[sudo-discuss] Re: Convert Your Chromebook to Linux?

Peter and I worked on the chromebooks today. We flashed 2, yay!! Actually we spent most of the session looking at using a jig to do the flash without removing the motherboards. Peter was working with the one Jake mentioned (laser cut acrylic with pogo pins) But it is hard to use. Did have a label that said "Bad" Maybe there is a good that we didn't see. I was looking at making a thing that could flash many different chromebook boards. I think it is promising. I got to cut and glue and drill some bits and see. Also Peter wondered about the linux support for these chromebooks. Lubuntu has working Wifi, sound and camera. The media keys don't work. But on coming home I played with mine and found if you change the keyboard model in settings from 102-key (or whatever is the default) to "chromebook" then the volume up and down work. "Chromebook" is near the bottom of the drop down list. I tried to get the GalliumOs keyboards installed in Lubuntu (https://apt.galliumos.org/pool/main/x/xkeyboard-config/) file xkb-data_2.23.1-1ubuntu1-galliumos1_all.deb That adds a bunch of keyboards but I didn't see brightness working. But my chromebook ran out of juice before I could test more. I'll find a power adapter and try more. Thomas On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 6:13 PM Peter Mui via sudo-discuss < sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org&gt; wrote: