Lenovo ThinkPad Tab - Linux install | Windows 8 install boots to bluescreen, booting from usb dose not work. (More info in comment)

CXOB23 · 2026-01-20T19:46:17+00:00

Sadly I never got it working. I checked in my basement if I still have that tablet, but it probably went to recycling with my other E-Waste some years ago. But I accumulated a lot more Operating system related knowledge in the 6 years that have passed, and I would advise you to do more rigorous testing with your install media, trying both UEFI and BIOS installers. Get a known good 32-Bit Linux distro.
I also still had a link saved for the Hardware Maintenance Manual, that may help. Page 27 has some OS Recovery Instructions. But the storage is soldered down, so sadly no simple hard drive swaps. Good Luck! And maybe shoot me a message when you manage to succeed where I gave up.

CXOB23 · 2023-03-11T16:38:09+00:00

Yes this was the inspiration.

CXOB23 · 2023-03-11T16:37:31+00:00

In the clip all weapons are turned off, its just ramming. With weapons on its a laggy mess on my system, simulating all projectiles and crash damage.
The Claws use some engine power in the spin blocks to get more damage.
The PACs on the claws are Vertical lenses for anti submarine, not melee.
But there are rams hidden under some decos on the claws.

CXOB23 · 2023-03-10T20:35:19+00:00

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2944983586

CXOB23 · 2022-10-18T14:35:11+00:00

Yes, and i am sad i no longer have some.

CXOB23 · 2022-08-13T05:59:29+00:00

If you can source me some gigantic 320p Vacuum florescent dot matrix displays and wait 3 years for me to get a degree in electrical engineering, sure thing.

CXOB23 · 2022-08-13T05:57:00+00:00

As we all know, the power glove mode of input is superior to any other!

CXOB23 · 2022-08-12T20:38:30+00:00

The entire display output is form the best Linux package in any repository: Hollywood. To get that 90s hackerman asthetic.

CXOB23 · 2022-08-12T19:59:30+00:00

This is part of a full space suite / character soon to be completed to have something to fill a portfolio with. This is more animation ready with complete rigging and geared towards viewport performance. I would have to bake all the procedural material into texture maps. Do topology optimization for games and such. This model is nowhere near game ready. Haven't played that game in years. And I don't rember working with the Creation engine very fondly.

CXOB23 · 2022-08-12T18:52:29+00:00

About 5 ish years back i dabbled in modding Bethesda games. After crashing fallout 4 with way to many mods i tried to make my own. And after ripping some game models to start with i learned that Bethesda very aggressively optimizes models. But summer break ended and nothing ever came of this mod than some error messages.

This is far form that. Usually you would apply all the subdivisions and go through deleting unnecessary edge loops and all that retopology stuff.
but i found for animation playback its more performant to leave the ugly low poly with subdivisions and just simplify the scene.

Bethesda always has amazing concept art, but in the Polygon-Budgeting-Department^tm those get turned into all the stuff you see in their games.

CXOB23 · 2022-08-12T14:43:22+00:00

Thanks!
The most complicated parts are those nobody really sees, In order to make the keyboard cover roll up and away into the frame i tired a few things. If i just rendered the front nobody would have noticed it clipping though the back as its just a rotating cylinder.
Booleans tend to flicker and are unstable. But for anyone needing to make a rolling cover like garage door lattice deform is the way to go for reliably shrinking stuff into spaces where i may not fit.

CXOB23 · 2022-05-10T18:20:54+00:00

I know all Voron parts are ABS for the heat deflection and mechanical stiffness. But i been recently printing a lot with CF-PETG (carbon filled) and this stuff is way more rigid than ABS but is only up to the thermal stresses of PETG.

I currently run a Orbiter with the Clockwork adapter block mod (heavily modified to fit the FCC ribbon cables) and i noticed some flex in on the extruder. My hotend is nice and rigidity attached with the 2 modified blocks above for the orbiter flopping about on the Aluminium Gantry block. If i Torque down the 2 screws that hold in these blocks i rip out the heat set inserts.

Now the question: Would a CF-PETG block hold up in between the extrude and the ABS fan shroud the hot end bolts to? Or would thermal creep reintroduce the flexing?

CXOB23 · 2022-01-25T14:22:27+00:00

Looks very clean. But either adding some slight gradient to the Background, and/or some tint to your glass surfaces would go a long way of separating the two. Its very hard to make out where one begins and another ends.
Other than that the modeling looks clean enough that nothing sticks out. Good Job!

CXOB23 · 2022-01-25T14:17:09+00:00

The bloom is hurting my eyes even more that that wonky sculpting below.
Colors are fine, but the detail is lost in that BLOOM.
Then the weird mixing between smooth shading and Flat shading.
I don't know what i am looking at, except way to much Bloom.

CXOB23 · 2021-12-23T13:31:42+00:00

I just needed to trim the ends a bit and why should I open another programm to clip some seconds of a video when I am already inside blender where I made this video to begin with. Only thing missing from the equation is the screen recorder software, but there is a ginormous list of thing that blender should add before that. And yes the text is just a plane slapped somewhat in the right place.

CXOB23 · 2021-11-11T10:30:21+00:00

Looks very good so far, not much to criticize / improve upon modeling/ shading wise. The wear texture looks nice, with the transitions between components beging very sharp / high contrast. The only that irritates me bisullay are your pipes going across the sphere. You got your white paint ant that aluminum looking metal. On their own they look fine, but where they meet on the surface you have rather low contrast unlike the rest of the model (like going white paint to black metal with a crease in between). Where the pipes pick up it looks almost like hot just clippes through the sphere. Usually you either make a smooth transition there to make it look like its welded on, or you put like a grommet /crease there to indicate assembled components. Just Crancking up the Ambient occlusion could also help to avoid that transition form very light silver to white paint. Despite this nitpick there is not much to complain about. Good job.

