Thought I might re-post this warning in this Chromebook How-To thread: How to fry speakers in your Chromebook This is part of the discussion of this issue I experienced and detailed (cluttering up, buried) in the Fatdog thread: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1024008#1024008 Be very car...

I've used MrChromebox.tech for many Chromebooks: Acer C720, CB3, and my current Acer C740 and R11 Chromebooks. Great resource for information, and the ChromeOS Firmware Utility Script works really well in preparing the Chromebook for Linux install. Also use in conjunction with the firmware update, t...

Sounds like you may like a Chromebook. The current ones, can run Linux apps, ssh server, tmux, or install any Debian package.(not fully functional yet) And with built in Android with Play store, you can install almost any Android app and most functionality, even making calls. Also, Google assistant ...

I like rEFInd as the master boot manager on UEFI systems. Has a nice GUI and automatically finds other Grub2 bootloaders for the menu. I hate how each distro you install likes to take over the whole drive and the disk booting. Geez, leave my disk alone! You only get one partition. No. Make them subo...

I experienced all of these difficulties when I was trying to reformat two hard disks that I got given using gparted. Eventually after having tried to use grub4dos to write a new boot record and getting an error saying that there was not enough room to write the grub4dos entries in the master boot r...

Another thing that made me speechless is this: the link you gave indicated that the bug existed since Dec 2012, if not before. And nobody bothered to fix it? Not HP, not Acer, not Google, not anyone? Yeah, I'm surprised in this day and age that nobody lawyered up or went to the press. Guess there w...

Hmmm.....there's a report of similar speaker heating problems here: https://github.com/GalliumOS/galliumos-distro/issues/270 worrisome.... Yeah, scary. Looks like a few of them got hit with blown speakers while working on GalliumOS. I never heard of this issue till I fried my own speaker. Wish I ha...

I noticed when running Ubuntu on my laptop, max SoC audio volume is quite low - perhaps there is a known danger around pushing the chip too hard. Not sure if that's related or not. Normally, if your audio chipset is supported, getting your laptop speakers working is just a matter of selecting the r...

I reported this happening to me on DebianDog about 2 months ago. I realised that it happened after boosting a gain signal in alsa for a soc sound card btrcr_rt5640. Both speakers and the screen edging melted, could have burst into flames and burnt the house down ... no shit! Yeah, this is insane! I...

This is interesting: I just fried my laptop speaker with ALSA! Didn't think that could happen. Was just adjusting some levels in alsamixer, and I heard some beeps and pops. And then the smell...that unmistakable burning electronics smell. So I lifted up to see what was going and where the smell came...

@JD - I have a lenovo mini lappy with eMMC. Had to unhide it in Gparted (System menu, Gparted, right-click on drive, click manage flags & untick hidden) to boot from it. Was that a regular Windows laptop? This is a Chromebook, and they are a bit trickier. Have to modify firmware and special dis...

I also have an Acer Chromebook R11, but am doing frugal install to internal drive. Over in the Fatdog thread there was a kernel boot option "coldplug" that was required to allow the internal eMMC drive to be seen and load base sfs and save file from: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa...

dancytron wrote:<snipped, but good stuff>
In other words, more of the same but better, not something different.

Yep.
There are progressive forces of change that are trying to make Puppy into something it is not. Resist the call.

@jd7654: once you boot off, can you access the eMMC? (as it, does the eMMC shows up as drive icons)? If yes, then try adding "coldplug" to your boot parameter. Yes...and Bingo! That did it! Got the initial setup dialogs and it remembered my network and touchpad settings from save folder. ...

Try increasing waitdev. Some of those devices are very slow. I had earlier tried 5, didn't work. So I tried 10, same result. Went all the way to 180, still no go. The boot log on on vty1 shows: Loading savefile from /dev/mmcblk0p7 on /Fatdog64-800/fd64save-ACR But nothing is loaded. Although there ...

Can't seem to get save or split basesfs working on the Acer Chromebook R11. On my other Acer Chromebook C740 where fatdog is working perfectly, including with updated 4.19.32 kernel, any of the below works in grub.cfg: linux /Fatdog64-800/vmlinuz search=2 waitdev=3 savefile=direct:local:/Fatdog64-80...

It sounds like you didn't get the kernel-modules.sfs replaced. Ah yes, I did that a little too quickly before I ran out of the house. Now back home after midnight I have time to look at it more closely. Followed your instructions and now with 4.19.32 kernel and modules, the R11 boots up with full d...

Thank you for that information. My quickie analysis of your wireless environment. Looks like a pretty tame environment, interference *shouldn't* be too much of a challenge. You should see what that list would look like in a dense housing or apartment building environment! So you are on channel 1 wit...

I've uploaded linux-4.19.32 here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/kernels/800/ This includes the missing SOC audio modules / firmware and the PINCTRL_xxx config changes. I have an Acer R11 also. On mine, FD800 takes a long time, several minutes, to boot to the desktop, and then the keyboard doesn'...