Implements : Netbook

Replaces : Archix

Hardware Info : us.toshiba.com

Contents

Specs

Make : Toshiba

Model : [CB35][6][?][6]-C3300

CPU : Intel Celeron 3215U

RAM : 4GB

SSD : 16GB M.2 NGFF SSD 42mm

Storage : microSD

Screen : 13.3" 1080p

PSU : 19V, 2.37A

Battery : 5208U-1BRS

Price : 297 (imported from US)

Purchased : 2016-01-07 from Amazon.com

Delivered : 2016-01-16

Linux Notes

[GalliumOS][8][?][8] install

Prep

  • Developer Mode

[SeaBIOS][9][?][9]

  • Flashed Legacy bios from johnlewis.ie

Install

  • install via chrx

No wifi adapter

Missing linux-firmware.

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware

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FIXED.

Can't execute time-admin or users-admin

(time-admin:2512): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating asynchronously with the backends: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.TimeConfig: Permission denied
(time-admin:2512): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating asynchronously with the backends: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.NTPConfig: Success

(time-admin:2512): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating asynchronously with the backends: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.ServicesConfig: Success

messagebus user is assigned dynamically. In the process of debugging the wifi issue, packages were downgraded but dbus permissions weren't corrected.

/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

chrx@chrx:/$ ls -l /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root 201 302704 Mar 31  2015 /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

wrong group permissions! non-existent group 201

correct group

sudo chgrp messagebus /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

reapply SUID

sudo chmod 04754 /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

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Hardware

SSD Upgrade

[MyDigitalSSD][12][?][12] : TheSSDReview, AnandTech

Kingmax : TheSSDReview

Adata : TheSSDReview

Make Model Price Capacity Read/Write R-Seq W-Seq R-512 W-512 R-4k W-4k R-4k-q32 W-4k-q32 AVG Features Warranty Power Idle/Active
[MyDigitalSSD][12][?][12] [MDM242][17][?][17]-[SC2][18][?][18]-128 52.20 128 530/430 531 185 319 155 39 76 139 104 193.5 SMART, [ECC24][19][?][19], SPO 3y 0.5/0.9
ZTE     128 550/490                   TRIM, SMART 3y  
Adata [ASP600NS34][20][?][20]-128GM-C 59.99 128 550/320 465 144     31 94 279 144 192.83 SMART, TRIM, [ECC72][21][?][21], SLEEP 3y  
Transcend   55.49 128 550/460 491 296 222 66 12 48 222 66 177.875 SMART, TRIM, SLEEP, NCQ, ECC, SPO 3y  
Adata [ASP900NS34][22][?][22]-128GM-C ?? 128 550/530 469 266     19 79 100 231 194     4.7/0.6

Replacement

Doused in water on 29 June 2018. Laptop is working but charging circuit seems to be fried.

Purchased : Dell XPS 13 9370, i7-8550, 16GB RAM, 512GB [NVMe][23][?][23] refurb for £1186

Delivery : 2018-07-10

Options

Make Model Price CPU RAM SSD Notes
Google Pixelbook 1000?        
Dell XPS 13 9370 1198 i7-8550 8GB 256GB  
Dell XPS 13 9370 1398 i7-8550 16GB 512GB  
Razer Blade Stealth £1500 i7-8550 16GB 256GB [NVMe][23][?][23]  
Lenovo Thinkpad L380 £780 i5-8250 8GB 256GB [NVMe][23][?][23]  
Entroware Apollo 2018 870 i5-8250 16GB 250GB US kb
Tuxedo Infinity Book 864 i5-8250 16GB 250GB  
Juno Jupiter 734 i5-8250 16GB sata 128GB  
PCS Lafité 3 700 i5-8250 16GB 256GB  
KDE Slimbook 2 884 i5-7200 16GB nvme? 256GB  
             

Setup

Hostname :

Make : Dell

Model : [XPS13][26][?][26] 9370

Screen : 13.3" 1080p

CPU : i7-8550 @ 1.8GHz Kabylake

RAM : 16GB [LPDDR3][27][?][27] 2133MHz

Storage : 512GB [NVMe][23][?]23

Graphics :

System Software

https://gist.github.com/mattiaslundberg/8620837

Disk

  • 650MB EFI
  • 250MB boot
  • + root

cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain64 -y --key-size 512 -y --use-random luksFormat /dev/nvme0n1p3

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