Chromebook support lands in 13.04

Today I got email that ‘xf86-video-armsoc’ landed in Ubuntu 13.04 ‘raring’. I also sent ‘linux-chromebook’ into archive.

Next step would be ‘vboot-utils’ which are now in NEW queue in Debian. Once it lands I will sync it into Ubuntu so we can sign kernels. What else needs to go into archive? Maybe OpenGLES driver. I have 0.45 packaged but need to fix showing the license.

What with support of older Ubuntu releases? I do not care about them and have a feeling that those who run them on their Chromebooks does not care as well (no one checked UCM profiles which were for verification).

So if you want to have good working Ubuntu on your Samsung ARM Chromebook then update to 13.04 or take care of backporting updates or ‘talk to the hand’.

16 thoughts on “Chromebook support lands in 13.04”

Xitij Ritesh Patel (@xitijpatel) February 5, 2013 at 18:24

This is awesome to hear! Can’t wait to update my Ubuntu install now.

Thomas Wang February 5, 2013 at 20:58

How to get the Ubuntu 13.04 for ARM Chromebook?

Marcin Juszkiewicz Post authorFebruary 5, 2013 at 22:08

Easiest way: Install ‘so called’ ChrUbuntu and do upgrade to 13.04 from it.
1. Thomas Wang February 5, 2013 at 23:03
  
  Thanks Marcin, will give it a try today!
2. Thomas Wang February 6, 2013 at 01:09
  
  It seems I have to upgrade to 12.10 first then do it again to 13.04, right?
  1. Andy February 6, 2013 at 16:14
    
    Yes thats what you have to do… be warned though the route from Chrubuntu (12.04) to 12.10 is not completely straightforward please see this link and my comments there for the steps needed.
    
    http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2012/11/23/chromebook-support-for-ubuntu/
    
    I am just updating to 13.04 as we speak
  2. Marcin Juszkiewicz Post authorFebruary 6, 2013 at 18:30
    
    You can do 12.04 -> 13.04 but no warranty that it will work ;D Going though 12.10 is safer.

Sacx February 5, 2013 at 23:01

Glad to hear that. I will upgrade tonight to the latest packages.

pfui February 6, 2013 at 10:46

What’s the status of graphics acceleration? Any chance we’ll have non-choppy animations anytime soon?

Marcin Juszkiewicz Post authorFebruary 6, 2013 at 10:54

I am build engineer not programmer so can not improve situation too much. You can try “fbdev” x11 driver instead of “armsoc” one.

Neven February 12, 2013 at 19:54

Do you know if the new xorg driver will allow HDMI out to work? This is the one feature thats make or break for me since I need to do project with it?

Ben February 15, 2013 at 10:20

Do we have a list of things that are working and not working with this release? 13.04 is in Alpha at the moment isn’t it? Do we have any idea if things will be even more supported when the final is released?

Marcin Juszkiewicz Post authorFebruary 15, 2013 at 12:23

Out of box we do not have anything in 13.04 as all support packages are stuck in NEW queue in Debian and Ubuntu.

Algus April 3, 2013 at 12:07

My issue with 12.04 has been getting flash to work. I followed some guides to copy over the ARM flash driver from Chrome OS and got Chromium to recognize the driver but it still won’t actually load it for flash videos. Any clue if this is easier to get working in 13.04?

Peter April 24, 2013 at 04:25

Is there a way to install wine on 12.04 chrubuntu on the samsung chromebook. I have ran into multiple issues ranging from unmet dependancies to broken packages. I have tried numerous purported fixes to no avail. I’m beginning to suspect a compatibility issue with the ARM processor. I’m trying to install office since libre office has issues with formatting loss. Thanks, Peter

Marcin Juszkiewicz Post authorApril 24, 2013 at 10:05

No, Wine requires x86(-64) cpu to operate.

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