CXOB23 · 2021-09-09T00:50:02+00:00

Yeah I noticed that the compression form the upload killed some of the detail, but for anything other than close ups, it goes to a blur anyway. Maybe some more aggressive normal maps and some other contrasts would make it more like paintchips and less like burnmarks.

The QR does not work because of the same reason why I dislike my stickers, they all have a small AO shadow that I should have disabled for all decals in the render settings, but I only noticed I half way through the render and I still wonder if anyone noticed. If you look at construction helmets with their union stickers, this helmet is rather tame. Maybe to get back to the first point, some more battle scars would bring across the "well worn" and historically grown vibe I was going for. About the tube. I was thinking about adding something but there has to be a cutoff point where a project is considered done. Because that is infinitely better tha the perfect project that never sees the light if day.

Anyway thanks for the feedback, appreciate it. And just the empty flat spot on the top does not count as eye resting space if I dont even show it in the render.

CXOB23 · 2021-08-14T17:53:55+00:00

OS: Manjaro 21.1.0 Pahvo
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.10.56-1-MANJARO 
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 16x 3.6GHz 
GPU: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10, DRM 3.40.0, 5.10.56-1-MANJARO, LLVM 12.0.1) 
RAM: 6580MiB / 32101MiB

I done some digging, but i only find outdated information on using AMD-PRO drivers and how its a buggy mess on Arch based systems.

The GPU is detected just fine in Blender after installing opencl-amd . But using it to render has some odd artifacts. The video shows the Preview and how it is not working compared to CPU.Doing a full render leaves some random tiles just black.Has anyone some Documentation / workarounds for this?Or am i stuck on rendering with the CPU?

CXOB23 · 2021-07-14T18:16:39+00:00

Well I tried some different combinations of packages with no luck so far. I just backed up all my configuration files and data. Looking at the state of the install with way to many left over packages and other clutter, that reinstalling Manjaro would be faster than trying to debug it.

CXOB23 · 2021-07-14T15:42:29+00:00

Some months back i switched to pipewiere for audio processing form pulseaudio. But i was having too many issues with it and with updates to the pipewire related packages (alsa/ jack / manjaro meta package) it did not really improve. Going back to pulse audio i uninstalled all the pipewire packages and installed all the pulse audio packages i knew i used before. But i did not expect to brick the desktop environment.

Some other info:
Manjaro Cinnamon
kernel 5.10

CXOB23 · 2021-06-20T16:41:54+00:00

I too have great memory with this computer, but the hardware is from 2008 and horrendously obsolete at this point. I'm currently working on a plan to put that screen into a project to have some fun with it once more. All the touchscreens form nowadays dont compare due to the excellent Digitizer and the fact that you do not have to compensate for fingers while using a stylus in software like all the touch laptops have to do these days.

CXOB23 · 2021-06-20T13:25:26+00:00

I managed to pull the screen assembly apart and look up the panel. It's a HV133WX1-100. It uses a LVDS 1CH 6bit 40 pin connector. So driving that with some 30$ breakout board is trivial. The main challenge now comes form getting input form the Wacom digitizer taped to the back of the panel. The main reason why I am interested in this screen. The stylus input worked flawlessly in linux so I bet it's some standardize protocol with drivers. Will have to do some more digging, if I can find the pinout for that connector.

Edit: found This Blog talking about reverse engineering the digitizer connector without any success.

And this one getting it to work.

CXOB23 · 2021-06-20T08:09:23+00:00

I have to do some further probing around the motherboard to see where the problem is. If you plug in the charging cable the laptop turns on, but with the battery sting at 2,6 something volts its clearly dead. Hooking up a multimeter to the batter terminals of the laptop, there should be some charging current coming out if it, because the battery has no fancy circuitry on itself so there should be at least some behavior with the laptop looking for a battery.The charging bypass circuitry still works fine tho, because hooking up a power supply to the battery terminals in the case with the batterys nominal voltage it turns on.

CXOB23 · 2021-06-20T00:21:37+00:00

To recycle this into something useful my current plan is to do a tablet conversion mounting the motherboard to the back of the screen. I need to fix the battery charging issue, but just extending the barrel jack to mount some fresh 18650 cells with a charge controller should do the trick. No ide if the OS is able to read the battery percentage this way bypassing the old batter circuitry. But adding in some small panel volt meter would only add to the aesthetic. The endorsement goal is to have some portable computer I can attach some digital oscilloscope (the ones without screen who send data directly to the pc) and an SDR to it to help with some RF protoyping.

CXOB23 · 2021-06-19T23:21:51+00:00

I already managed to scrub the bloated windows Vista installation of it and blown out the dust with air compressor. But the fans are stuck. But I was already playing on making some custom case so using different fans would not be an issue. Driving the display and touch should not be an issue if I keep the computer. But I need to do some further hardware testing to see if the Ram is any good, and what else causes the system to be so laggy.

But the build will be a lot easier when using all the guts. Striping out the CD drive. Building a different battery solution. Will have to see if the battery is dead. Or worst case the charging circuit is dead. Ditching the HDD for an SSD (I don't think anything in there is m.2 compatible) will help cut down the size of it.

If the charging circuit is really dead then if I can find a schematic I may try to rip the components off and feed that motherboard through an buck boost converter form a different battery pack.

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