[hudhacks]

I am picking up a chromebox celeron today at Frys, and I want to make sure I leave with all hardware in hand. I'm hoping the community can save me a few headaches. I have read this and a couple other threads and the wiki, but there are a few things that don't seem clear at least to me.

Usb sticks:
1) can I use usb2 or do I need usb3 stick?
2) size of stick 4, 8, or 16 G?

keyboard:
1) use a wired or wireless (usb2) to flash and install other OS?

memory upgrade;
1) specs for an additional 2G, what voltage for ddr3-1600?

tia

any USB stick should work at this point. I'd recommend having 3 -- 1 for ChromeOS recovery, 1 for firmware backup, 1 for OS install

some keyboards, both wired/wireless, have issues working on the dev mode boot screen only. I know a logitech K400 will not work, but a K360 does. Once an OS is loaded everything is fine though.

ddr3-12800 1.35v. dual-voltage 1.35v/1.5v RAM should work (I'm using a dual voltage Crucial stick)

Thank you for the reply and looking forward to using your setup script, hopefully reporting success before end of the day!

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I am picking up a chromebox celeron today at Frys, and I want to make sure I leave with all hardware in hand. I'm hoping the community can save me a few headaches. I have read this and a couple other threads and the wiki, but there are a few things that don't seem clear at least to me.

Usb sticks:
1) can I use usb2 or do I need usb3 stick?
2) size of stick 4, 8, or 16 G?

keyboard:
1) use a wired or wireless (usb2) to flash and install other OS?

memory upgrade;
1) specs for an additional 2G, what voltage for ddr3-1600?

tia

USB sticks:
It is picky until you install coreboot from the script...chances are better with usb2 it seems. However, usb3 worked for me.

keyboard:
Wired for sure until you have completed all the steps to fix the software after which a wireless board will work fine. K400 by logitech works for everything except initial boot screen until you switch to coreboot and then it works fine.

memory:
oem is HYNIX 2Gb RAM MEMORY 1Rx16 DDR3 PC3L-12800S HMT425S6AFR6A-PB , any matching spec stick will work.

Edit: disregard, Matt beat me to the punch.

Thanks a lot, not disregarding see it as a 2nd source to confirm :-)

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I am picking up a chromebox celeron today at Frys, and I want to make sure I leave with all hardware in hand. I'm hoping the community can save me a few headaches. I have read this and a couple other threads and the wiki, but there are a few things that don't seem clear at least to me.

Usb sticks:
1) can I use usb2 or do I need usb3 stick?
2) size of stick 4, 8, or 16 G?

keyboard:
1) use a wired or wireless (usb2) to flash and install other OS?

memory upgrade;
1) specs for an additional 2G, what voltage for ddr3-1600?

tia

I used a generic usb 2.0 to SD card adapter with a 4GB Sandisk SD card, a wired keyboard, and this 4gb SO-DIMM (which cost $36 when i bought it about 6 weeks ago and is no longer available). Any similar speced SO-DIMM should work fine.

Jay

Great I am in, will pick it al up at lunch!

[dettrittus]

Hello,

Just a quick question to make sure I don't mess up. I dual boot OE and ubuntu minimal. Can I boot in ubuntu and run

curl -L -O http://goo.gl/3Tfu5W
sudo bash 3Tfu5W

to update the firmware to the latest version?

Edit: I found in the other thread that I need a bootable ChromiumOS USB stick.

[Matt Devo]

Hello,

Just a quick question to make sure I don't mess up. I dual boot OE and ubuntu minimal. Can I boot in ubuntu and run

curl -L -O http://goo.gl/3Tfu5W
sudo bash 3Tfu5W

to update the firmware to the latest version?

Edit: I found in the other thread that I need a bootable ChromiumOS USB stick.

No, boot a ChromiumOS USB stick and run the script from there.

[Netix]

Just ordered that : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LDLP8W/ Hope it's alright !

[Matt Devo]

Just ordered that : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LDLP8W/ Hope it's alright !

That's what I'm running

[Igor2014]

Hi Matt,
Thanks for willingness to help.
Here is the file:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88965011/dmeseg.txt
also relevant part from messages log:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8896...ssages.txt
I put the box to sleep at 20:22, waked it up at 20:24 and the box became responsive again at 20:26+.

looks like it might be due to the TPM module not behaving. Can you add 'tpm_tis.interrupts=0' to your grub kernel boot command list and see if that helps?

edit: tested and that fixes the "long resume" issue with the Fedora live USB, but it's also using a way older kernel so there's other issues as well. what kernel are you running on your Fedora install?

