I want to buy the Asus Transformer book T300 chi, its a very nice computer and I think it'll suit my needs very well. But I can find virtually no information whatsoever regarding whether linux runs well or at all on the device.

The device is one of those detachable-screen 2 in 1's. Its a pretty normal laptop as far as 2-in-1s go, it doesn't use eMMC storage and its cpu is fairly normal compared to others out ther. It has an intel core M processor, 128 gig iSSD, touchscreen, but its keyboard is bluetooth, which could be a problem.

Just wondering if anybody out there has any experience running the most current (4.1) kernel or any others on the device and if they've been successful.

More detailed hardware info (RAM size)?

Here's the spec page.

The memory is LPDDR3 1600 MHz SDRAM, 4gb with 2gb onboard memory.

I haven't found a wealth of information either but I'm hoping it's relatively smooth. I've just paid for mine, and should be receiving it in the next day of two. I'll be attempting a triple boot with the preinstalled windows, ubuntu studio, and android. I'll let you know how it goes.

After a few tries to boot the Debian installer I've given up on the MicroSD card slot, looks like the BIOS can't access it. The iSSD can be booted using compatibility mode, but you'll only get the typical try booting from another disk msg.

There is a firmware flash mode in the BIOS I'll try that next, hoping to access the iSSD in fastboot mode!

I'd like to avoid tainting the Windows install by booting it, so I can archive a clean copy. Afterwards it'll be purged to avoid wasting iSSD space. Failing that it'll be goodbye-microsoft.com, colinux isn't an option because it's win64.

Hold Vol Down then Power activates the boot menu. The "microsoft" button below the vol rocker acts as a select key. The two options are windows and setup. Setup is a typical BIOS, but is touch enabled. I found that the zones where a little lower then the text but this could've been the angle I was viewing from.

The flash utility in setup was for reading an image file from the iSSD. It was also unresponsive to the contents of any MicroSD.

I booted Windows installed Chrome browser then tried the win32-loader(Debian bug 775055) and grub2win. Looks promising, but can't boot Windows or see the MicroSD(even with Grub loading the USB stack). The MicroSD shows in windows and is accessible. I'm at a loss for what to try next.

I did manage to get win32-loader to run using compatibility mode, but on boot it give a 0c000007b error from /g2ldr.mbr

It's possible to boot a USB stick(using the onthego port, it's longer than microusb while being microusb) I used DriveDroid and my phone along with the keyboard charging cable that was included.

I disable secure boot and launch CSM in the BIOS.

Grub was unusable without a keyboard. I edited, via hexedit, a Debian live image to boot on timeout. It may not be at the same offset, but do a text search for "timeout 0"

Change "timeout 0" to "timeout 2" and on i386 images you may also want to change, search for "^Live", vmlinuz1 and initrd1.img to 2. I use i386 because most games are win32 and it's a pain to use multiarch on Debian for a single application(wine).

The Debian installer was usable up till you have to type something, the size to shrink the ntfs partition was what prevented the install for me. Though I'm attempting to boot a Live CD, other than debian-live-8.1.0-i386-standard.iso, but it'll take another hour to download here. This does seem possible and it shouldn't then take much to either get sshd or the keyboard working to start an install that way. Unattended installation is also an option.

This PPA has a kernel with Invensense MPU device drivers.
https://launchpad.net/~cheako/+archi...0chi/+packages


load modules:
coretemp
inv-mpu6050

For CPU temp sensors and acceleration sensor respectively.

I have a t300chi in fact I'm typing this with it right now. I tired installing Fedora at first but it crashes before it could boot into the desktop environment. After that I tired installing Linux Mint and was able to get it up and running.

I'm running Linux Mint on a T300chi right now. It mostly works, I paired the bluetooth keyboard and it works but I can't configure the trackpad on the keyboard. The trackpad settings in system settings doesn't affect the bluetooth keyboard's touchpad, as a result I couldn't get two finger scrolling to work with the touchpad or any other kinds of custom gestures. Also I paired a bluetooth mouse and that works, however around every 15 mins the mouse disconnects and I have to turn the mouse off and back on to reconnect. The mouse works fine in Windows so the problem isn't the mouse. The battery/power indicator cannot distinguish between being plugged in and being on battery power so separate power profiles doesn't work.

If any of you here know how to fix these problem, it will be much appreciated.

Sounds like a good solution, I've problems after resume with the touchscreen and pasting with the touchpad.

What brand/model mouse? If you use USB OTG with a Bluetooth adapter, does the mouse work?

The brand of the mouse is Tecknet model: BM306. I'm not using a bluetooth apapter, I'm using the built in bluetooth receiver. The mouse works fine, and then around 15 mins or so randomly disconnects.

Try with another bluetooth adapter! This will rule out either the adapter/receiver or the OS. Currently there are just too many components to even guess what the cause could be.

I just uploaded a replacement iio-sensor-proxy that is functional.
https://launchpad.net/~cheako/+archive/ubuntu/t300chi/