New special builds out today with built in Broadcom Support!!!
Download 64 bit build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Camd64OS_R44-7015.0-Special.7z
Download 32 bit build from http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/special/Cx86OS_R44-7015.0-Special.7z
Notable changes:
- 64 & 32 bit builds
- 3.19.3 kernel
- R44 codebase – new material design
- Working Touchpad (should include ElanTouch but not tested)
- Working Webcam/Audio (Linux UVC)
- Working Hangouts
- Working Broadcom wireless – should work with all cards noted here.
- Working Intel wireless (iwlwifi)
- Working Bluetooth
- SD Card Support
- Radeon/Intel Graphics Support
- NVIDIA support (untested)
- Suspend/resume works.
Tested with Dell Studio 1555, Studio 1535 Laptops and Thinkpad S230U
Radeon Graphics testing covers: HD 3450/3470/4350/4370/545v)
Intel Graphics testing covers up to Gen 3 cards only.
Known Issues
- Intel Gen 4+ cards wont work yet
- Touchscreen does seem to work very nicely (Thinkpad) but currently disables the touchpad!
Certain Atheros and Realtek wireless are also built into the kernel. These are not tested so feel free to feed back on how your testing goes.
Both of these builds will provide the base for additional WiFi support. These subsequent builds will also be available via Dev Server update when completed.
Happy Testing!
Wow, that is great
Thanks for all this great work.
I am still having trouble getting the USB to work but will keep trying especially with this new build.
Cheers
If your having trouble, try using Win32ImageWriter, it works like a charm for me.
SUPER excited about this image. It booted up on the HP Stream 13 (and 11) but is missing the RTL8723be.bin firmware file. It warns you during bootup that the file is missing the RTLWIFI directory and then crashes and restarts. I’d love to add it myself, but I can’t get into the machine as it doesn’t finish booting. PLEASE add this file and the HP Stream notebooks will work! I’ve been waiting for this for 2 months…SUPER excited if we could get this work.
I’ve added the driver to the outstanding list. Once I’ve got 32 bit working, I’ll start to build in the additional wireless drivers..
Files can be downloaded at https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new. Will work on this Kernel version and includes the RTLWIFI/RTL8723be.bin file. So close on these notebooks man.
Ill try to get those added on the next special build
thank you so much
Can I update my daily builds into this latest special build, If I update it by make this build boot in usb and then install ? I want only to have special builds on my dell laptop. Help :'(
No. Special builds cannot be updated from daily. Ill be releasing a dev server for the specials soon however.
I have install the R45-7216.0 Special Image. I am trying to Enroll the Chrome Book and am unable to do it. Will this be fixed in the next update?
Hi there,
Great work ! I have a acer aspire one (D270) which has a intel atom vga controler D2xxx/N2xxx.
After booting the splash screen is shown and then a blank screen.
Which driver should I use ? I got you chrome-os distro working with an older version. But I want to use this one because it supports more and even the broadcom wlan driver.
Hope to hear from you
Jacco
Looks like I missed out the VGA driver! Doh. Ill get it for the next build…
How do I know there is a new build ???
Keep your eyes on his (ATB) main page. It’s a blog so the latest post is his latest news. I believe he’s also going to be building a new update server for this special build (which is a lot of work).
Just going to add my “this is awesome” comment. A lot of hard work, I’m sure! Going to try this on my netbooks ASAP.
Thanks so much, I am able to boot sweet as on my Dell Venue 11 Pro, but it seems that my 7260-AC NGFF wifi card is not detected. Bluetooth is though, and is in same card so not sure what is going on?
It’s different from the normal 7260-AC card
Maybe Intel didn’t include Linux drivers for it?
Added to the list. Ill see if I can get it in the next build… Have a look here https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi and try copying the file into your /lib/firmware folder
Try the following at shell:
sudo su
mount -o remount, rw /
wget https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-7260-ucode-25.17.12.0.tgz
tar xvf iwlwifi-7260-ucode-25.17.12.0.tgz -C /lib/firmware
Then reboot
Awesome job guys! I knew you would do it eventually! I just want to know one thing, if you turn the Chromium OS build into Chrome OS, will it keep the Broadcom support? Also will this fix of Broadcom ever come to the point where it becomes daily builds? (Not that i’m not grateful for this build that isn’t 2 years old, just wondering.)