Thanks Matt. Have tryed it today and it works... mostly. The resume happens in millisiconds but the box won't sleep again until next reboot. And the reason, it seems, is TPM again. I'm getting the following messages:

Code:

Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: tpm_tis 00:0c: Error (38) sending savestate before suspend
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: __pnp_bus_suspend(): tpm_pm_suspend+0x0/0x1b0 [tpm] returns 38
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: dpm_run_callback(): pnp_bus_suspend+0x0/0x20 returns 38
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: PM: Device 00:0c failed to suspend: error 38
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected

Is there any option to switch off TPM completelly?

[Matt Devo]

Thanks Matt. Have tryed it today and it works... mostly. The resume happens in millisiconds but the box won't sleep again until next reboot. And the reason, it seems, is TPM again. I'm getting the following messages:

Code:

Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: tpm_tis 00:0c: Error (38) sending savestate before suspend
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: __pnp_bus_suspend(): tpm_pm_suspend+0x0/0x1b0 [tpm] returns 38
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: dpm_run_callback(): pnp_bus_suspend+0x0/0x20 returns 38
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: PM: Device 00:0c failed to suspend: error 38
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected

Is there any option to switch off TPM completelly?

PM me if you'd like to test a firmware with TPM off

[Igor2014]

Thanks Matt. Have tryed it today and it works... mostly. The resume happens in millisiconds but the box won't sleep again until next reboot. And the reason, it seems, is TPM again. I'm getting the following messages:

Code:

Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: tpm_tis 00:0c: Error (38) sending savestate before suspend
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: __pnp_bus_suspend(): tpm_pm_suspend+0x0/0x1b0 [tpm] returns 38
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: dpm_run_callback(): pnp_bus_suspend+0x0/0x20 returns 38
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: PM: Device 00:0c failed to suspend: error 38
Jun 17 19:39:55 dhcppc5 kernel: PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected

Is there any option to switch off TPM completelly?

PM me if you'd like to test a firmware with TPM off

Thanks Matt, but I think I found a solution. Removing TPM module helps:

Code:

rmmod tpm_tis
rmmod tpm_infineon
rmmod tpm

But at next reboot these modules are coming back. I gues I'm going to add boot script... or there is a better solution?

[Matt Devo]

PM me if you'd like to test a firmware with TPM off

Thanks Matt, but I think I found a solution. Removing TPM module helps:

Code:

rmmod tpm_tis
rmmod tpm_infineon
rmmod tpm

But at next reboot these modules are coming back. I gues I'm going to add boot script... or there is a better solution?

you can try adding 'tpm_tis=0' to your kernel boot params via grub, or try my test firmware. I've been running it since yesterday when I started testing this. Seems like the TPM is useless outside of ChromeOS and does nothing but cause problems, so my next update may have it disabled

[teki4u]

Does anyone know how to access OpenElec via VNC? i already have vnc viewer extension installed in chrome in my windows 8 pc and was working fine when i had ubuntu installed.
All relevant posts are about raspberry pi agrr

TIA

[tetsuya]

Does anyone know how to access OpenElec via VNC? i already have vnc viewer extension installed in chrome in my windows 8 pc and was working fine when i had ubuntu installed.
All relevant posts are about raspberry pi agrr

TIA

[WIP] jDownloader Addon with X-Server and VNC Support (i386 & x86_64)

There are two ways to this addon remotely:

- Using Xming based X-Server
- VNC Connection optionally VNC Connection to XBMC too

[hudhacks]

@matt - THANKS SO MUCH!! your script rocks! I was up and running in less than an hour, I had a slight hang issue as in post #297. The fix was simple just start over and don't touch the boot screen setting. This little box seems good so far, plan on putting it through some tests over the next few days.

[furii]

i noticed on the wiki that there are video issues with openelec (due to intel driver issues) but not with ubuntu, is that correct or is it an omission on the wiki?

[Matt Devo]

@matt - THANKS SO MUCH!! your script rocks! I was up and running in less than an hour, I had a slight hang issue as in post #297. The fix was simple just start over and don't touch the boot screen setting. This little box seems good so far, plan on putting it through some tests over the next few days.

you're welcome. I'll see if I can reproduce this and make adjustments if necessary.

i noticed on the wiki that there are video issues with openelec (due to intel driver issues) but not with ubuntu, is that correct or is it an omission on the wiki?

it's a Linux driver issue, so Ubuntu as well. I'll update the wiki to reflect that.

[furii]

ah that's what i figured. thanks for all your work.