Erratic keyboard behaviour killed all the joy: machine became unusable for anything that may include keyboard input. Sensing that original Acer C7's Chrome OS keyboard was screwed by XFCE beyond repair, I tried a usual trick which starts in Chrome OS:
sudo cgpt add -i 6 -P 0 -S 1 /dev/sda
Semi-permanent Chrome OS boot might be useful for getting also some updates of use in Ubuntu.
When in Chrome OS, you might like to do
$ xkbcomp $DISPLAY output.xkb
Then copy output.xkb file into your $HOME folder in Chrubuntu (via flash stick, e.g.):
cp ~/output.xkb ~/.Xkeymap
Then edit .xinitrc by adding
exec xkbcomp ~/.Xkeymap $DISPLAY
Short from re-installing Chrubuntu after that XFCE desktop disaster, this substitute should repair all these ghost key presses.
Unless it doesn't.
Somebody with XFCE on top of Chrubuntu might have a better luck, or I just borked the above repair routine. Or it doesn't do anything in our case with a "ghost" keymap.
So, I'm back at original Chrubuntu where letter key presses work fine, Backlight, Mute, and Volume buttons work. I have Back and Forward buttons on my Logitech MX518 mouse, so when the "Back" and "Forward" keys on my keyboard show me some crap still instead of intended actions, I don't care. Almost.
Anyone tinkering with 64 bit ChrDebian? Or ChrMint Debian? Give me a yell, lol. I hate this Ubuntu with all its quirks they call features.
I have the Acer C7 as well and I'm using the Trinity Desktop when booted in Ubuntu. I needed to make some desktop shortcuts to get the brightness go up and down. Some issues that I am having (as others are as well) are that Skype won't work unless I plug in headphones into the jack and if you close the lid, the unit's screen won't come back on. Other than that, I'm quite happy and I use Trintiy (KDE3) on all my linux systems. Just call me "Old School".
ReplyDeleteI have successfully installed & booted both Debian & Mint Debian Edition (32-bit versions) on my C7, along with a few other distros. Don't know about 64-bit, since I abandoned it - along with ChrUbuntu. I wanted to use the kernel & modules that Google had on the macine anyway (& since there are few advantages to 64-bit with only 2GB of RAM) so, I reverted to 32-bit. However, I see no reason why 64-bit would fail. For more info, you can check out my little blog at: http://chromebooklinux.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteSure, 64 bit in 2 GB of RAM is a bad option. I upgraded my C7 to 8 GB and feel like 32 bit kernel would be a waste. My article is quite dated: what, Feb. 1? I have no strong desire to experiment with my C7 and Linux now. Reflashing UEFI/BIOS for Windows 7/8 or OS X on C7 -- maybe...
DeleteYours is a good blog, thank you. I'm trying to switch to another blog of mine: http://fassyfones.blogspot.com as I tired of getting 1000...1500 views a day on this Fine Oils and not a single penny (=no AdSense)
Understood & Thanks!! I'm afraid I won't be a very good resource for your goals, since I hate Vista, 7 & 8 even more than Ubuntu Unity and regard Apple as the new M$ (=EVIL). But, I'd still be interested in seeing them accomplished, so good luck!
DeleteThere's no love lost between me and M$/Apple too. I just wanted to make a mental exercise showing that this C7 can triple boot whatever OS. It's quite unpopular machine, and one day (Xmas?) it will be fire sold at about $150 I think. Hopefully UEFI will be broken at that time, lol.
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