Dell Chromebook 11 Wolf Bios Mod and Ubuntu Install

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So you Have a Dell Chromebook 11 Wolf and you want to run Ubunut or any other OS on this little yet powerful laptop. Here is a guide that I made to install Ubuntu on a Dell Chromebook 11. Please Note that the Celeron Model will be sluggish at the GPU. Please get a i3 Model.

 

Note- I am Not Responsible if you turn your chromebook into a brick!

 

Step 1. Removing the R/W Screw.

I assumed that you have put the chromebook into DEV mode and have a Philips Head Screw driver.

In Photo 2, it shows where is the R/W screw.

 

Step 2. Flashing Bios

You MUST make a backup if you want to revert to stock.

Start by pressing CTRL+ALT+T to get into chrosh. Now put in Bash and press enter

Now copy this command

 

cd; rm -f flash_chromebook_rom.sh; curl -O https://johnlewis.ie/flash_chromebook_rom.sh; sudo -E bash flash_chromebook_rom.sh

Put in your Sudo password

 

Now press Enter

 

Make your Bios Backup by pressing 4

Now save that to you google drive

 

Lets press 5. Flow what it says and after you finished that, press 6 and follow that also.

 

If you don't have any errors, you can restart

 

Step 3. Install Ubuntu

I Expect that you have some kind of bootable device. Press ESC and press the number that correspond to the bootable device. Now wipe the storage media and install. Use a External mouse because the X11 Drivers does NOT work. I have a Fix to that.

 

Step 4. Installing Touch pad drivers.

Ok, I expect that you have Ubuntu and able to use this command

~$ sudo nano '/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf' 

Now replace everything in the file with the patch

# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
#   Option "OptionName" "value"
#
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
      MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

Section "InputClass" 
    Identifier      "touchpad wolf cyapa" 
    MatchIsTouchpad "on" 
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" 
    MatchProduct    "cyapa" 
    Option          "FingerLow" "5" 
    Option          "FingerHigh" "10" 
EndSection

# This option enables the bottom right corner to be a right button on clickpads
# and the right and middle top areas to be right / middle buttons on clickpads
# with a top button area.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
        Option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas" "58% 0 0 15% 42% 58% 0 15%"
EndSection

# This option disables software buttons on Apple touchpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Disable clickpad buttons on Apple touchpads"
        MatchProduct "Apple|bcm5974"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

Now restart. Your touch pad should work.