Also, one more question, if I wanted to build my own version of Chromium (Just for education purposes NOT to replace u guys because u rock!) how would I do it? Could u make a youtube tutorial or something since u do it like everyday? Thanks. 🙂
Start https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os and read lots!!
These builds will never be daily, since they need much more tweaking to get running. I intend on releasing new driver support at least monthly so the OS will still be latest version.
No idea on the Chrome OS from Chromium. You should test it and let the community know!
Do you mind sharing the tutorial you’re following to convert Chromium into ChromeOS? I’d like to see the results for myself as well.
I’m trying this on an older computer and I can get to a console screen but not a graphical screen. Based on some research I suspect the problem is the video drivers. The laptop has an ATI Mobile Radeon Xpress 200 (RS480M), which appears to be supported by Chromium OS, but I’m wondering there’s something I need to do to get it to work properly.
The key reason for my suspicion is this message in Xorg.0.log:
xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied)
Indeed as the chronos user I cannot cat /dev/mem but as root (sudo) I can.
Any ideas? Thanks,
Ill take a look for the next build. Added to the list!
Many thanks!
My problem is that the wifi generally says “Out of Range”.
So the only change to get connection is by cable.
It seems to be not a router problem, it’s not working on 3 different access points, at work and at home.
Is there anything I can try to fix that?
Many thanks in advance!
Are the access points broadcom based? Ive seen this once on the 32 bit build but cured it by connecting to my phone to allow me to log in, then setting up the broadcom after rebooting with a valid account. Sounds crazy but it worked (Ill bet not for long though!)
Good morning, thanks for your reply!
I testet it with several access points, Netgear, SMC, Cisco.
Always the same.
But I also do not know if the old netbook for testing is maybe the issue?
I need it for a 4 week vacation which will start in a few days and switched now to Windows for this time to be on the safe side , but I will boot from USB and will try your tip.
I’ll have to give this a shot. I’m trying the 32 bit build on a netbook (which a previous build could get on the WiFi no problem) and getting the same error. What’s funny is that it sees my network and my neighbors and lists them… But just won’t connect. Hrm.
Okay, older builds don’t even show the WiFi networks at all. I’ll just have to suck it up until later. Keep it up, man. You’re doing awesome work.
Hi thx for the new build.
Not working for me yet.
I removed i915.modeset=1 because I do not use intel.
Can you add “linux-non-free” package?
My AMD APU needs radeon/MULLINS:::.bin files and your image does not provide them.
Hmmm, I thought I had those in kernel. Ill take a look for the next build
the package is also called ” firmware-linux-nonfree”
Broadcom seems to work for the Dell D630. Thank you for your hard work. We are trying to set this up for our school district to add some more life to this outdated computer. Is there any way to propagate the settings from one computer to another. I use dd to clone to another computer, however the Guest account is turned on again, and domain restrictions are removed. Do you know of a work around for this, or why this isn’t propagating using dd? Again, thank you.
Hi
Other than cloning the drives, Im not sure there is much more you can do. You should be able to use the USB stick to install to all the laptops however rather than dd every time. Both cloning and new accounts will start the install from scratch again however..
Very excited to test the build out! Going to try it on a Latitude XT2 today if I have time, and perhaps some Dell Minis with broadcom wireless cards.
Keep up the great work!
Update:
The Dell Latitude XT2 is working like a dream. Absolutely no problems with any basic activity, performance or installation. A huge improvement from the last build, recognizably.
I booted on a Dell Latitude 2120 (Netbook) as well. This device contains Broadcom Wlan (I believe) and I have some reference for it in previous builds.
The OS immediately recognizes that there is, in-fact, a WLAN card present, and identifies it’s MAC Address. There is a scan error occurring repeatedly that prevents the WLAN from being usable, however. All I can grab is “ERROR @wl_cfg80211_scan : WLC SCAN error (-22)” from the console thingamabob. Not sure what to do or what it means, but I’m sure you’ll have more insight about that. I also noticed that there is no ethernet driver installing, which had been working on the last build I used. Not a major concern if wireless can be remedied!
