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OK, finally I *think* I am on to something. My old computer's cpu lacks sse2 support and the latest versions of Adobe Flash don't work without sse2. More information here https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer/ and here [url]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697339[/url]. If I replace Fl...

Short update. I am running the 12 LXDE live CD now and Flash works just fine. inxi /Gx reports Graphics: Card: S3 VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] bus-ID: 01:00.0 X.Org 1.10.4 drivers savage unloaded: fbdev,vesa Resolution 1280x1024@60.0hz GLX Renderer Mesa DRI ProSavageDDR x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE GLX V...

It has been a while but other matters had to be dealt with. The reason for coming back to this is a recent up-date made Flash stop working in LXDE 12. Thinking my Nvidia graphics card might be involved in this a I removed it and now run using the GPU on the motherboard of this computer. Still no Fla...

I have the same problem with installation of mint 14/14.1. On an old computer that originally was running Mate 13 I tried to move to Mate 14.1 but is failing as described in this post. Also XFCE 14 RC has the same problem. With Mate 13 no problems I tried it to be sure. I will try the suggestions m...

I have changed graphics driver: Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV44A [GeForce 6200] bus-ID: 01:00.0 X.Org: 1.13.0 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) FAILED: nouveau Resolution: 1280x1024@60.0hz GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV4A GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 9.0 Direct Rendering: Yes and changed from Mint Flash plugin ...

LXDE 12 reports: Graphics: Card: nVidia NV44A [GeForce 6200] bus-ID: 01:00.0 X.Org 1.10.4 drivers nvidia unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau Resolution 1280x1024@50.0hz GLX Renderer GeForce 6200/AGP/SSE/3DNOW! GLX Version 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.30 Direct Rendering Yes And -- wait two minutes please while I re...

Hello, I am trying out Mint as a replacement for an ailing Ubuntu system and after having solved an install problem with 14.1 this weekend I just started som use testing (is Cinamon too heavy for old HW etc). To my surprise I can not get Flash to work in 14.1. Everything seem to be installed and rea...

Hello all, I have been away from Mint for some considerable time but I am back now and on the mission to find a Linux flavour for upgrading a relative's dated Ubuntu system. Mint seems like a good choice so I am trying out 14.1 on my secondary computer. I had great problems installing and even thoug...

Which version of Linux Mint are you trying to install?

/Martin

I have investigated a little and I think my original observation is caused by the inner workings of VirtualBox. I was judging the size of the installation by looking at the size of the HDs of the virtual machines as seen by the host system. I have now looked at disk usage from inside the guest syste...

I am testing on a VM as I write and to my surprise I find the XFCE version of Mint to be bigger (by about 1 GB) than both the standard Mint and Ubuntu 8.10. I have only installed what's on the CD ISO and run updates. No extra packages added.

I find this odd. Any comments?

/Martin

The XFCE edition aims at being very low on memory, but not on the expense of quality The gnome version runs OK on 384 MB but from 512 up is nice to have I know this is an old thread but it comes close to my question: What difference is there between installing XFCE on a 'vanilla' Linux Mint system ...

No, 2.3.1 this time which may explain the snappiness but it does not explain the better integration into xfce's menu. I guess someone was in a hurry when preparing the Ubuntu package.

/Martin

I just did what those instructions told me to do and it worked like a charm.
The result is much better than the Ubuntu-OOo that came with Mint!

/Martin

I got a quick reply on OOs forum for oobase: "Very often, Linux distros use a different build as the official one. You should try the official (Sun) version, see here: install the official version of OOo : [Ubuntu] Installing OOo on Debian and Co." The "see here" points at http:/...

Last weekend I started to look into OpenOffice's database tool, oobase. I struggled a bit before I found some nice tutorials and how-tos. Creating a table by using the wizzard was OK. Adding some data to the table worked fine. Time to create a report. Wizzard fires up -- not! If I invoke oobase from...

Thanks. > regionset version 0.1 -- reads/sets region code on DVD drives > ERROR: Could not retrieve region code settings of the drive! > This could mean your drive is region free and doesn't need any setting. > Would you like to change the region setting of your drive? [y/n]:n I hope this means I am...

I installed 3.0 this summer and I keep it up to date.
Does this mean I am running 4.0 by now?
If not, what are the differences between my system and 4.0?

/Martin

I have just learned that DVD r/w-units can have region specific firmware:
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/rpc1.htm

Does anyone out there know how one figures this out from Linux?
The tool mentioned in that article is a Windows app.

/Martin

Try their IRC channel. And you are sure you installed Music CD support for Windows 2000? I thought this 'feature' was off per default on NT4 and Win2K and needed to be installed extra .... I may be wrong though. Thanks scorp, I'll try out the IRC channel as well. I don't use Windows a whole lot and...