What to do?

[ulix]

Hi folks,
i installed mint 4.0.
Now i want to do some things to ask.
How to get the latest updates?
How to change the monitor refresh? There is standing the date 75Hz, i think it is to low, because the white colour is awkward to see.
How to get the full things like mp3 decoders because i downloaded the light version.
thanks a lot!
cheers

[Tofucifer]

Open your Package Manager
Hit Refresh
Hit Mark All Upgrades
Hit Apply
That will take care of your updates

after that is done you can scroll through the package selection and select what multimedia programs and codecs you want.

You'll have to provide more info about your hardware if you want help adjusting it. Good Luck and welcome to Linux Mint.

[ulix]

Can you help me with this?
How to change the monitor refresh? There is standing the date 75Hz, i think it is to low, because the white colour is awkward to see.

[Tofucifer]

What is your Video card and Monitor? I'm assuming you're still using the xorg drivers. Have you tried clicking on preferences-> screen resolution? More specific info please

[ulix]

Hi
using ati readon x1600 and montior a cheap one from Bellagio.
i looked up at the system settings for the frequency. the is only the data 75Hz so i want to change. Screensize is 1600x1200.
How to find preferences-> screen resolution? Where is this preferences lokated? on the desktop - configure desktop?
thanks
cheers

[Tofucifer]

To find the listing click on the Darnya button, in the middle column at the bottom you'll see a preferences button, click on that and then in the right hand column, scroll down to "screen resolution"



Are you running at the proper resolution with crappy refresh? If so you'll need to find the Horizontal and Vertical refresh rates for YOUR SPECIFIC MONITOR. You should be able to Google them up, if you don't know your model # it's usually on a sticker on the back of your monitor. Once you have them you'll need to edit those values into your xorg.conf file. It's easy
Just open a terminal window and issue the following.

1: sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.bak (this makes a copy of your original xorg.conf file you can switch back to if disaster strikes)
2: sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf (this will open your main video config file in a handy dandy text editor)
scroll down to the section of the file that looks like this:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

replace the values you see there with the one's you've found for your specific hardware, MAKE NO OTHER CHANGES UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU"RE DOING Save the file and close the editor. Now restart your 'puter and you should be good to go.

in case it won't boot to GDM and gives you a black text screen, login as prompted and type

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.bak /etc/X11/xorg.conf (this places the old conf file back in place and should get you back to square one if needed) reboot and you're back.

[ulix]

Hi,
today i started my computer happy that linux worked so fine.
But now i have a realy hard problem.
I cant see the log in desktop and my desktop when i logg in (typing my password) i can only see that:

url: http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0102pf9.jpg
I didn't change anything so i can't understand why it so!
what should i do?
thanks a lot
cheers

[MagnusB]

What did you do before GDM failed? Have you changed the refresh rate? Should always be careful when doing that, as setting it to high could fry your panel.
Now, there is a easy fix to restore a broken xorg.conf, assuming you still have your livecd.
1. Boot into the liveCD.
2. Make sure the root filesystem is mounted, open nautilus/konqueror/thunar and double click on xxxGB disk or whatever.
3. Open a terminal window, and CD into your root disk:

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cd /media/disk

Make sure it is your root disk by:

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ls

This should return something like:

bin dev home lost+found

and so on.
4. Now just copy the working xorg.conf from your live session to your HDD install:

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sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /media/disk/etc/X11/xorg.conf

This is probably the easiest way to recover the xorg.conf if you didn't take a backup.

[ulix]

How to mount the root partition?
thanks

[MagnusB]

Are you using KDE or GNOME?
If you use GNOME, open mintMenu (in a live session) and select computer. On the navigation bar to the right double click on something like "50 GB disk" or a like.

[ulix]

Hi
no i use KDE!

[MagnusB]

Ok, then you might have to use mount in a terminal:

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fdisk -l

this should return something like:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000195ad

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 249 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 250 13083 103089105 83 Linux

In my case it is /dev/sda2, so I'll need to mount that:

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sudo mkdir /media/disk
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/disk

Then use my above mentioned codes to restore xorg.conf.

[ulix]

Hi,
when i type fdisk -l into the consol there is no replay!
No Devices are showed, what should i do now?
thanks

[newW2]

you need to have root privileges.

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sudo fdisk -l

[ulix]

At first i want that linux remeber 2 things when it is booting
at first everytime sudo modprobe ndiswrapper and sudo ndiswrapper -m should be runed.
then i have a question, why is my rootpassword not working at a users account for example at the szstem settings ? At the root account it works!

[MagnusB]

To load ndiswrapper at boot:

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sudo gedit /etc/modules

and add ndiswrapper to the list. As for ndiswrapper -m, that only need to run once.

[ulix]

Hi,
i found out that the
HorizSync is 30 - 98 KHz
VertRefresh 50 - 160 Hz
i typed this data into xorg.conf but it didn't works! whats to do now?
thanks

[Husse]

I just read the beginning of this topic and I don't intend to participate more in it but
there is mintUpdate for updates
specifically made to keep dangerous updates out of harms way! Please, please use it

[ulix]

Hi,
sorry, but i doesn't understand what you want to say, maybe my bad english. (Can anyone explaine in german?)
thanks a lot!!!