All the best,
OK, Ill see what I can sort for the next build for the 2120. Sounds like the XT2 should be my reference machine!
Also using a 2120, and getting spammed with WLC_SCAN error in the terminal. Turning on the wireless with the key combination (Fn+F6) seemed to stop the deluge.
On my Dell inspiron 14 3451, I get the splash screen, then just the text mode display. I’m able to get into the developer shell, so the OS is running, but no display. The display works fine under the normal daily builds. Was really hoping that this special build would help with my touchpad issues.
Hmm, Strange. Looks like I messed things up. Ill see if I can fix for the next build.
Thank you sir!
I’ve updated chronos and root passwords, but how can I disable crosh shell access?
tired usermod -s /bin/false chronos
Hey. It’s me again. The Broadmoor support isn’t working for my Dell Latitude E4300. 1. NO networks connect. 2. When I try others, its says Out of Range. Please fix that or send me a link to install the required drivers. Thanks man.
Broadcom Sorry.
I’m on a Dell Latitude E6520, tried booting both 64-bit and 32-bit special builds in UEFI mode. My results:
a) for both builds, when booting local image A, I see the first 2 lines of my screenshot here, then I see the Chromium startup splash screen, then back to the terminal with all 4 lines in the screenshot visible. At that point (~55 seconds into bootup), my wireless light indicator is on, so WiFi must be working (I’m sure it’ll work once the failed bootup is resolved). I am able to press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get into a shell, and I am able to login with username ‘root’. (apologies for the blurry screenshot)
b) for both builds, when I boot local image B, I get this terminal screen, and my Caps Lock light blinks on and off repeatedly. (kernel panic?) Haven’t tried the Ctrl-Alt-F2 shortcut, and I doubt it works.
I don’t know if I should try booting in legacy mode, but I doubt it would resolve any of the issues. What do you think?
Update from my previous comment – when I boot x32 (haven’t tried x64, might work) in legacy mode, the system appears to work out of the box. The Broadcom driver works as expected. Great job! 😀
What is legacy mode? And how do you enable it?
In Windows (not sure about the UEFI vs. BIOS debate in Linux), the MBR partition scheme is used in legacy/BIOS mode, but GPT is used in (U)EFI mode. Legacy mode is simply the use of the BIOS mode instead of UEFI. You should be able to change UEFI to legacy and vice versa in your BIOS settings/setup program. However, on my Latitude E6520, I’m able to choose to boot my ChromiumOS USB in legacy mode or UEFI mode via my system’s boot options screen (this is before any OS is started) without having to change that setting in the BIOS setup.
You are brilliant! This fixed my booting issue on my Inspiron and now my touchpad works out of the box. I am a happy camper right now!
Happy to help! 😀
I am experiencing the same issue but it your fix doesn’t work.
This has fixed my audio issue on the Toshiba M10’s and it works pretty much perfectly on the Dell Latitude 2120’s that we have here.
Can’t wait to try this on some other machines just to see if it boots! Wish I knew enough about boot flags and stuff that some other people are talking about in order to tweak.
BTW – I’ve tried two different scripts for flash and they both seemed to work just fine.
One is this:
curl -L http://tkinson.net/cb/flash | bashand the other is sixsixfive’s found here:https://github.com/sixsixfive/misc/tree/master/CrOSThat second one is more involved and allows you to do some other neat things.
Yuck, I forgot to put linebreaks…
First script:
curl -L http://tkinson.net/cb/flash | bashSixsixfive’s:
https://github.com/sixsixfive/misc/tree/master/CrOSAfter several attempts to boot from USB I finally got to the chromium splash screen but it just sits there until the screen goes off. My system has broadcom wireless with amd a6-1425 temash chip set….not sure if it’s me or my system or just incompatibility? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Seeing a couple of reports of this. Can you export /var/log/* and send me a private link?
How do I do that? Oh and I have tested one of your weekly builds and it boots up and works fine except no wifi.
