Getting a fully functional Linux setup on the Lenovo IdeaPad 330 is not a straightforward task. This repository serves to act a central source of all the information I trawled from the interwebz over the past couple days to save everybody else the trouble I went through.
This is the list of issues that you can expect to face trying to install Linux on the IdeaPad 330 without following the steps in this repository.
- Touchpad refuses to work
- No hardware acceleration (GPU fails to load)
- No WiFi
Pretty major issues, so read on.
Things are in much better shape today and you should not need to do a lot to get things functional. Touchpad will work out of the box on Linux 5.x.y kernels, and distro packages of linux-firmware are now sufficiently up-to-date to support the GPU. The only remaining pain is the WiFi driver, which continues to require an out-of-tree module that you can install by following the steps here.