Revisión de Samsung Chromebook v1 Kevin Support Group de Mar, 02/18/2025 - 06:12
As revisións permítenlle rastrexar as diferenzas que hai entre distintas versións dunha entrada.
Samsung Chromebook v1 Kevin Support Group
The following documentation is a summery of what has been discussed in the forum post here. Though, it was original meant to be a guide specific to the Libreboot compatible device known as the “Samsung Chromebook v1 Kevin”, some of the info might be useful for other Trisquel’s Chromebook users.
Please feel free to make changes if you know of any improvements or more tips and tricks, and if it is still possible, post about them in the aforementioned forum post or share them with everyone on a new one with a similar name like “Chromebook support group Continuation”. I’ll be monitoring this manual too.
Install Trisquel
The current Trisquel 11.0.1 arm64 installer (here) has been reported to have problems starting on Libreboot’s supported amr64 Chromebooks. Originally reported on a no longer accessible forum post here, the problem arise after choosing "Install" while booting the install ISO. The screen stays black without any signal of activity or progress, while the expected behavior would be the start of the installation process.
To circumvent this problem, this tutorial here shows you how you can install Trisquel from a SD card Debian 12 installation until a better option is found and documented.
Tablet mode
I noticed that desktops using wayland windowing system have a tablet mode. Desktop using x11 in the other hand do not. For example KDE plasma using wayland does, while plasma using x11 doesn’t.
MATE in the other hand uses x11 and doesn’t seem to offer tablet mode either.
The package “trisquel-gnome” installs both x11 and wayland sessions, but “triskel” only installs x11. Install “plasma-workspace-wayland” to get a wayland plasma session.
I my self have chosen to use gnome shell with wayland, because this machine seems to struggle with KDE plasma quite more.
Tablet mode is activated out of the box by turning the screen all the way to the back as this device was designed in order to be used as a tablet.
Tablet mode offers some benefits if the device's tablet functionality is planned to be commonly used:
- The screen rotates depending on the screen orientation. You’ll notice though, that unfortunately this functionality is inverted out of the box on Trisquel, but I’ll show you how to create a hwdb udev file to fix that.
- Context menu is trigger if the finger is keep pressed on the screen.
- Gnome shell shows a screen keyboard every time a input to type text is clicked with the finger out of the box. Plasma should have this too, but I couldn’t find the virtual keyboard package “maliit-keyboard” that is required on the repos, and after installation, it is needed to be chosen on the “virtual keyboard” section of the “input devices” plasma settings.
- Some applications have screen functionality. For instance Abrowser will let you scroll with a finger sliding, select text by keep pressing on a word in the text, and little arrows will be shown allowing you to move the start and end of a text selection, then a kept press of a finger will trigger the context menu to copy text.
- In plasma when tablet mode is activated, many graphical elements are resized and separated in such a way that they become easier to click using fingers. This include tittle buttons to close, minimize and maximize windows, program menus and the task bar icons. I really like it. Gnome doesn’t do this. I guess some elements can be change manually or there might be a plug in that could do it.
To fix the reverse rotation all you got to do is to create the following file “/lib/udev/hwdb.d/61-sensor-local.hwdb” and its content should be the following:
sensor:modalias:platform:cros-ec-accel:*
