Android-x86 on Dell Venue 8 Pro

[Sega dude]

I would like to run Android-x86 on the Dell Venue 8 Pro. It has an Intel Atom Z3740D (Bay Trail), 2GB of RAM and "Dell Wireless 1538" wireless. The wireless is made by Qualcomm Atheros, which will probably be a problem as I've never had Atheros wireless work in Android-x86. I have tried to get android-x86-4.2-20130228 to boot unsuccessfully. After creating a bootable Ubuntu flash drive with rufus and "rolling in" Android-x86 with the method in the description of this video, it just hangs after pressing enter on Android in the Android submenu. 

[Greg McGee]

I was very highly tempted to do the same with all the holiday sales...

Atheros wireless is usually reasonably well supported under Linux proper, but if a new chipset may take awhile.

Check and see if the chip is supported in the mainline kernel, it may be simply a matter of telling the build to build it as a module and perhaps dig up the firmware.

If it's in mainline, the FW will be as well.

[sarma...@yahoo.com]

I just spent a week of very late nights trying to get android-x86 working on an Asus T100 which has the same Bay Trail processor as the Venue 8 Pro.  I've concluded that the intel graphics drivers in android-x86 need to be updated before the graphics will work reliably.  I've seen posts here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500078 Where people have been able to run Ubuntu on it but they were using the very latest linux kernel versions. 

However, i did just talk to a friend that works on android at intel and supposedly they will be releasing a public beta of android for bay trail "in about 3 weeks".  I'm planning to wait until then to do any further work on running android on the T100 as i don't have time to try and merge drivers from the kernel into android-x86.

[Josh Wiles]

I've managed to get Androidx86 booting on the Venue 8 Pro but it's completely unusable. Like said above, the graphics are all messed up. It appears to be doubled, like two identical images side by side and miscolored. Plus, nothing works so you have to plug in a mouse and keyboard. I look forward to having a full running android Rom though.