Ubuntu Guide - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Ive read for about 3 days and tried everything. Can someone please make a layman's guide on how to get ubuntu on my atrix so that I could use it on my laptop dock.
I am unlocked, rooted with stock rom but willing to change to any rom.

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Are you getting the stock webtop when you connect to your lapdock? You should see a desktop, phone window in the upper left, browser window, and and the AWN dock at the bottom.
All that without any modification.

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troycarpenter said:
Are you getting the stock webtop when you connect to your lapdock? You should see a desktop, phone window in the upper left, browser window, and and the AWN dock at the bottom.
All that without any modification.
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yes I get the stock webtop, but i want to try out ubuntu because the stock one is too boring

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A quick search will find you quite a few methods of modifying either webtop, or maybe even installing debian in a chroot environment.
Start by reading the NOOB guide to modifying webtop at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397583
Webtop is still being understood by many of us, especially how far we can push it before it breaks. I've just downloaded the source and am trying to generate a clean webtop image from it, and down the road seeing if I can create new and updated packages in a repository.

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Hey hopeing yous can help me out I am looking for a guide on how to make my own rims I am trying to make a rom that will be native ubuntu with ATRIX 4G drivers (for data and sms)
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Room7 said:
Ive read for about 3 days and tried everything. Can someone please make a layman's guide on how to get ubuntu on my atrix so that I could use it on my laptop dock.
I am unlocked, rooted with stock rom but willing to change to any rom.
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This isn't a webtop version, just straight Ubuntu on your phone using Ubuntu image, terminal and androidvnc
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zpwebsites.ubuntuinstall
I've tried it on n my MoPho and it works great, I use a bt mouse and kb as I don't own a dock but I hdmi to my tv and it's awesome.
MoPhoACTV Initiative

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Well, you can't run Ubuntu on blur/deblured OS. I don't know why. Sorry

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ovitz said:
Well, you can't run Ubuntu on blur/deblured OS. I don't know why. Sorry
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Do you mean natively or at all? Cause you can run through VNC server for sure.
MoPhoACTV Initiative

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moonzbabysh said:
Do you mean natively or at all? Cause you can run through VNC server for sure.
MoPhoACTV Initiative
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Through VNC, you will get blank screen with mouse pointer. I've tried on 5 different roms.

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Same with me... frustrating

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you can try with kernel from CM7 or CM9

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I'm on cm7 weekly6 and tried installing the img and using vnc but I think I'm missing something.I want to use the full ubuntu img so when I connect my lapdock I can use ubuntu instead of webtop.........can any point me to the thread u used to get it working on the atrix

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Room7 said:
Ive read for about 3 days and tried everything. Can someone please make a layman's guide on how to get ubuntu on my atrix so that I could use it on my laptop dock.
I am unlocked, rooted with stock rom but willing to change to any rom.
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Follow the guide troycarpenter suggested.
I finally got mine to work pretty stable with gnome and I can even change themes and sound events.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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