Update to use kernel 3.17+?

[jpeterson1]

It appears that the chromebook patches have hit the mainline kernel. Do you think its worth while to update the installation script to use kernel 3.17+ rather than applying the patches onto kernel 3.13?

I've tried this out on my HP Chromebook 14 and so far everything works well. No supplemental patches required. Here's the version I installed: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc5-utopic/ (generic; amd64)

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/chrubuntu/comments/2dw1b2/offical_chromebook_driver_support_released/

[eyecreate]

I thought about it, but the goal of the installer is to stick as close as
possible to *ubuntu 14.04 due to being a LTS release. Considering how the
last LTS went, it might happen that in the next year 14.04 gets an updated
kernel(would be at least 3.17 at that point) in which then things will be
peachy. The positive point is that there is much less work for future
*ubuntu versions in the future if I add non LTS releases to the installer.

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On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:57 PM, jpeterson1 [email protected]
wrote:

It appears that the chromebook patches have hit the mainline kernel. Do
you think its worth while to update the installation script to use kernel
3.17+ rather than applying the patches onto kernel 3.13?

I've tried this out on my HP Chromebook 14 and so far everything works
well. No supplemental patches required. Here's the version I installed:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc5-utopic/ (generic;
amd64)

Source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/chrubuntu/comments/2dw1b2/offical_chromebook_driver_support_released/

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[ghost]

From what I can tell, the touchpad barely works with the 3.17-rc6-utopic kernel. I haven't tried this installer itself yet, only a vanilla Ubuntu 14.04.1 installation with the kernel on top.

[jpeterson1]

@lgierth - Did you update the sensitivity settings for the touchpad? 3.17-rc5 works fine for me with the options below.

https://github.com/eyecreate/ubuntu-chromebook-installer/blob/master/profiles/devices/acer-c720/system/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

[ghost]

You're right, I copied over all the stuff from acer-c720/system/etc, updated grub and initramfs, and the boot sequence and touchpad look a lot better now.

[ghost]

To clarify, the reason I went with a vanilla install is that I want full disk encryption.