Hmm good find on that Linux 4.10 possibly fixing the display problem.
In order to confirm this should I perhaps find a generic debian
distribution and try it? I'm not in any hurry, so a fix in October is
still exciting.. and if I'm ever in a hurry I'll just have to join the
effort and do the work myself!
While I have your attention, are there log files I should be looking at
or commands to try to get an idea why the internal network adapter isn't
being detected? So far I tried one external network adapter that also
wasn't detected, though I'm sure there are external ones that would work
fine.
Many thanks for all the great work you do...
David
On 04/15/2017 04:37 AM, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> [dear help desk (Cc'ed), please document on our Known Issues page that
> Intel Atom "Cherry Trail" systems may need the nomodeset option.]
>
> David Thomas:
>> I downloaded the experimental ISO last night from the link you supplied. Here are
>> some results.
>> UNSUCCESSFUL CASES
>> [...]
>> SUCCESSFUL CASE
>> Normal Boot with quiet taken away and nomodeset added: boots all the way up, as with
>> beta3, but can't use display setting or xrandr command to fix the 90 degree screen
>> rotation, and (as I plan to report separately) no network card detection.
> OK, so this is a different problem than #12219. A quick web search
> tells me that it's a common problem with Atom "Cherry Trail" systems.
>
> FWIW I've read somewhere that Linux 4.10 might fix this problem,
> thanks to this commit:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=bb98e72adaf9d19719aba35f802d4836f5d5176c
>
>> I'm happy to try anything else you might suggest.
> Sadly, at this point I think our best option is to wait until Linux
> 4.10 is available in Debian backports and Tails includes it (my best
> guess is that this will happen in Tails 3.2, currently scheduled to be
> released on October 3rd), or until the fix is backported to the Linux
> 4.9.x branch (I wouldn't bet on this ever happening unless someone
> pushes for it and does some work about it).
>
> Sorry!
>
> Cheers,
