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I managed to get the bluetooth card you suggested this time but still I cannot get my wifes headphones to work. I get the error that pairing failed if I try. Please someone help me get these working. Here is a picture correct card I got this time https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TA-MB9ejTYigkKPX7gsf...

I bought a Intel 7260 dual band wifi/BT and I still cannot get the bluetooth to work. I looked everywhere for a single band as you said but could not find one anywhere so tried the dual band one without success. Can you help

Thanks very much for that info. Just have to find where it's hidden. This vaio has no trapdoors you can open but might be beind keyboard.

My wife bought herself a set of bluetooth headphones but when I tried them on here Sony Vaio laptop I could not get them recognised by its onboard bluetooth. Just to make sure it did have bluetooth onboard I did A "sudo lshw" and it found this section under usb1: description: Generic USB d...

Cant get anywhere with gparted, what commands would i use from the command line to delere all partitions and completely wipe the card then partition it and format it to fat32.

Yes I am sure its the mate Desktop on 19.3 Tricia. I am desperately trying to recover a brand new 32gb SDHC card I was deleting files from when it hung on me again. When it hangs there is no option but to hold down the power button and kill the laptop as it wont even shut down from mint. I am trying...

I have noticed that everytime I try to delete multiple files from any USB drive or SDcard that it stalls and just hangs forever at 1file to delete.
Trouble is this has ruined a few USB flash drives and some SDcards.
How do I stop this happening??

I recently replaced Mint with Ubuntu 19.10 on my desktop to give it a try for a change and every since installing it my boot up times have increased to 4m 50s. Ive been on the Ubuntu forums and I am told its these snaps that are responsible but even after disabling them its dead slow on boot up. But...

No luck here with this. As soon as I install the NVIDIA driver it gets stuck in this loop where it just can't a X. display. All I can do is reinstall Mint and then I'm back to a display with a low resolution and uses the Nvidia noveau driver. I need to be abale to get get the Nvidia driver installed...

If use that command in recovery mode as root or as user, I get errors:
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to the X server: connection refused
xinit: server error
xauth: error in locking authority file /home/jon/.xauthority

I canot break out of the loop.. is there any way of booting up without starting x. I did try running those commands ftom recovery mode root shell and even switched from root to user and tried those commands again but no luck. I just got errors like unable to locate/open x configuration file.and erro...

Anyone have a clue whats causing this and how to sort it please..

I gave you the output from my laptop not my desktop sorry. Here is the right one: System: Host: jon-desktop Kernel: 4.15.0-36-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1) Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: N/A model: 4CoreDual-VSTA serial: ...

Wrong list posted, sorry

I have had a lot of trouble installing the latest releases from Mint and Ubuntu and all are giving me the same issue. My last working system was Mint 18.04 MATE. The only way I can get to the desktop from a live CD or when I have installed it to the hard drive is to edit the startup and add "no...

Tried that and installed another theme. Problem is still there but it only affects Chromium browser I noticed. re-install chromium browser dont help

I installed Mint 18.3 a while ago now but I wasn't keen on some of the looks or colours so I went into preferences amd changed them. Ever since then all backgrounds to context menus's (right click) are all black and its impossible to see anything in the menu to select. I even st it back to how it wa...

I am still getting nowhere wit the Nvidia driver and it is imposable using cinnamon desktop. I have switched to Mate Desktop and I have managed to get the earlier Nvidia 304 legacy driver installed and have a display albeit in only 800x600. Can someone tell me how I change the refresh rates as they ...

thank you for the reply and you are exactly right. yes i did use driver manager and it went smooth right up to the reboot when it would get stuck trying to bring up a display. it seems like its trying but cant do it. when it gets stuck the only way out of it is to press ctrl alt del or press the res...

I have spent days now trying to get the Nvidia driver installed on my desktops and followed all the tutorials and guides I could find. All of them at best end up in the same outcome and that is my system stuck in a loop trying to start X. It just keeps trying and never gets to the desktop. Ive tried...