Hi! I try to give my ThinkPad X31 a second life with the 32 bits version. But i’m stuck after the USB boot. I got
VFS : Can’t find ext4 filessystem
self_repair
then a cound down and ti reboot and start all over again.
And tip’s ?
Thank’s 🙂
Really like this release – very solid. I know there are things to add/fix but what a great release!
I’ve come across a scenario on one machine where I get to the login screen, can enter username and password but then it sits with the spinner and “please wait”. Clicking on Guest Login does nothing. I’ve confirmed I have Internet connection via terminal.
Is this a graphics issue? I thought not because I get all the animations and login screen like normal.
Anyway – for anyone wanting to hide the version number on the login screen, that file is /etc/lsb-release
You don’t need to destroy the file. If you add the line
CHROMEOS_RELEASE_DESCRIPTION=at the bottom of the file it clears the string on the login screen.I’ve recreated my flash fix script – it will detect 32-bit vs 64-bit and install the proper one as well as MP3 and MP4 codecs:
curl -L www.brash.ca/flash.sh | bashAnd if you don’t want to edit the lsb-release file mentioned above, here’s a quick script to do that for you:
curl -L www.brash.ca/hidebuild.sh | bashFinally, my touchpad settings for the Toshiba M10 (works on many models and other devices) is here:
www.brash.ca/40-touchpad-cmt.confWhile this release has amazing touchpad recognition and settings, that file will add tap-to-click, natural scrolling and 1-finger vertical scroll area at the very right-edge of the pad.
Cheers.
Ive seen a couple of reports of the graphics freezing up but cannot reproduce here. Could you export your /var/logs/ directory and send me a private link?
This is going to sound stupid – how should I get the link to you in a private manner? Is there a way to do that through the comments of this post?
Hi. It was just to send a link to me from an exported zip of your log files which you can pop them on your gdrive for example and share to only me (since they may have sensitive data in them)
What’s your email addy for me to share to?
@MrPlow, The script gets a 404 on the x86.tar file in your script for flash. Do you have this working for 64 and 32 bit?
David should be fixed now. Forgot to update the tar file.
Hi, I have attempted to boot this particular build multiple times with no luck. I have tried downloading the 64bit version 3 different time and different usb thumb drives, different ports, and different write programs….As far as I have gotten is to the splash screen or a command line environment. I had the idea to also try a regular weekly build (The May 10, 2015 one tbe) and it boots just fine but with no wireless support. I am currently using that build with my Nexus 5 tethered up via USB. Why does it refuse to boot the Special Build? Oh and I have an HP 215 G1 with AMD A6-1450 Temash with Radeon HD 8250. Any help is greatly appreciated thanks.
having the same issue! thinkpad x140e amd a4-5000
how to enable your GoogleAPIs to get GDrive working ? Help ? I see in his github >> https://github.com/sixsixfive/misc/tree/master/CrOS
And I want to know if theres ALPS touchpad get work on tap to click ? cause mine dont work help
What have you tried so far to get the tap-to-click to work? Have you played around with touchpad settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-touchpad.conf ?
If you want, use this as a starting point: http://www.brash.ca/40-touchpad-cmt.conf
It might disable some functionality of your specific touchpad, but take a look at some of those settings. If none of them work, you might start by reading this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_enable_touchpad_click
Plenty of reading when it comes to the X11 config files…
Is the problem of some Broadcom devices working but not connecting to any network because they are outdated or not supported by a legacy script?
The Broadcom install is based on the broadcom-sta plus gentoo patches. No additional hacks deployed so far but I’ll be looking to reproduce this week so I can see what’s occurring
Oh, the hacks with the last Broadcom support worked though, is there any way to import that into this build? (I tried but failed the step by step guide)
Hi
Thats a differing kernel revision so wont work at all
So just stick to the old, outdated chromium version until you figure out why some Broadcom Drivers don’t work?
Good news for us..
Lenovo G555 specs;
Bluetooth – Working..
Wifi – Working..
Touchpad – Not fully working..
Camera – Didnt test it
For now, i love it ! but i cant dual boot with windows so this mean Chromium Os only usb pen driver for me..
