So far so good.

[tjplaw]

I just installed Linux Mint this week on my desktop PC, so far so good.

My only minor complaint are the browsers.
I use Firefox, Opera and Chrome, scrolling is choppy on most website, no smooth scrolling, any fixes for this?

[libssd]

Strictly guessing, but sounds like a video driver problem. Your HW config is needed to get more knowledgeable responses. Open terminal, run lspci, then copy/paste result into a reply here.

[tjplaw]

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 11)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE]
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)

[phd7]

Have you installed a linux driver for your card?

I forget how I updated the driver for my Raedon card, but have you tried the application launcher - system - hardware drivers?
alternatively go to http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx and download from there

another thought is in FF - edit - preferences - advanced - tick "use smooth scrolling"

[tjplaw]

I'm still figuring out the nuts and bolts of Mint.
I need to play around some more.

I edited Firefox for smooth scrolling, no effect.
There is no support on the ATI site for any linux drivers that I can find.

Thanks for the help.

[tjplaw]

I found my card on the link provided.

Here are the options, not sure which one to download.

XFree86 4.3 Drivers Display Drivers for XFree86 4.3
Or

XFree86 4.3 Drivers
17.9MB 8.28.8 Aug. 18, 2006 Display Drivers for XFree86 4.3

X.Org 6.8 Drivers
1 of 1 17.9MB 8.28.8 Aug. 18, 2006 Display Drivers for X.Org 6.8

[phd7]

Im stumped. the bottom 2 are rpm files which are not for mint, the top one is .run which I havent come across before.
looking in the Ubuntu forums, there are a few mentions of problems with this card but no solutions.

have you looked in hardware drivers in the program list?
I cant offer any more, sorry.

[tjplaw]

Thanks for the help.