Hi all,
I'm running 12.3 w/ all fixes (using repos [1]) on my Samsung Chromebook
("Snow Fremont B-E 5303"). Some things I observed/stumbled on/couldn't
fix:
- In contrast to the Wiki, the webcam (UVC 1.00 device WebCam
SC-03FFM12339N 2232:1037) works for me without any tinkering (simply
installed Ekiga and chose webcam as video device).
- In contrast to the Wiki, sound works. I had to unmute some items in
alsamixer as described in [4]) - does somebody know, if this is still
dangerous ("you may fry your speakers")? Doing what exactly would be
dangerous?
- The JeOS-image from [2] (1.12.1-Build88.1, 13 Jun 2013) doesn't boot (I
used the XFCE image, 1.12.1-Build66.3, 18 Apr 2013). Booting the JeOS
image just stops at the U-Boot prompt ("SMDK5250 #").
- There is no way around building packages myself in order to play patent
encumbered video and audio (MP3 and the like), is there? I can play
Internet radio and OGG using Rhythmbox, though. I use Packman stuff (like
libmpg123) for this on my x86 systems, but Packman has no ARM repos.
- No Firefox in repos, as explained in an earlier post on this list. I
ended up installing the one from the 12.2 repo, but that one is outdated.
- I couldn't find a way to switch to the console (as with Ctrl-Alt-F1..6
on a x86 OpenSUSE). Does somebody know how to do this?
- Closing the lid starts XScreenSaver. Triggering suspend (using
"powersave -u") terminates my X session and takes me back to the lightdm
login. Subsequent attempts to suspend result in an error message
"org.freedesktop.UPower.GeneralError: Sleep has already been requested and
is pending".
- After 5 minutes of inactivity, the backlight goes off (black screen).
Touching the touchpad shows the mouse pointer, but not the desktop
(remains black). Hitting Ctrl-Alt-Leftarrow (the arrow key next to Esc)
terminates my session and takes me back to the lightdm login. Once in a
while, the Chromebook completely freezes - black screen, hard reset
(Refresh-Power) required.
- Accelerated video: [3] suggests that it is just copying libmali.so from
ChromeOS together with some symlinks to it. It isn't. X remains slow and I
get plenty of "libGL error: unable to load driver: armsoc_dri.so".
- The lightdm login screen icons (the two at the very top right, for
shutdown, etc.) are not displayed properly.
The two main showstoppers are IMHO the unaccelerated video and the crashes
mentioned above (probably related to powersaving).
Is there something I could help with? Would it be useful to provide access
to my Chromebook via SSH? Test packages? Upgrade to Factory?
[1]
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http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/12.3:/Contrib:/Chromeb...
http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/
http://download.opensuse.org/ports/update/12.3/
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[2] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/12.3:/Contrib:/Chromeb...
[3] https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Samsung/ARMChromebook
[4] http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/samsung/samsung-chromebook
Best regards,
--D.
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Daniel Bischof