2014-06-08, 17:54
(2014-06-08, 05:44)blahfod Wrote: This is what i did to get it working. Disconnect power from chromebox, wait, plug back in. turn on chromebox, (my usb stick has a light that indicates its being read) when you figure the usb stick is powered (5 seconds or so), press esc, then press 2, then press enter. (sounds dumb, but i wasnt pressing enter when trying esc-2 over and over. doing exactly as above sjhould do the trick.
blahfod
enter isn't necessary to boot, but if whatever you're booting has a GRUB boot menu, then that's why you had to hit enter (after which the GPU was re-initialized and you got video)
(2014-06-08, 05:36)jsp1 Wrote: I have a Rosewill MCE, should it be more reliable? I don't have any experience with MCE on the chromebox, so I'm just wondering if your recommendation is based on compatibility or quality? I certainly wouldn't argue that the HP you linked is of superior quality...and as IR only it is not significantly more expensive either. Not questioning your judgment here, just curious.
many/most of the MCE remotes which act as keyboard emulators send Windows-specific commands for some of the buttons, rather than keyboard scan codes. That makes them useless under linux. If your Rosewill remote doesn't do that, great, but many/most of the cheap MCE clones do, which is why I recommend a genuine MCE IR receiver/remote, as it uses actual RC6 remote codes.
