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Wasted weekends trying to make touchscreen work (ttrpg.network)

submitted 1 week ago by jnarical@ttrpg.network to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Got old x86 10.1’’ tablet for free, with one “small” caveat - 1 Gb of DDR3 RAM and 16 Gb of internal storage. It had Win 10 Home from factory, version from 2018 - which was able to squeeze into 600-700 Mb of RAM, leaving 300 to user.

Well, Antix works kinda decent, consuming 200 Mb when idle. MX Linux (xfce version) looks good but eats the same 700 Mb…

But the real depths of pain were making touchscreen work… spent 8 hours just on that and failed miserably. Tomorrow will go for a cheap android tablet…

The only thing it needs to provide - working flowkey app.

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[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What is the cpu? If something, zswap (250mb) with lz4 and zram (2gb on disk) with lz4 too, on a lightweight distro on btrfs with lzo compression might make it usable. Disk compression might make it usable on the disk side and memory compression might make it run at least not extremely bad on the cpu side. Maybe cachyos with gnome (i know, but it is the only DE with good touchscreen) can be at least usable.

If more things, I can try to help. I have a linux tablet.

Edit: Maybe more space (external sd card with btrfs and lzo) could be used as /home too, but only with more information given, what is the setup?

Edit: My config that I made it work and run decently:

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