2021-12-30, 20:20
Hey Again Matt (Mr Chromebox)
We talked a while back on Reddit, I'm such a fan of yours. Thanks to your UEFI FW I've been running the CN60 for like i think 8 years .. ( debian headless ) with a Kodi X11 hdmi fronted (backend daemon server services) .. it's such a tiny cheap kickass NUC alternative .. anyways I took your advice and got a ASUS chromebox 3 (Asus Chromebox CN65 Core i7-8550U w Intel UHD 620) .. did a upgrade, 32gb ram/2tb m.2 OS drive .. I want to have same setup, but w bullseye .. and take advantage of i7 for transcoding for Jellyfin out / Kodi in (x or wayland). Your FW flash worked phenomenally as usual, server side it's all setup non-dual boot latest Debian 11 with Podman/Docker for services.. Im at the last mile .. X front end/gui w kodi .. using usbC>HDMI for 60fps 4k reasons.. not there yet
It's monumentally fast .. I love it.. Im just getting around to making Kodi work in X .. and it's a bit slow.. I'm experimenting w compiled Kodi, and x11docker Kodi, and Debian repo kodi (locked at matrix 19.1)
before I set that up, I still have a few HW issues to sort out, I tried my best to get the non-free realtek and intel drivers .. both from vendor and debian non-free repos .. im down to only a few dmesg failed load errors, and I dont' see intel errors, just realtek..
sudo dmesg | grep failed
[ 4.213980] r8169 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw (-2)
[ 4.214035] r8169 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw failed with error -2
and the main one, is the kernal is trying to load a GOOGLE.BIN/so .. type driver on boot, that fails .. ( I assume this is Chromebox hw thing, probably can be ignored)
Do you have any advice for getting the drivers right for this box? the internet has a few guides, but not alot on this chromebox chipset .. I think I just need a tweek or two
I just wanna get this finished, polished off, then have it run perfectly for another 8 years again.. then bug you again for the best chromebox to buy!
Thanks in advance
We talked a while back on Reddit, I'm such a fan of yours. Thanks to your UEFI FW I've been running the CN60 for like i think 8 years .. ( debian headless ) with a Kodi X11 hdmi fronted (backend daemon server services) .. it's such a tiny cheap kickass NUC alternative .. anyways I took your advice and got a ASUS chromebox 3 (Asus Chromebox CN65 Core i7-8550U w Intel UHD 620) .. did a upgrade, 32gb ram/2tb m.2 OS drive .. I want to have same setup, but w bullseye .. and take advantage of i7 for transcoding for Jellyfin out / Kodi in (x or wayland). Your FW flash worked phenomenally as usual, server side it's all setup non-dual boot latest Debian 11 with Podman/Docker for services.. Im at the last mile .. X front end/gui w kodi .. using usbC>HDMI for 60fps 4k reasons.. not there yet
It's monumentally fast .. I love it.. Im just getting around to making Kodi work in X .. and it's a bit slow.. I'm experimenting w compiled Kodi, and x11docker Kodi, and Debian repo kodi (locked at matrix 19.1)
before I set that up, I still have a few HW issues to sort out, I tried my best to get the non-free realtek and intel drivers .. both from vendor and debian non-free repos .. im down to only a few dmesg failed load errors, and I dont' see intel errors, just realtek..
sudo dmesg | grep failed
[ 4.213980] r8169 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw (-2)
[ 4.214035] r8169 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw failed with error -2
and the main one, is the kernal is trying to load a GOOGLE.BIN/so .. type driver on boot, that fails .. ( I assume this is Chromebox hw thing, probably can be ignored)
Do you have any advice for getting the drivers right for this box? the internet has a few guides, but not alot on this chromebox chipset .. I think I just need a tweek or two
I just wanna get this finished, polished off, then have it run perfectly for another 8 years again.. then bug you again for the best chromebox to buy!
Thanks in advance