Thanks for your great work on this project, Arnold. But… when can we expect support for Ralink wireless cards, the rt5390 specificaly? I found a driver online for this card that says its good for Linux. I have to say that Linux is chinese to me and I don’t know the first thing about adding a driver support to this distribution. Any progress is greatly welcome and would really help me decide if I should buy a Chromebook. Thanks!
Hopefully within the next 2 weeks…
booted this from a usb on my asus k52jc. still had to use a fix to get the touchpad working but when i go to install through the console. I enter crosh and type install but it comes up Error: can not determine destination device. specify –dst yourself. what can i do to get this build installed on here?
There are lots of examples on this blog, but its install –dst=/dev/sdX where X is the drive you need to install to. This will destroy all data on that drive so you have been warned!
Should i enter that command when it prompts for the destination or when i try to install? sorry i’m not very experienced with anything chromium
Also how can i tell what the drive is called?
Watch this tutorial video. You can skip the part about the flash script if you want but it does the full steps. You can fast forward to the install part if you prefer.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lg7oFNdD1us
All in a single command will do it.
It will normally be /dev/sda but I cannot guarantee that!
I’ve been using specia build 42 on 10 Toshiba Satellite pros L450-179. They have a realtek wifi network card. Ran fine on build 42 (standby bug and crashed if you logged into it but ran fine when you logged in as a guest).
On this build the wifi never connects. It says the network is out of reach but the same laptops running 42 connect fine.
Is it a driver issue?
Loving the builds and thank you for the time and effort you put in.
More than likely the fact I didn’t port over all the realtek drivers in this build since I wanted to keep it automated where I can. The next build should have far more support for wireless drivers.
Nice one, Thanks.
Is there a command I can run to inject the driver manually for now?
mount -o remount, rw /
cd /lib/firmware/rtlwifi
wget http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
Have a look http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/rtlwifi/ for the driver you need and replace the above link to suit.Then reboot…
final question… Which driver did you use in the last build (42)?
Cheers
The last build had all the RTL wifi drivers embedded. I had to do that manually so wasn’t really practical to continue. The next special build (or 2) will have these built in by default.
The new build is great, it works on all our Dell Latitude 2100/2120 mini netbooks, it also works on our Gateway notebooks. I just can’t seem to get it to work on our Dell Latitude D series 520 or 530. Both have the Dell branded 1490 dual band wifi card.
I’m not sure why, I’ve tried to enable using the Fn keys, but no luck yet….. Any suggestions?
Thanks for your great work, we are now able to re-purpose older laptops into Chromium OS machines.
Yes, I also have been unable to get this image to work on a Latitude D520. I also have some D520s and D530s that I would like to repurpose for educational use. When I run “lspci -n | grep 14e4” from the console, the report shows 0x4311 as on your list but I’m not getting any response from the wifi card.
Really not sure if this is relevant, but for the Dell Latitude D520 (and I think the D530) when I installed the wireless on Ubuntu I had to use the b43-fwcutter package. The default Broadcom drivers did not work.
Hmmm, strange. I think Ive got a D530 that I can borrow so Ill go and see what I can find out
Test results for:
HP Mini 110-1030NR
ChromiumOS Special Build r44-7015 (32bit)
Compared to previous special builds:
– WiFi (Broadcom) works automatically. I didn’t have to do any tweaks to get it to work.
– Touchpad (Synaptics) works automatically. Though there are some limitations. Chromium Settings shows “no mouse or touchpad was detected”
– Webcam works.
– Sleep/Resume appears to work.
– I have not installed Adobe Flash yet.
I plan to look into the Touchpad more. As I’d like for ‘tap to select’ to work, and possibly two finger scrolling.
At this point, I believe that its stable enough to use as a daily device and actually install into onto my hard drive, instead of using a flash drive. I’m hoping that installing on my hard disk will boost its boot time, cause at this time I can boot WinXP and launch Chrome faster than ChromiumOS boots.
Yes, Ive just seen the lack of detection. Ill try to fix that for the next build..
Thanks ATB! We’re so happy at Responsabilizarte NGO!!!
