Side note for those interested in what can be done in chrome. Plus it boots to chromeos in 7 seconds and has a good 8 hours of battery life. Very impressed with what this little $349 machine I got at the local Walmart (only local vendor of this model) can do. Realtime stage worthy latency and barely a blip on resources as far as processor and memory. Performance is great, one of my tests I had cadence running with carla hexter jack-dssi host, hexter getting fed into rakarrack before going out to system audio. Although chrome does not support it the raw data does pass down to crouton and it can support it.

USB-midi works, have not tried a USB audio device yet though. So your user account will probably need to be in both the audio group and hwaudio. Chrome sets up the audio hardware other than /dev/snd/seq to the group hwaudio. Fixed these in rc.local to add /dev/snd/seq to the hwaudio group as well as give the chmod to 660 (was 600)ĩ.

Udev is the issue there and exporting rules to the crouton udev instance did not resolve it. Alsa sequencer has the permissions wrong. This is a debian thing, xorg would not obey changes so I made a quick script to fix it and launch it from the XFCE startup manager.Ĩ. So the touchpad didn't recognize tap to click. Added backports, deb-multimedia and kxstudio repos (and a few other non related repos) oh and of course an apt-get update then upgradeħ. Setup chroot using debian wheezy and xfce as the distro and window manager (go get a snack, this will take a while)ĥ. This is a quick and dirty workflow guide that is all)ģ. Other than stuff not documented well yet. (instructions abound out there for most steps so I won't repeat them. So here is what I went through and some results: Goal was to see if I could turn it into a mobile soft synth engine for stage usage. So I recently purchased an HP Chromebook 14 (4gb ram version that comes with T-mobile data for life.

Crouton chromebook