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OK, I pulled my Dell Inspiron 1501 out from under the bed, it has the same video chipset as yours. BTW, this laptop is running LM19 Mate 64-bit without any problems whatsoever. The laptop starts up with vertical colored lines & will not successfully boot into LM and boots to Fallback mode. This...

Maybe my thread here can be helpful ? :
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Hi, I have one of the inexpensive AC1200M USB 3.0 NICs (aka Realtek RTL8812BU Wireless 802.11ac), as seen here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/AC1200Mbps-USB3-0-Dual-Band-2-4G-5G-Wifi-Adapter-802-11ac-Wireless-Network-Card-/153141393245?hash=item23a7f0375d > The NIC is plugged into a USB 2.0 port on my tr...

Hi. Thanks for your post and I'm sorry for the late reply. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "vby". Maybe just a typo of "by"? Anyway . . . I saw the -av switch (a for "all" and v for "verbose). I can see the NTFS partition in MATE's file manager "Caja"...

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Perhaps this thread should be moved to the Hardware forum?

Please advise.

And closer, "TRIM is enabled to run weekly by default in 18.04. It is a systemd service managed via systemctl, not CRON." (from https://askubuntu.com/questions/1034169/is-trim-enabled-on-my-ubuntu-18-04-installation ) And closer (from same article), "For reference, the when is control...

Ok, I had no takers on my OP, so I'm going to do some live research/training here. Hopefully this will help other Newbies. If someone doesn't think this thread is in the correct forum, please let me know. Imho, the concept of "Newbie" is relative, based on experience in various related fie...

OK, I pulled my Dell Inspiron 1501 out from under the bed, it has the same video chipset as yours. BTW, this laptop is running LM19 Mate 64-bit without any problems whatsoever. The laptop starts up with vertical colored lines & will not successfully boot into LM and boots to Fallback mode. This...

Hi Linux Mint Forums, In a Mint (via Grub) "Dual Boot" environment, I see that Linux Mint v19.1 Mate is able to TRIM a NTFS partrtiton, if ... it is mounted. Here's a fstrim for ntfs example: sudo fstrim /media/<username>/WinXP - v What I'm trying to do is add a couple lines of code to the...