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Long time Linux user here. Definitely not an expert, but know my way around, and have had a Linux desktop amongst my Windows desktops for probably 20 years or so, have used Samba for years and years, and not afraid of it. Currently using a stable 20.3 Cinnamon system, which used to work fine on my h...

Not to disrespect your gut, but I disagree. It does not happen on all platforms/GPUs. I've only every seen two cases where it happened with Intel. One case was a hardware problem and the other case was a BIOS/UEFI setting. There are known problems with Nvidia GeForce 700 series cards which has a pr...

If you are killing the power to get the computer restarted, I usually have people run the following on the subsequent boot: journalctl -rb -1 | nc termbin.com 9999 That command prints the journal log information of the prior boot cycle (the one which you stopped by pulling the plug) in reverse orde...

Once you are satisfied this is working and it is an acceptable workaround for you, please go to your first post in this topic, click the pencil icon, and add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the title so others know there is a solution in the topic. More than happy to! Also, been rummaging through sysl...

Thanks for responding.... So far, after 48 hours or so, it looks like this obtuse solution works. Not sure its a broad solution for all desktop environments, but at least for my combo (Mate/LM 20.3/AMD) it seems to work fine. After several overnight periods, the system responds fine when I hit the k...

Thanks SMG, followed all your advice from several years of helping others trying to diagnose the same problem Also, I did a test last night, and it had some interesting results. I noticed that the "Screensaver" and "Power Management" settings were competing/conflicting. Power Man...

OK, I've read 50 threads on this problem, and there seems to be no real consensus on what causes this, or how to fix it. Also, there seems to be a ton of variability based on GPUs (Intel, AMD or Nvidia all seem to have the problem), UEFI, Kernels, etc. I'm a reasonably experienced Linux user, and ha...

Samba works... Its a bear to wrestle, but there's good help here. I've been sharing between window and linux for as long as there's been Samba (and NFS too). The only words of "wisdom", is that tons of Samba config options are often out of date in the guides that are all over the internet....

What do you mean by.. NO Video again. There is no video when you install, I'm assuming you mean you have no screen and can't install? Do as deepakdeshp asked and we can progress from there. What I mean is that the screen is black.... It shows the GRUB scrips after selecting *Start Linux Mint 20.3 M...

Thanks all! Well, I played around with it for a bit, and ultimately tried an experiment, which was to swap out the M2 SATA SSD with a traditional SATA 2.5 inch SSD, and lo and behold, it now boots reliably. I can't explain it other than possibly there's some disk signature problem with the M2 SATA S...

OK, This is the same base system I've had 18.3 running on for years, perfectly stable. AMD Athlon APU on a B350 mobo, been great forever..... Decided its time to update the old workhorse, so installed a new blank M2 SATA 128 SSD, build a USB boot stick, and started the machine. FYI, doing a 20.3 MAT...

Just got some of the same errors doing the updates. Running Athlon 200E (part of Raven Ridge family). Was working fine, now, ONLY black screen after screen sleep or system sleep. System boots and runs fine, but it won't wake the screen ever. I know the system is running fine, as I can either rlogin ...

Thanks, missed that one. Weird too, as I was using Ubuntu 18.04 with Cinnamon and Samba was working perfectly fine.

Just installed LM 19.3, after being away for the past year cuz I was using AMD Raven Ridge... In the interim, I used Ubuntu with Cinnamon (it sort of made me happy) Long time Samba hacker, so not afraid to try stuff. Well, back trying to set up my new Minty desktop, and lo and behold, Samba is break...

Linux Mint 19.x is not stable with 2200G/2400G as is. You need at least kernel 4.19 or even better 4.20 and firmware version 18.50 or newer for raven ridge . Also see this post on how-to . Your issue may also be related to conflicting graphics adapters, try to disable iGPU in BIOS. This is the comp...

This is a problem with the current Kernel used with stock Mint. It doesn't support the CPU/GPU combo. I actually just installed Ubuntu and then shifted my desktop to Cinnamon. There doesn't seem to be a way to actually install Mint with the 200GE at the moment, as you can't actually see the screen. ...

There should not be any setting for M2 SSD. In SATA mode, the mobo will recognize the drive immediately as will the operating system, as it is only a different physical connection, but it still SATA. For NVMe, the Mobo should see it with no problems at all either, as the connector is set up to see e...

Mat,

I'm taking the same adventure as you. Using a 200GE, and have the same split screen as well. Will try the 19.1 beta and see what happens. Thanks for your detailed posting

Dan

Thanks so much for responding. Here's the screenshot..... Pretty plain jane stuff. installed 18.3 outta the box, no mods. just basic updates. Did the OVPN updates, thanks for that. I tried doing an update through package manager, but I guess I needed to add the repo, so now it worked. Updated to 2.4...

OK, have tried everything. I'm a reasonably experienced Linux user who can usually solve most problems, but this one has me stumped completely. Paid for a VPN service (pure vpn). It works perfectly fine on my windows 10 machines. But on my linux machines, it simply will not work...ever. I've tried t...