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This is a big one. This move alone caught notice of Nvidia, who, for years scoffed at Linux. "Year of the Linux desktop"? No, not yet. But damn how far it has come :D

Agreed!

Ah yes, always the "semantics" to deal with. Rephrase:

"Ubuntu was the first to be majorly successful with commercial backing by pulling code from an existing major linux distro." Does that work...

"Leap-frogging" is actually a core Linux idea, ie that people improve upon code, over and over again. Ubuntu was the first to take very strong code (from Debian, the strongest at the time) and...

I work for the gas company here in my area. "High bill complaints" are the norm for this time of the year. I go out and investigate these and its usually pretty straight-forward:

-Very poorly...

You'll have to make a directory where you want it mounted, usually media folder:

sudo mkdir /media/usb

then:

sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usb

FWIW, this is the same reason I hated the...

Pics requested from Belgrade please.

I have indeed booted a few times. You can get to a boot menu by pressing F12 (Volume+ key) during boot. This allows you to select which device you want to boot from, including USB. Additionally, the...

The stateful partition was formatted, I doubt I could boot the old Ubuntu install, though I haven't tried.

Since we now have full BIOS support, I can see grub installing easily but it hasn't been...

Ok, just got done with this. I can verify 100% working. Instead of installing another OS though, I just rebooted after the BIOS flash and surprisingly Chrome started up! It erased the stateful...

.....and done.

http://www.chromeoslounge.com/cr-48-chrome-notebook/633-new-years-bang-flashing-bios-onto-your-cr-48-a.html

Happiness, relax, the guy saved the stock EFI so he can easily flash...

Just read about a guy who was sent a CR-48 only to find when he turned it on, it booted into a Chinese-language Windows 7 and had an actual BIOS installed. :lolflag:

We asked him to dump his BIOS...

Started using this shortly after enlisting into the US Army...was thinking of this song when creating it:

"Soldier Boy" by The Shirelles

jlee has created an awesome script to dual boot Ubuntu and Chrome on the CR-48 using nothing but the netbook itself (no USB stick involved or separate Ubuntu machine). Completely automated. Apologies...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcMgt3JQDxw

Edit: I hate following video links myself, but this one is worth clicking.

I look forward to seeing your guide for this. I attempted but ran into not having a 64 bit computer.

I would boot into a live cd, mount the HD of the broken installation, open /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change:

Driver "fglrx"

to

Driver "vesa"

Reboot and then install a different driver once...

Thanks for the compliments and glad you've gotten a little further in your quest.

Because as I have learned, you can screw up so that no matter what position the switch is in, it will boot into developer mode. This happened to me when I failed at trying to install Ubuntu.

In...

I assume so as there is a drop-down option when you go to the about chrome page. Keep in mind however that if you did indeed switch to development channel, you would again have to wait until the next...

Did you run Nvidia's xconfig utility? The driver installation itself creates no xorg.conf. You need to run that utility separately after the install to generate a new xorg.conf:


sudo...

Another little tidbit. You can switch your updates from the "beta" channel to the "development" channel by:

Clicking 'about chrome'>clicking 'more' link.

Note that this setting will only come...

Wow, so even the default driver isn't working for you. OK, this solution should be fool-proof.

Lets copy that xorg.conf.old back (again mount your partition from the live cd):


cd...