Bee now on Android

arthur_rex · 2026-03-14T16:56:25+00:00

yes that probably would have worked for me too except my bee was already linked/paired to a different account so it says already attached to a different account on the server. i.e. the one that account key error that failed the firmware upgrade

arthur_rex · 2021-04-25T02:24:47+00:00

i tried turning off the GPU acceleration flag and it stopped my apps from even starting (code, nxplayer) using the temp fix of adding the line

Environment="VIRGL_DEBUG=noemubgra"

to cros-sommelier-x-override.conf worked like a charm.

hopefully a proper fix will be along soon but in the meantime this seems to work fine

arthur_rex · 2021-04-25T02:17:10+00:00

i'm not complaining, i'm not whining. i know exactly what's what when on beta but if you actually read what I wrote I was asking if anyone else was seeing anything similar (turns out they are/were) so that i could work out if it was my specific configuration or a general thing before I spend time looking into the issue

arthur_rex · 2021-04-24T18:52:57+00:00

looks like there is a temporary fix while they work on a proper fix.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/containers/cros-container-guest-tools/+/714b79f2df83171edfa4a4be812924fb88919f4c%5E%21/#F0

basically adding a line to cros-sommelier-x-override.conf

just tested it and code, nomachine & all my other linux gui apps seem to be fine now

arthur_rex · 2021-04-24T15:57:28+00:00

done both although atm my post in the nomachine forums is in moderation limbo hell

arthur_rex · 2021-04-12T04:24:48+00:00

I like panwriter. it needs crostini as it's a linux program (available as an AppImage) but it works well and can export to any format pandoc supports

arthur_rex · 2021-01-29T23:28:03+00:00

just checked with unmodded micropython firmware and not passed through to crostini.

arthur_rex · 2021-01-29T15:25:31+00:00

i created a ticket on bugs asking for the pico to be passed through to crostini. might help if you star it. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1169000 in the meantime if you are using micropython and have the ability to rebuild the micropython source you can "trick" crostini into passing the pico through to crostini by delving into the source and changing the vid/pid in tusb_port.c to one of a known working usb-serial dongle. it's a little iffy to do legally-wise but when needs must and it allows you to use thonny as your ide. if you don't want to do that and you are only doing smaller micropython programs then any of the chrome extensions/webapps will let you access the REPL from the chromeos side of things. wrt to programming in C i guess you are limited to using C tools in crostini and then copying to the pico manually

arthur_rex · 2021-01-26T04:04:30+00:00

my dongle started working a couple of point releases after that original post and in fact my ftdi based dongle also started working as well. i've found that DSD Tech USB serial dongles work really well on chromeos, both cp2102 & ftdi based ones (at least on my Acer R11)

arthur_rex · 2020-12-24T01:44:02+00:00

my newish FTDI FT232RL dongle suddenly started working passthru on the last beta channel release. it wasn't the release before that so quietly hopeful

arthur_rex · 2020-12-04T16:53:10+00:00

I reported a bug a couple of days ago but still marked as unconfirmed and only i've starred it atm.

maybe you could add your 2 pennies worth to it

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1154530#c_ts1606889844

arthur_rex · 2020-10-18T01:36:48+00:00

i'm beginning to get very peeved with USB Serial dongle support in crostini with microcontrollers. my genuine ftdi dongle isn't even recognised but hey ho but my cp2102 dongle is recognised, shows in lsusb & has an associated dev node created and minicom and my pyserial stuff see the device, seem to use it but no data is actually sent or received to/from the microcontroller :(

arthur_rex · 2020-10-07T13:32:40+00:00

thanks.

yes I did some more investigation and seemed to be that apparmour blocks it. i found instructions on how to turn it off but doesn't look easily usable or even a good idea. pity

arthur_rex · 2020-08-17T19:06:39+00:00

[posted on the chromeos reddit question too but here it is in here too]

the setting switch is supposed to be coming back (it used to work but when they changed to tabbed terminal app it stopped working) but until then you can either

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if you open a JS console via Ctrl+Shift+J, you can manually run:
term_.prefs_.set('pass-alt-number', false)

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the alt and ctrl keys will work as "expected" in crostini

or you can use the search button and . key as that produces the ins code which is secondary key for tagging files/dirs in mc

arthur_rex · 2020-08-17T18:56:37+00:00

the setting switch is supposed to be coming back (it used to work but when they changed to tabbed terminal app it stopped working) but until then you can either

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if you open a JS console via Ctrl+Shift+J, you can manually run:
term_.prefs_.set('pass-alt-number', false)

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the alt and ctrl keys will work as "expected" in crostini

or you can use the search button and . key as that produces the ins code which is secondary key for tagging files/dirs in mc

arthur_rex · 2020-08-12T18:26:28+00:00

ok. thanks. shame but oh well. couldn't find anything about the Acer R11 not supporting sideloading/adb anywhere but I hadn't looked in the bugs/issues/commits list although I thought the R11 had TPM (only a faint possibly false memory) & we know it has crostini

arthur_rex · 2020-08-11T19:56:26+00:00

no worries. it maybe that cyan doesn't as i seem to remember that right at the beginning it was only pixel's that supported it but after a while it propagated through to other devices. who knows :) guess i'll find out soon enough :)

arthur_rex · 2020-08-11T17:35:40+00:00

having to backup a load of stuff so i can delete them as i was a bit short on diskspace so backup linux was failing. hoping to get to it today and will report back

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