We’ve just managed to revive our old toshiba nb205 with this build. The touchpad is working like a charm!
You are great!
Thank you so much!
Facundo
Glad its working for you!!
Is there a way to install this build on hdd? Will it run slower if so? Thanks ATB!
Cheers
Facundo
Installing to the harddrive is very easy but it will wipe the main hard drive clean and reformat it completely.
You might want to watch this tutorial video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lg7oFNdD1us
The install part is at 6:22
Thanks MrPlow.
Everythings up and running now. Great!
Any way to tweak chromium os so you can see your google drive files in the files app?
Thanks
Facundo
Hey Arnold. This build, I think, is your best by far. What would be really awesome is if you put this into your daily branch. For me, I have working trackpad, wireless, USB, sleep, graphics, sound. Everything! Thanks man!
Hi
This wont get put into the daily build (since that is a differing kernel) but all subsequent special releases will be upgradable via the dev servers so you don’t need to reinstall from scratch
I try to install the above chromium edition on my dell inspiron 10” where I already installed the chromium edition of hexxeh but wifi was disabled. After crosh command, I give the command install and password and it says : can not determine destination device. Specify –dst yourself. Help what to do?
That problem has been answered many times through the comments. Assuming you are installing it onto your “first” main hard-drive:
chromeos-install --dst=/dev/sdaNote there are two “-” before the “dst”
After I followed your advice it says invalid device name.
Ok that means that your main hard drive isn’t called “sda” or there was a typo somewhere.
Lookup how to list what drives are connected in Linux. They will all be in the /dev directory but I forget (off the top of my head) how to list which symbolic links are actually working.
Sorry – but my advice above is the correct command, you’ll just have to find which device is the main harddrive (I’ve never seen it anything other than sda but you could try sdb or sdc if you’re brave).
The problem is that I already installed Chromium twice on my laptop. First time an old one of arnoldthebat and second time a hexxeh one. Now I have on my local disk the hexxeh one. Is it possible to erase the hexxeh one and then install that final version of arnold? I’m sorry but I have no knowledge on Linux.
Oops – it’s a space, not an equal sign.
--dst /dev/sdaI have a bad memory. 🙂
Problem Realtek Wifi Card
There is a lack of “rtlwifi” folder.
Create this folder and copy it to “firmware”.
Then copy your file rtl …… .bin in the folder “rtlwifi”.
Now a problem is resolved.
I know I’m being an idiot but after searching a trying for weeks I can’t do it. Could someone post a step by step guide to making the folder and adding a driver.
The “Sign in to your Chromebook” screen doesn’t seem proxy friendly. It just displays a white box. Is there a way to make it display properly?
I’ve successfully installed the 32 Bit R44-7015 special build on a Samsung Netbook NF310. Broadcom device works fine.
The only issue, sleep / resume does not work correctly. The device goes to sleep fine, but on resume there is some kind of loop which puts it back to sleep again.
As soon as I open the lid of the netbook, a few lines of command line status information appear, afterwards the desktop appears for a few seconds. But than the machine seems to go back to sleep directly, just to wake-up again and start again with the command line status information and so on…
Any idea what I can check / change / try to make it work?
I have it working perfectly on one P4 desktop and I can get it to boot to the login on a second P4 desktop. On the second one, it does not recognize the built-in ethernet. I’ve tried 3 separate ethernet cards I had lying around but none of them are recognized.
Question – is there a wireless or ethernet card/dongle that anyone can suggest I use? One that we know will work with this build? I don’t mind spending a few dollars to get this machine working.
I work in the public education realm and have been working on my own Chromium builds to hopefully use on older desktops in our school sometime soon. One big problem I have run into and I tried Arnold’s latest version today as well to see if it did the same thing, is that I can’t enroll the devices made from my builds or Arnold’s into my Enterprise for management. This is important for us to be able to lock down certain things we don’t want the kids to access. I have device licenses available, so that’s not the issue,…any time I try to enroll into the Enterprise, I get an Network Error. However the network is working just fine. Anyone ever run into this and have any idea how to fix?
I give the command install and password and it says : can not determine destination device. Specify –dst yourself.
