Hello Dan,
Dan Zulla dijo [Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 11:35:23AM +0200]:
> Dear Debian Friends,
>
> I have reached out to a member of the @debian.org community who was
> displayed on the website as a skilled engineer for the Installer, yet he
> advised me to go on the mailing list, So I am.
>
> I acquired a rather cheap laptop, a Samsung Galaxy Go with LTE, and that
> was about 300$. It is a nice piece of hardware, and anyone should be able
> to work on ARM64 with that price point and that comfort. I am well aware
> performance of the chip is mediocre, and compiling Debian is going to take
> a while.
FWIW, my main laptop for the last year has been a Lenovo Yoga C630,
which is also an ARM64 system. Let me tell you that I'm more than
happy with it, although I am more than aware it will never be a
fast compiling beast. And mine has an earlier CPU than yours! You will
find it to be quite snappy for non-intensive use.
I hope, though, you got the 5G version, as 8GB RAM is quite a
difference over 4GB RAM.
> (...)
> Are you available to be motivated .. to potentially advise? The Bootloader
> works. As soon as you try to run the installer, textual or graphical,
> crash. Not a commented crash. Just a total nuke of the CPU and reboot. Or
> just uncommented fail to switch into graphical model. (We should work on
> that, if that is the case.)
I cannot provide much help in this regard, but I can point you to a
group of people who most probably will. There is a group for
supporting ARM64 laptops under different Linux distributions at:
https://github.com/aarch64-laptops/
Particularly, they have a slightly modified Debian installer available
at:
https://github.com/aarch64-laptops/debian-cdimage
It is, yes, mostly geared at the Lenovo offerings. But it's a step in
the right position!
You can also join via IRC, at #aarch64-laptops in OFTC
(irc.debian.org).
> Do you have any insight or experience, or idea, about why Grub works?
> Ubuntu image boot displays something about being unable to establish
> graphics output mode, low-level wise. I am a high level programmer getting
> started low-level. I don’t know what that means. The display driver?
Well, I'd venture that Grub works because it is not Linux! It is a
completely independent, much easier system, and works by using UEFI as
its operating-system-of-sorts (which is provided by the
firmware). Linux wants to control hardware much more closely than
Grub.
