Fun with gOS: CloudBook Fixed
February 15th, 2008 by Avram Piltch, LAPTOP Online Editorial Director Current Price: $119.97 (1 seller)Good news! I finally fixed the CloudBook. Indeed as some of the users suggested, there was a way to restore the original video settings by copying a configuration file. This is basic Linux 101 to those who use Ubuntu a lot, but I, like many potential CloudBook users, am a Linux newbie. To restore the configuration file, I hit ESC at boot time and was given a menu (from Grub boot manager) which allowed me to select “recovery mode.” Unlike Windows, recovery mode in Linux, at least in gOS, is not graphical. You get a command prompt. Fortunately, I know a few basic unix/linux commands so once I knew that the config file was a file called xorg.conf which is located in the /etc/X11 directory, I simply typed cd /etc/X11 at the command prompt. I then entered ls -l to see what files were in the /etc/X11 directory. As I hoped, there was a backup copy of the xorg.conf file which was named xorg.conf.1. I entered cp xorg.conf.1 xorg.conf to copy the original xorg.conf over the dysfunctional one. It worked!
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February 15th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Glad to see you got it fixed!
Question- does the Cloudbook have an internal microphone?
-Ant
February 15th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Well that’s a hell of lot more than I would have been able to figure out.
I hope your adventures with the machine will continue. I’m interested to see if that claimed five hours of battery life holds up.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
If you plan to use Linux, I suggest you use Ubuntu for a month. It is basically a crash course in Linux 101. I learned how to fix xorg issues with my graphics as well as how to set my resolution so that it wouldn’t change. EtC. I am back on XP because of the application support but Ubuntu was fun. I also tried Vista for a month and the only thing I liked was the flashy UI, and Media Center. But I got Vista Inspirat 2 on XP and XP Media Center Edition so I got the perks of Vista without the bloat
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February 15th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Could you make a video of the Cloudbook playing YouTube or a video of the Cloudbook booting up. Cloud you also make another video of the Cloudbook side by side with the EEE PC
JAmerican