[Windows 8 General] StridAst:
ok, tips and tricks. to rotate the screen, you need to enter two commands into the terminal

first to rotate the view to the right, you type:

xrandr -output VGA1 -rotate right

on my most recent installation (ubuntu mate 14.04) this didnt work. so I needed instead to use

xrandr -o right

then hit enter of course. this WONT rotate the touchscreen. to rotate that, we need xinput.

first you can type xinput list to list what devices are present. I assume you will see FTSC1000:00 2808:5056 listed. if so, this will work, if not, you will need to adjust this command to fit what you see listed. (most important if you are adapting this guide to another bay trail tablet other then the pipo w2) the command that you want, assuming that's your touchscreen is

xinput set-prop "FTSC1000:00 2808:5056" "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1

and hit enter of course. your touchscreen should now be rotated to the right as well,

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ok, Wifi, to get wifi up and running, you will break screen rotation. Also it will break your normal boot process, requiring you to boot though advanced options for ubuntu, and recovery mode after that. The wifi is also unstable, and prone to hanging, requiring you to disconnect and reconnect at random intervals. It's not a perfect workaround, pretty far from it in fact, but it does at least prove the wifi is possible to get working. we probably need a better driver. Overall, you will get much much MUCH better performance with a usb wifi module. but that's extremely annoying to use so feel free to experiment here.

step one, go to here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.18-rc4-vivid/

and download the following files. http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-pp...eneric_3.18.0-031800rc4.201411091835_i386.deb

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-pp...1800rc4_3.18.0-031800rc4.201411091835_all.deb

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-pp...eneric_3.18.0-031800rc4.201411091835_i386.deb

now copy them to your desktop in ubuntu.

now in terminal type:

cd Desktop

then type:

sudo dpkg -i linux*.deb

once it's done, reboot your tablet. now go to grub, and select advanced options for ubuntu, then select recovery mode for the 3.18-rc4 kernel. and resume normal boot once you see the recovery menu show up

this should allow you to boot to desktop. after which go back to terminal, and type the following commands in, one line at a time of course, waiting for the next prompt before typing the next line

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic git

git clone https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723as.git

cd ~/rtl8723as

make clean

make

sudo make install

sudo depmod -a

sudo modprobe 8723bs

reboot. go through the recovery mode menu again to boot to desktop. wifi should now be working. you will need to use recovery mode to boot from this point on. since 3.18-rc4 wont boot without it. Be forwarned, suspend mode breaks wifi it seems. one time of the suspend, and you will need to reboot to get it working again. So I would suggest disabling everything applicable to your tablet screen shutting off. also, the wifi is extremely unstable. as noted above. it can quit for no reason, and need to disconnect and reconnect to use it more.

information for how to install the wifi driver was gained here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2249936&p=13151763#post13151763

information as to why the wifi won't work, even with the drivers, on 14.04 default kernels was obtained from this thread https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67921