It was a great irony to log in for the first time in over two years to see someone else posted an issue for this exact device.
Recently, I happened upon an ASUS X205T. It's an awful piece of equipment. Debian LXQt (stock ISO) is the most stable OS/DE combo out of like eight or nine other OSes I tried.
The only real issue I'm having is the battery drain during sleep states. You can close the lid/use a DE's suspend, and it'll drain the battery pretty substantially. Overnight it can drop from ~85% to ~35%. The nice tradeoff is the battery lasts like 10 hours while in use. But I've never seen a laptop with a *nix system drain this much while in a sleep state.
Suggestions are welcome.
Other honorable mentions:
While it's inactive, the green power light stays on, and it turns back on mad quick. For awhile, I wasn't even sure if it was suspending. So i tried a while sleep 2; do echo whatever; done loop to see if it kept looping while the screen was off. The loop doesn't run while the screen is blank, despite the power thing, so it seems like it's going into some sleep state.
Hibernate locks the system. Shutdown/charging is the "best" way not to lose power while inactive.
There's a great Debian article on the X205TA, but the hardware on those is a little different, it seems. Or I'm just missing something.
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$ inxi -Fxxxz
System: Host: maui Kernel: 5.8.0-0.bpo.2-686 i686 bits: 32 compiler: N/A Desktop: LXQt 0.14.1 info: tint2 wm: Openbox 3.6.1
dm: SDDM Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X205TA v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X205TA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: X205TA.212 date: 09/04/2015
Battery: ID-1: BATC charge: 6.7 Wh condition: 30.3/38.0 Wh (80%) volts: 7.2/7.6 model: Intel SR 1 SR Real Battery
type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging cycles: 271
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Atom Z3735F bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Silvermont rev: 8 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 10666
Speed: 500 MHz min/max: 500/1833 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 500 2: 500 3: 500 4: 500
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0f31
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio driver: HdmiLpeAudio message: bus/chip ids unavailable
Device-2: chtrt5645 driver: chtrt5645 message: bus/chip ids unavailable
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-0.bpo.2-686
Network: Message: No Device data found.
IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 29.12 GiB used: 12.03 GiB (41.3%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1 model: MBG4GC size: 29.12 GiB serial: <filter> rev: 0x7 scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / size: 24.20 GiB used: 11.58 GiB (47.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk1p2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.11 GiB used: 455.8 MiB (10.8%) fs: swap dev: /dev/mmcblk1p3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 6280.4 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 181 Uptime: 1d 55m Memory: 1.86 GiB used: 727.8 MiB (38.2%) Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: x-terminal-emul inxi: 3.0.32