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Boot ChromeOS on x86_64 PC - Supports Intel CPU/GPU from 8th gen or AMD Ryzen
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need help installing vbox drivers on chromeos in developer mode #1081

Open sainak opened 3 years ago

sainak commented 3 years ago

I installed chrome os 90 on vbox and just like everyone else I got a blank screen after chromeos logo, when I tried accessing the tty it was still a blank screen but i was able to see some text for a brief moment so I recorded the screen and played the video frame by frame and I saw this. image

I was able to log in as root so now if we just install the graphics driver we might get it to work...

Some info about my laptop: Processor: AMD ryzen 4500u OS: Archlinux 5.12.6 VBox: 6.1.22 chrome-os: zork r90

princepjamie06832 commented 3 years ago

Can't run on virtual machine and only run on physical hardware.

newbit1 commented 3 years ago

Can't run on virtual machine and only run on physical hardware.

What about the chrome-os-0.4.22.8 Version? It does run on VMs and it has quite a lot of drivers in 2/usr/lib/dri/

2413360 Jul 21  2009 i810_dri.so
2700240 Jul 21  2009 i915_dri.so
2778832 Jul 21  2009 i965_dri.so
2482964 Jul 21  2009 mach64_dri.so
2519920 Jul 21  2009 mga_dri.so
2401040 Jul 21  2009 r128_dri.so
2486384 Jul 21  2009 r200_dri.so
2499600 Jul 21  2009 r300_dri.so
2455572 Jul 21  2009 radeon_dri.so
2388688 Jul 21  2009 s3v_dri.so
2454804 Jul 21  2009 savage_dri.so
2478960 Jul 21  2009 sis_dri.so
2240948 Jul 21  2009 swrast_dri.so
2470704 Jul 21  2009 tdfx_dri.so
2333140 Jul 21  2009 trident_dri.so
2405176 Jul 21  2009 unichrome_dri.so

There must be a way to recompile and insert them into the outer Linux ENV from ChromeOS?! Every Linux Live CD/USB Installation has them as well.

sainak commented 3 years ago

Can't run on virtual machine and only run on physical hardware.

What about the chrome-os-0.4.22.8 Version? It does run on VMs and it has quite a lot of drivers in 2/usr/lib/dri/

2413360 Jul 21  2009 i810_dri.so
2700240 Jul 21  2009 i915_dri.so
2778832 Jul 21  2009 i965_dri.so
2482964 Jul 21  2009 mach64_dri.so
2519920 Jul 21  2009 mga_dri.so
2401040 Jul 21  2009 r128_dri.so
2486384 Jul 21  2009 r200_dri.so
2499600 Jul 21  2009 r300_dri.so
2455572 Jul 21  2009 radeon_dri.so
2388688 Jul 21  2009 s3v_dri.so
2454804 Jul 21  2009 savage_dri.so
2478960 Jul 21  2009 sis_dri.so
2240948 Jul 21  2009 swrast_dri.so
2470704 Jul 21  2009 tdfx_dri.so
2333140 Jul 21  2009 trident_dri.so
2405176 Jul 21  2009 unichrome_dri.so

There must be a way to recompile and insert them into the outer Linux ENV from ChromeOS?! Every Linux Live CD/USB Installation has them as well.

would it be possible to install these on arunning instance If possible can you upload these drivers somewhere.

I don't know about gentoo, and the confusing filesystem of chrome os is making it more difficult for me to modiy anything also I am able to run chrome os, its taking inputs but the display is not worling so i'm not able to see what I am typing. Looking at init messeges I could see that it was detecting the vbox network card so network shouldn't be an issue so i'm still trying to get ssh to work on it.

newbit1 commented 3 years ago

Can't run on virtual machine and only run on physical hardware. would it be possible to install these on arunning instance

I tried already both, the DRIs from the old chromeos and a modern linux. Can't tell if it really changed something, issue remains.

If possible can you upload these drivers somewhere.

dri.zip

I am not yet so familiar with this thing of adding a driver into a linux system. Could need some basic info to read about it. But I guess it is not that difficult. I assume you have to tell the kernel at least, that the drivers are there. I did find something about it though, but they are talking about the Android level, not the Linux level. Replacing Android drivers on stock Android. As you can see in Issue #303 He (sebanc), knows already how to implement them, but doesn't have the proper ones. So, If I could know how to implement them, I would try to make/find proper ones.

I don't know about gentoo, and the confusing filesystem of chrome os is making it more difficult for me to modiy anything also I am able to run chrome os, its taking inputs but the display is not worling so i'm not able to see what I am typing. Looking at init messeges I could see that it was detecting the vbox network card so network shouldn't be an issue so i'm still trying to get ssh to work on it.

Wasn't there a way to boot straight into a linux shell? instead of trying to start a display server?

sainak commented 3 years ago

I ran into some issues switching back and forth between the VTs and saw this image The drivers are already present in the kernel and frecon is using them(I think due to this I am able to see flickers of text) but its still stuggling to display anything If I boot using VboxSVGA drivers it doesnt detect any display at all and I get stuck on the dmesg screen without a shell prompt.

onlycs commented 2 years ago

Perhaps steal the drivers from chromiumOS / cloud ready / etc.

edit: steal them from chromeos flex