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#language en # How to install Debian/Linux on a HP Stream 7 tablet

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The purpose is not to duplicate the Debian Official Documentation, but to document how to install Debian on some specific hardware.

If you need help to get Debian running on your hardware, please have a look at our user support channels where you may find specific channels (mailing list, IRC channel) dedicated to certain types of hardware.

Models covered
Stream 7 5701

Sub-model (K4F52UA) options :
- Video card: Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail)
- Screen size: 7" diagonal multi-touch IPS (1280x800)
- Wireless/Bluetooth adapter: Realtek RTL8723BS Wireless LAN 802.11n SDIO with integrated Bluetooth 2.1/3.0/4.0
- RAM: 1GB
- Storage: 32GB eMMC, 32GB SD (removable)
- Port: Micro USB 2.0 B
- Webcam: 0.3MP front-facing camera, 2.0MP rear-facing camera

Overall Status

Core Components

[ATTACH]

Boot Standard Kernel:

{OK}

LAN network card:

[-]

Detect CD/DVD:

[?]

Detect hard drives:

{OK}

Extra Features

CPU Frequency Scaling

{OK}

Hibernation

[?]

Sleep / Suspend

{i}

Xorg

[?]

- OpenGL

[?]

- Resize-and-Rotate(randr)

[?]

UI Scaling

{i}

Switch to External Screen

[-]

Touch

{OK}

Mouse

- Built-in (Trackpoint)

[-]

- Built-in (Touchpad)

[-]

Modem

[-]

Wireless/Wifi

{OK}

Bluetooth

[?]

Keyboard's Hotkeys

[-]

Audio

{OK}

~-Legend :
{OK} = OK ; {X} Unsupported(No Driver) ; /!\ = Error (Couldn't get it working); [?] Unknown, Not Test ; [-] Not-applicable
{i} = Configuration Required; X-( = Only works with a non-free driver and or firmware

Important Note(s)

On deleting the Windows recovery partition

Connecting keyboard input and install media

Turning off fast startup (Windows 8.1)

Disabling secure boot

Installation Image[s]

- https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-12.1.0-i386-netinst.iso
- https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/bt-cd/
- https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/bt-dvd/

Although the CPU is capable of 64-bit computing, the UEFI is locked to 32-bit only.

Note: Despite info on the last two links, non-free firmware is included in Debian installers for Debian 12, Bookworm, and up.

Configuration

Display

Mostly works out of the box at native (800x1280) resolution, but UI scaling will be too large until you set this manually under Settings > Display. Select one of the listed 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions without tapping "Apply," then select "800x1280 (16:10)" and tap "Apply" to rescale the GNOME UI to something more manageable.

Note that none of the 4:3 resolution settings work.

Successfully tested with Wayland.

Enabling backlight control

sudo apt install dracut

dracut -f --omit-drivers="i915"

You may ignored any warnings of nonexistent modules while this processes.

Restart

Bug discussion: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/26.

This will case the tablet to take a little longer to restart/turn off, and might throw you into debug the first time; just hold power button to force the unit to turn off.

Audio

A single small mono speaker, and the audio jack has no audio distortion as was reported when it was released with Windows 8.1

Multitouch

Power Management

Without the dracut i915 fix above, both suspend and hibernation appear to result in device shutdown when entering either state. With the fix applied, briefly press the power button to awaken the device.

To power on, hold down and release power button after 5 seconds.

WiFi

Bluetooth

On-screen keyboard

To prevent the keyboard from being partially clipped off of the screen, install "Gnome Extension Manager," then install an "Improved OSK" extension (there appear to be multiple versions, I'm using the one by nick-shmyrev.dev). I suggest setting "Portrait Height" to 23 percent, and "Landscape Height" to 36 percent. The keyboard may be slightly inconsistent, but it appears to not be clipped if the cursor is in text entry field. There are four or sometimes buttons that say "..." and one of them sometimes says "?..." The latter switches to numbers and special characters, and probably one of them is caps lock.

System Summary

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series SoC Transaction Register (rev 0f)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0f)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx, Celeron N2000 Series USB xHCI (rev 0f)
00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine (rev 0f)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Power Control Unit (rev 0f)

lsusb

lsusb -v | grep -E '\<(Bus|iProduct|bDeviceClass|bDeviceProtocol)' 2>/dev/null 

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         3 
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller

USB Host controllers entries (without OHCI, UHCI, EHCI) are removed too.

Resources

Attachments

Some configuration files and sample outputs.

  • [get | view] (2022-04-16 06:52:39, 10.3 KB) [[attachment:dmidecode.Stream_7_5701_K4F52UA.txt]]
  • [get | view] (2023-08-10 20:57:14, 6.2 KB) [[attachment:lsmod.Bookworm_HP_Stream_7_5701.txt]]
  • [get | view] (2022-04-16 07:01:57, 6.6 KB) [[attachment:lsmod.txt]]
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Credits

?ClaraLopez, MicahHaber

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