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I felt a need to share this with you guys I just finished my seventh or so installation of mint... went to install it to my parents computer..... I was pretty confident in myself but here... it took me approx TEN (10) hours to configure it... ARGHHH!!


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Couldn't install nvidia driver for the life of me... I tried every combination of envy, than automatix2 and finaly various howtos... in the end I went with the driver from http://www.nvidia.com. Didn't work either. Said I needed legacy drivers... than I went with their legacy drivers, and it was the first time I managed to get into X with nvidia driver.... of course... glx didn't work... naturally. Than I proceeded to do an envy manual install of legacy driver and NOW it finally worked... all the while I had some sort of kernel error with compilation this is the only way that I finally got the damn geforce 2 mx 400 to work... it took me approx. 7 hours


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printer... canon... gwah! After testing and trying and surfing, I finally found a .. !!! Ubuntu - CHECH howto for the installation of pixma ip1500 that I needed... I don't speak chech, but I was so desparate that I found a way to understand it and it finally worked.


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USB speakers... these only took me hald an hour ot figure out I have to set them as default sound card in mintConfig, and than some more to repeat the process for each one of the 6 users defined on the comp...


there... a day well used

Hi
But you got it installed , congratulations

Could have been a lot worse, you could have been installing Gentoo

Nick

Did you try just installing it from the normal repositories?

yes there was always some problem with compiling nvidia kernel... it only worked when I used the legacy driver/script from http://www.nvidia.com