Re: [ARMedslack] New Samsung Chromebook

[Ottavio Caruso]

On 30 October 2012 19:37, Steve Pirk  wrote:
> Interesting that you mentioned Olaf Johansson. I saw his post and got very
> interested. If you want to learn about Chromium internals, I recommend a
> couple of mailing lists to join. The first is
> cros-discuss+subscr...@googlegroups.com. Olaf and many other "chromium.org"
> people are very active in discussing hacking and making the official and
> open source versions of Chrome OS work on various systems.
>
> Another group that discusses topics like dual boot and hacking Chrome OSin
> general, you might check a web only group called chromebook-central on
> Google groups.

Thanks. I have been subscribed to CRos-discuss for some time but never
posted. I have just joined Chromebook Central and I have just posted a
question there.

By the way, I would like to see what Genesi have in mind. They were
planning a device based on a quad-core Freescale IMX.6. I am more
inclined to buy a device from a small and independent manufacturer
than Google.
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Re: [ARMedslack] New Samsung Chromebook

[Steve Pirk]

Interesting that you mentioned Olaf Johansson. I saw his post and got very
interested. If you want to learn about Chromium internals, I recommend a
couple of mailing lists to join. The first is
cros-discuss+subscr...@googlegroups.com. Olaf and many other "chromium.org"
people are very active in discussing hacking and making the official and
open source versions of Chrome OS work on various systems.

Another group that discusses topics like dual boot and hacking Chrome OSin
general, you might check a web only group called chromebook-central on
Google groups.

-- steve 



On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> On 19 October 2012 10:42, Ottavio Caruso  wrote:
> > Does anybody know which ARM processor it has and if it can potentially
> > run Slackware ARM in a proper and easy way?
>
> Olof Johansson has just posted a way to install an alternative Linux
> distro on the new Chromebook:
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ
>
> He has succeded with Suse just using the Suse root filesystem and the
> Chrome OS stock kernel. It looks like a complicated procedure (at
> least for me) and the catch is that it will boot from the Chrome
> partition, but I understand that he and other developers are working
> on booting from an external storage altogether.
>
> If anybody has any ideas on this subject they will do me a great
> favour. I have a limited budget. I was saving money to buy the new
> Genesi device which hasn't come yet but this little gem is tempting me
> now.
>
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Re: [ARMedslack] Missing firmware for Ralink RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter

[Stuart Winter]

It's patch-o-rama this week!

> I copied the rt2* and rt3* firmware files from /lib/firmware on my laptop to
> the trimslice and that fixed the problem. Wireless interface is now up.

I did wonder if anybody'd ever notice that I was bundling the firmware
from the kernel source tree rather than the separate repo that's used in
x86.

Thanks - I'll put an update out for that one soon.

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[ARMedslack] Missing firmware for Ralink RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter

[Frank Donkers]

Hi,

The Trimslice is using a Ralink RT2870/RT3070 adapter via USB. When 
starting this interface in Slackwarearm 14.0, it is complaining about 
missing firmware.


I copied the rt2* and rt3* firmware files from /lib/firmware on my 
laptop to the trimslice and that fixed the problem. Wireless interface 
is now up.


regards,
Frank Donkers
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Re: [ARMedslack] New Samsung Chromebook

[Stuart Winter]

> >> Does anybody know which ARM processor it has and if it can potentially
> >> run Slackware ARM in a proper and easy way?

I'm going to wait a month or so to see how people get on with them and
whether there is support for it in the kernel.org kernel, as I don't use
other people's kernels.  If there is, I'll be getting one of these as it
matches my goal of having a laptop running Slackware ARM.
But then the dream will be fulfilled so I might have to stop working on
Slackeare and get a new hobby ;-)

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Re: [ARMedslack] Failed to Boot ARMSlackware [13.37] in Beagle Board -xm - Rev C

[Stuart Winter]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, chekkizhar N wrote:

> ok. I will wait and meanwhile will do searching as Stuart  told.
> I got this mail today [30/10/2012 in India ] only.
> But, the question and the reply was made on that day [ Sun, 21 Oct 2012  ]
> itself.
> So, what went wrong?

Time zone config on the local servers and people who wrote the mails.
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Re: [ARMedslack] Failed to Boot ARMSlackware [13.37] in Beagle Board -xm - Rev C

[chekkizhar N]

; --
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:58:06 + (GMT)
> From: Stuart Winter 
> To: Slackware ARM port 
> Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] fix for missing Xvnc in tightvnc
> Message-ID:
> 
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>
> hey Frank,
>
> [..]
> > With the help of xrdp and Xvnc I'm able to connect to my pi from any
> windows
> > pc without installing extra software. There are problems with
> international
> > keymaps, most of them patched for de layout in my version, thats not
> perfect,
> > but good enough for me.
>
> Thanks - I'll be putting out a patched package in 14.0 that contains Xvnc.
>
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> Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:46:41 + (GMT)
> From: Davide 
> To: Slackware ARM port 
> Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] New Samsung Chromebook
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>
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> 
>
> >> Does anybody know which ARM processor it has and if it can potentially
> >> run Slackware ARM in a proper and easy way?
> >
> >Olof Johansson has just posted a way to install an alternative Linux
> >distro on the new Chromebook:
> >ttps://plus.google.com/u/0/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ
> >
> >He has succeded with Suse just using the Suse root filesystem and the
> >Chrome OS stock kernel. It looks like a complicated procedure (at
> >least for me) and the catch is that it will boot from the Chrome
> >partition, but I understand that he and other developers are working
> >on booting from an external storage altogether.
> >
> >If anybody has any ideas on this subject they will do me a great
> >favour. I have a limited budget. I was saving money to buy the new
> >Genesi device which hasn't come yet but this little gem is tempting me
> >now.
>
> Can't be much more difficult then any other arm platform:
> get a kernel that works for the hardware,
> get the tools to manipulate the kernel image so that the boot loader on
> the hardware will liad it (may need to package the initrd in there too),
> setup your initrd to look for whereever you plan to put the real root
> filesystem (that will contain whatever distro uou prefer)
> find a way of writing your boot image to the hardware (and root image if
> not on a removable media),
> cross your fingers and boot.
>
> Ciao
> David
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