Re: [avr-chat] Reprise: AVR Studio under VirtualBox, anyone?

[Graham Davies]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> I think some of your problems could have
> been avoided by using the "regular"/Gnome
> version of Ubuntu ...

Well, darn.  I tried Ubuntu once, but it seemed large, heavy and slow so I 
switched to Xubuntu to get a lighter system to which I could add just what I 
needed.

> Forgive me, but why don't you want to let
> GRUB take control ?

This is because of my present solution to the problem of multiple versions 
of AVR Studio.  I have multiple disk partitions with Windows XP on them. 
One is activated, the others just run to the end of the 30 day grace period 
and die.  So, I frequently re-install Windows XP and load up whichever 
version of AVR Studio I need.  Every time I do that, I would mess up GRUB. 
It's just easier to let NT Loader have its way and use it to boot GNU/Linux 
(well, actually, boot GRUB which then boots GNU/Linux).  This is not at all 
hard to do.  You just copy GRUB stage 1 off the first sector of the boot 
partition into a file, move that to the Windows C: drive and add 
C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux" to the end of boot.ini.

> I don't know what driver is installed by default
> in Xubuntu.

The ATI proprietary driver.  The configuration tool is also ATI.  I will 
take a look at the alternatives you gave.  Thanks for your interest in this, 
Vincent.

Graham.