Trisquel 11 Aramo on Samsung Chromebook Plus XE513C24

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Hardware: Samsung Chromebook Plus XE513C24 (gru_kevin)

Operating System: Trisquel 11.0.1 Aramo

The current arm64 installer for Trisquel 11 has a so far unresolved problem where the the installer doesn’t start after choosing any of the installation methods offered by the arm64 ISO’s menu of file: https://cdimage.trisquel.info/trisquel-images/trisquel-netinst_11.0.1_arm64.iso. The screen simply stays blank without anything ever showing up or happening. The issue has been discussed in the forum of Trisquel comment-178704: https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-samsung-chromebook-v1-kevin-support-group#comment-178704

Until the problem is resolved, “debootstrap” can be used as a workaround.

Most apt-get-based distributions offer an installer that can be executed from an external media, but what happen if we have an already installed system? would it be possible to install a second system from it into another drive for example? With debootstrap you can.

The way I did it, is that I installed Debian 12 into a SD card using its installer from a USB A memory. For this purpose I used and adapter/hub since this computer only has USB C inputs. Then after booting Debian from the SD card, I used debootstrap to install Trisquel 11 into the internal MMC.

NOTE: Debian contains non-free software e.g. proprietary firmware, and has repositories containing more, which is why this guide was written as a way to migrate users to Trisquel.

A step by step guide can be found in the following Trisquel’s documentation page arm64-chromebooks-trisquel-installation: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/arm64-chromebooks-trisquel-installation

The following page also details many user experiences, some fixes and some tips to improve the usability of Trisquel with this device samsung-chromebook-v1-kevin-support-group: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/samsung-chromebook-v1-kevin-support-group

A review of the device from a Trisquel’s user point of view can be found here, samsung-chromebook-v1-kevin-review: https://trisquel.info/en/samsung-chromebook-v1-kevin-review

Things that work:

• Touch screen and stylus
• Touchpad
• Speakers
• Volume buttons on side of laptop.
• Graphics
• Playing videos

Things that do not work:

• Wireless internet and Bluetooth (non free software drivers are required)
• The headphone jack does’t work
• Some times the computer stops responding with the screen shutoff while trying to hibernate or recovering from it. For this reason I disabled hibernation on my system.

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