the window. I used Crunchbang for a while, switched to Debian when it stopped being supported, and now want to switch back.

I followed these instructions to create a USB stick with bunsenlabs live/installer on it.

In my boot settings I did the following:

Security -> secure Boot = Disabled
Configuration -> SATA Controller Mode = AHCI
Boot -> Boot Mode = Legacy Support
Boot -> Boot Priority = Legacy First

Now I can boot to the live version, but aside from being able to clear the "welcome" popup by hitting enter, the trackpad, touchscreen, and keyboard all don't work.

I'm not even sure where to go from here, and any help would be much appreciated.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Installing on Lenovo Yoga 720

the trackpad, touchscreen, and keyboard all don't work

Yes, the stock kernel is BunsenLabs is ageing now and will offer poor support for brand new hardware.

Debian stretch will be released as Debian 9.0 in a few weeks and will probably work well on your machine (firmware blobs permitting), we have an experimental script that can be used to transform a Debian stretch system but it is very much at the testing stage right now.

https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-ne … helium-dev

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jrenaut

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Re: Installing on Lenovo Yoga 720

@Head - thanks, I was afraid of that. Any use for a mediocre Python programmer working on a Stretch-based version of BL?

@Glenn - thanks for the suggestion. I have no experience with Arch so I'm a little leery.

I think I might try Ubuntu for a while until Stretch is officially released.

jrenaut

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Re: Installing on Lenovo Yoga 720

Holy crap wifi and the touchscreen work out of the box on Ubuntu 17.04.

@Glenn - I'll take a look at ARCHLabs. I really like how BL just gets out of the way. I don't like thinking about my operating system, I just like using my computer.

jrenaut

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Re: Installing on Lenovo Yoga 720

@jrenaut, ARCHLabs is actually a remarkably user friendly distribution... Even I can do it but Ubuntu's a perfectly awesome choice too and to that end, if you're still looking for a little openbox goodness but based upon Ubuntu...

Icebox

So after playing with Ubuntu for a bit, the general "who needs a keyboard?" approach turned me off. Currently installing updates on a fresh install of ARCHLabs. Touchscreen and Wifi work out of the box, still exploring.

jrenaut

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Re: Installing on Lenovo Yoga 720

Whoa, the keyboard automatically disables when I go to tablet mode. I wasn't expecting that to actually work.

One weird feature is that clicking links in Chromium using the touchscreen downloads the html file (mapped to right click save as I guess). Will have to track down how to fix that.

And then I need a good beginner tutorial on AUR and the main things to know about moving to ARCH.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Installing on Lenovo Yoga 720

good beginner tutorial on AUR

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository

the main things to know about moving to ARCH

The man page tells you everything you need to know:

man archlinux

More details here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance

I would recommend updating the system fairly regularly (every day if possible) and *never* perform a partial upgrade.

It's always best to upgrade the system every time you install a new package:

# pacman -Syu $package

But be sure to check the News Page first for any user interventions that may be required:

https://www.archlinux.org/news/

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