Thread: Archlinux running natively on HP TouchPad (no chroot anymore!))
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gregoranderson is offline gregoranderson
2011-12-06 , 12:25
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#5
Originally Posted by slaapliedje View Post
I would love a full on tablet with Linux. I do have a Chinese tablet that I intend on putting Debian or Arch on as soon as it's usable, since Android stinks. The main reason I bought the thing was to be able to display PDFs through the HDMI out... and Android only lets you output video through it! I mean what the hell is even the point in that?
Depends on the model I suppose. I bought a pair of cheap Storage Options Scroll tablet for the kids (Haemoroid 2.2 - sixty quid) to use when we drove to France (videos, Angry Birds, finger painting etc) and they had miniHDMI, with 1080p output for both video playback and applications. Was surprised at the latter - it was a sub-option ; suspect a hardware driver thing, it it certainly implies that Android supports it if the hardware supports it.