Skip to content
FydeOS Help Center

Device Recognition Issues

FydeOS aims to adapt and be compatible with a wide range of hardware devices and peripherals. Due to the architecture of Chromium OS, FydeOS is currently less compatible with hardware devices that are not mainstream, not having mainline Linux kernel drivers or not supporting mainstream Linux distributions well.

A device in this context may include, but not limited to

  1. Wireless NICs

  2. Ethernet cards

  3. Sound

  4. Printers

  5. Headphone jack auto recognition

  6. Touchpad

  7. Touch screen

  8. Stylus

  9. Fingerprint reader

  10. Camera

  11. Gravity sensor module

  12. Battery balance display

  13. Power management strategy

  14. Other unique external devices

If you find that your device is not recognised on FydeOS and is therefore missing functionality, you can try running Ubuntu Desktop on your device to check its compatibility with the Linux system. If the problematic device is recognised and works well under Ubuntu but not under FydeOS, please feel free to post to FydeOS Community and provide detailed hardware information to help our development team to improve the hardware compatibility.

For experienced developer and power users, you are also more than welcome to check out openFyde where we provide guides and recipes for you to tweak the kernel drivers by yourself.

FydeOS for PC can also run on some x86 Chromebook models, but hardware support varies by model and configuration. See Does FydeOS support Chromebook devices? for compatibility guidance and information about enterprise adaptation support.