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
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