The GPD Win
The GPD Win is a PC in a gaming handheld form factor by GPD.
Installation
Startup Hotkeys
- Access the firmware by pressing Del on a keyboard
Boot on a USB media by choosing it in the "Save & Exit"/"Boot Override" section of the firmware.
OpenSUSE installation
Get an openSUSE Leap 42.2 or openSUSE Tumbleweed DVD image and make a bootable USB drive out of it. Avoid live system images, the desktop may not work.
To compensate for the portrait screen put in landscape mode, you'll have to edit the kernel commands. In GRUB press e on the command you want to boot and at the end of the kernel line add the video=efifb and fbcon=rotate:1 parameters, this will help getting the screen in landscape mode most of the time.
Unfortunately during the installation process the screen won't be correctly rotated, it will be the same when using the display manager.
Hardware support on the GPD Win
Feature Status |
Markup |
untested |
<: #80ff80> untested |
not working |
<: #ff8080> not working |
needs work |
<: #ffcc50> needs work |
work in progress |
<: #c0ffc0> work in progress |
working |
<: #80ff80> working |
Feature |
Reference |
Notes |
EFI |
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Secure Boot |
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Graphics card |
Intel HD Graphics (Cherryview) |
Works |
Screen rotation |
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Works with fbcon=rotate:1, GDM isn't correctly rotated, see #1 |
Brightness |
|
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HDMI output |
|
Works |
Internal MMC |
|
Works |
SD card reader |
|
Works |
Volume buttons |
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Mono speaker |
Cherry Trail chtrt5645 |
Outputs only the left channel instead of a mix of all channels |
Headphones |
Cherry Trail chtrt5645 |
Mostly works with some patches, see #1 |
Microphone |
Cherry Trail chtrt5645 |
Doesn't work |
Power Off/Reboot |
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Works |
Suspend |
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Repeatedly enter and leave suspend state every few seconds, works with the brightness and volume buttons patches |
Lid switch |
|
Works |
Battery |
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Works with some patches, see #1 |
Wi-Fi |
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Works once this file is at /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac4356-pcie.txt, see #1 |
Bluetooth |
|
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Accelerometer |
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Works with some patches, see #1 |
Touchscreen |
|
Works |
Keyboard |
|
Works |
Trackpoint |
|
Works |
Generic gamepad |
|
Works |
Xbox 360 gamepad |
|
Works |
Thanks to Hans de Goede and Takashi Iwai for their work on making this device work well with Linux.
See Getting Linux to run properly on the GPDwin on Hans' blog for more information.
The GPD Pocket
The GPD Pocket is a palmtop PC by GPD with very similar hardware to the GPD Win. You can expect most of what is on this page to be true for the GPD Pocket too.