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Asus C201
The Asus C201 is a new, inexpensive, ARM-based chromebook that clocks in at one of the most affordable chromebooks manufactured to date. As of July 2015, the computer costs $169 on Amazon.com, making it an extremely appealing option for those on a very tight budget.
Being an ARM-based machine, it is prone to significantly more hurdles than its Intel-driven counterparts. This article is meant to be a repository for out-of-the-box distribution/target combination testing, to give potential buyers an idea of which environments will work and which ones will not.
Additionally, this can be used as a jumping off point for improvements to the support coverage on ARM based machines.
#x11 Does not find any screens/fbdev not found
If running C201 you must run the following commands before running 'enter-chroot startxfce4', every time you run it.
sudo enter-chroot
sudo rm /dev/dri/card0
sudo mv /dev/dri/card1 /dev/dri/card0
For people with ASUS c201 trying to install Crouton and run xfce4 environment and dealing with issues such as Screen not found Fatal error, xfce unable to contact server settings, and other errors related to dbus contextx, file directory not found, its all due to the chroot "precise". Probably, it is not compatible with c201. Crouton will work fine if you install the latest "trusty" chroot. Use the "trusty" option to install xfce while installing crouton.
sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r trusty -t lxde
I now have debian jessie up and running with no tabs open except crosh. When Jessie is running i have about 1.2 gigs left of RAM. Plenty fast too.
(I did not need to do the above. Running ubuntu trusty with xfce, xiwi.)
todo
- Ubuntu Vivid works fine too. You need it to get more recent versions of Emacs from the repositories. Browsing is a bit slow on Chromium but Emacs flies on this machine of course. Overall I get a 2% to 8% CPU usage. Battery life is ridiculously high. 15 hours or more.