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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0000038Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2018-01-29 11:19
Reportersteev Assigned Tosteev  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionsuspended 
PlatformarmhfOSKaliOS Version1.0
Summary0000038: Chromebook needs the xserver-xorg-video-armsoc driver
Description

The Chromebook uses a modified xorg driver called xserver-xorg-video-armsoc, as part of this installation, we will also need to package up their OpenGLES drivers. Google makes them available as a tarball, however their status is currently unknown wrt license of packaging up and shipping.

Additional Information

http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/overlays/board-overlays.git;a=blob;f=overlay-daisy/media-libs/mali-drivers-bin/mali-drivers-bin-0.45-r96.ebuild;h=6b0a675b0324daaa0d67c7c0b36838358c7a6ad3;hb=HEAD is a link to their ebuild for the driver, which is just a .run file like nvidia drivers tend to be.

Activities

steev

steev

2013-01-31 05:01

manager   ~0000014

This will also speed up Xorg startup, as well as not fill the Xorg.0.log file with some FBDEV errors (due to missing ioctls)

g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2018-01-29 11:19

administrator   ~0007971

Due to the age of the OS (Kali Moto [v1], Kali Safi [v2], Kali Rolling 2016.x), these legacy versions are no longer supported.
We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.

Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux - https://www.kali.org/downloads/)?

If you are still facing the same problem, feel free to re-open the ticket. If you choose to do this, could you provide more information to the issue you are facing,and also give information about your setup?
For more information, please read: https://kali.training/topic/filing-a-good-bug-report/

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2013-01-31 04:59 steev New Issue
2013-01-31 05:01 steev Note Added: 0000014
2013-01-31 15:23 steev Assigned To => steev
2013-01-31 15:23 steev Status new => assigned
2018-01-29 11:19 g0tmi1k Status assigned => closed
2018-01-29 11:19 g0tmi1k Resolution open => suspended
2018-01-29 11:19 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0007971