I give the command:
install –dst=/dev/sda
It says invalid device name.
Help what to do?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lg7oFNdD1us
This got through for me on my completely different device as his, skip to 6:22 for installation process he goes through the steps easily, clearly, and shows the commands exactly as needed on the screen.
maybe
install –dst /dev/sda
“install –dst (space) /dev/sda ;-)”
maybe
install –dst /dev/sda
“install –dst (space) /dev/sda ;-)”
Correct – it’s a space. My mistake (was going off memory)
This works great on my hp mini 110 I got some 6 or 7 years ago, the only issue I’m having is when I go to crosh to install, I can’t type in the password. The keyboard isn’t disabled, the caps lock key still turns on the caps lock light, and the tab takes me to the address bar, but when I click after where it asks for a password to type in the password, nothing appears
Nevermind, I didn’t realize that even though nothing appears, it is still entering the password
Works great with my Dell Inspiron, but WiFi isn’t working still with my Acer Aspire AOD250 netbook. Is there anything I can do to help with WiFi support for the Acer?
Anyone else struggling with nouveau?
For me X does not work.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log shows the following error:
(EE) [drm] KMS not enabled
which makes nouveau driver unavailable.
looks like KMS is not compiled in the kernel, is this the case?
note that I am actually using nouveau on arch linux successfully, so my chipset is perfectly supported.
Probably an oversight from my build. Ill take a look for the next special build..
thanks man!
Did you look at how the kernel is compiled? Is it compiled with the CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE enabled?
Yes it is.
Ok, thanks. What about CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO ? Trying to figure out why I get the same error with an NV50 family card.
Thats switched off currently…
Works on a Dell Optiplex 745 (Intel Celeron – 1G Ram – 80G HDD). To install on HD I had to specify –dst like that:
/usr/sbin/chromeos-install –dst /dev/sda
The only issue I have is that sometime I have a black screen appearing (during 1 second), and then everything go to normal … For example on the new material design login, after entering my email, after entering my password, or when I want to display the parameter screen.
Next step for me is to add mp3/mp4/Flash support ….
Thx a lot Arnold for all your hard work !
Nicolas.
PS: I will be able to recycle for my small town public school this old Windows XP PC in new Chromium OS PC !
On dell Optiplex 745, on first open of window screen blink to black and back.. Only at first load of window.
Hi tuzko, same for me with a Dell optiplex 745, 1 GRam, Celeron 430. When a new windows is open: parameter,s new chrome, File …. sometime I have a black screen during 1 secondes, and after that ok.
In chrome://system , in the syslog section, I have this errors:
2015-05-30T14:00:39.247433+02:00 INFO kernel: [ 2493.004034] [drm] stuck on render ring
2015-05-30T14:00:39.247458+02:00 INFO kernel: [ 2493.005023] [drm] GPU HANG: ecode 4:0:0x9f47f9fd, in chrome [16256], reason: Ring hung, action: reset
2015-05-30T14:00:39.272765+02:00 INFO crash_reporter[16265]: developer image – collect udev crash info.
2015-05-30T14:00:39.287273+02:00 NOTICE kernel: [ 2493.045715] drm/i915: Resetting chip after gpu hang
I check in some forum that suggest a problem with the i915 graphic nd to try:
i915.enable_execlists=0
If I’m right, this this already the case because:
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_execlists
contain a zero: 0
No solution for now, but it’s not a blocking issue
Installed to hard drive of Latitude 2100. Boots quickly. When searching for wifi networks, no SSID’s are detected. Additionally, I have to manually enter SSID and password each time the machine is rebooted.
Is the Broadcom BCM5721 driver in this build?
Not by design… Have you tried it?
No, but if you could add it in the next build that would be awesome!
Can we get the RTL8723au driver. I have everything working but wifi on my laptop.
Added to the list…
I’m getting a
flashrom:(many numbers, it does this many times on seperate lines) map pfn expected mapping type uncached-minus for [mem 0x00000000-0x00003fff], got write-back
error, which won’t let me log in (it stays on the black screen with Booting the kernel.), but it doesn’t stop me from logging into the developer shell. Advice?