List of compatible hardware
Andreas Borutta
I'm highly interested to install chromium os on some old desktop
computers.
Some month ago I tried to install chromium os on one of these old
computers, but they freeze.
My question:
Is there any list, which hardware components (mainboard, cpu, grafic
card, printer) are compatible to chromium os.
Thanks.
Andreas
Sean Paul
Check out the developer hardware page on chromium.org:
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/getting-dev-hardware/dev-hardware-list.
This doesn't list the specific internals of the devices, but you might
find it useful.
ChromiumOS runs on top of the Linux kernel, so you can also check
whether kernel drivers exist for your hardware. If the drivers are not
available in the mainline kernel, they won't be available in
ChromiumOS.
Good luck,
Sean
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Andreas Borutta
Hi Sean.
> Check out the developer hardware page on chromium.org:
> http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/getting-dev-hardware/dev-hardware-list.
> This doesn't list the specific internals of the devices, but you might
> find it useful.
Thanks. But that that is a list of notebooks.
But I need to know, when it's worth to try (again) to install chromium
os on an old desktop computer.
> ChromiumOS runs on top of the Linux kernel, so you can also check
> whether kernel drivers exist for your hardware. If the drivers are not
> available in the mainline kernel, they won't be available in
> ChromiumOS.
All these old desktop computers I talk about, work perfectly with a
standard linux os, like Ubuntu.
But when I try to use chromium os on it, the computer freezes.
Andreas
>
> Good luck,
>
> Sean
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Andreas Borutta <bor...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm highly interested to install chromium os on some old desktop
>> computers.
>>
>> Some month ago I tried to install chromium os on one of these old
>> computers, but they freeze.
>>
>> My question:
>> Is there any list, which hardware components (mainboard, cpu, grafic
>> card, printer) are compatible to chromium os.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
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Sean Paul
> Sean Paul wrote:
>
> Hi Sean.
>
>> Check out the developer hardware page on chromium.org:
>> http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/getting-dev-hardware/dev-hardware-list.
>> This doesn't list the specific internals of the devices, but you might
>> find it useful.
>
> Thanks. But that that is a list of notebooks.
> But I need to know, when it's worth to try (again) to install chromium
> os on an old desktop computer.
>
>> ChromiumOS runs on top of the Linux kernel, so you can also check
>> whether kernel drivers exist for your hardware. If the drivers are not
>> available in the mainline kernel, they won't be available in
>> ChromiumOS.
>
> All these old desktop computers I talk about, work perfectly with a
> standard linux os, like Ubuntu.
Excellent! This means that you *should* be able to get ChromiumOS
running on them.
>
> But when I try to use chromium os on it, the computer freezes.
Do you have any output, or idea why it's freezing? There's really no
way of knowing why it's freezing without some diagnostic information.
Have you tried Hexxeh's build of cros? It includes more hardware
support than the standard build.
The next step would be to get some error output from the computer to
see where and why it's freezing. If this isn't possible, you should
take a look at the hardware you have on the computers, and whether
drivers are being compiled for it in CrOS (check out
src/third_party/kernel/files/chromeos/config/*).
Sean
Andreas Borutta
>>> ChromiumOS runs on top of the Linux kernel, so you can also check
>>> whether kernel drivers exist for your hardware. If the drivers are not
>>> available in the mainline kernel, they won't be available in
>>> ChromiumOS.
>>
>> All these old desktop computers I talk about, work perfectly with a
>> standard linux os, like Ubuntu.
>
> Excellent! This means that you *should* be able to get ChromiumOS
> running on them.
>
>>
>> But when I try to use chromium os on it, the computer freezes.
>
> Do you have any output, or idea why it's freezing?
No. It just freezes while booting.
> Have you tried Hexxeh's build of cros?
That was the build I used.
MB: ASRock K7S8XE
CPU: AMD Athlon XP2500+
RAM: 2GB
Grafic: Geforce 6200 256MB AGP
> It includes more hardware
> support than the standard build.
>
> The next step would be to get some error output from the computer to
> see where and why it's freezing. If this isn't possible, you should
> take a look at the hardware you have on the computers, and whether
> drivers are being compiled for it in CrOS (check out
> src/third_party/kernel/files/chromeos/config/*).
Hhmm. I don't understand exactly what you mean.
Andreas