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Application installation commands are distro-specific. In other words, what works on one flavour of Linux won't work on another. The Debian ones (work on any Debian derivative, including Debian itself, Ubuntu, Mint, and a few others) that I find the most useful: sudo apt-get install packagename (ins...

1) (you may want to do this last instead of first in case you mess up one of the later steps, then you'll still have a usable internet): Remove all links to /etc/init.d/networking from /etc/rcx.d (x in rcx.d being a number or the letter S, DON'T remove it from rc0.d or rc6.d as this is the one that ...

You can't really repair bad sectors - bad sectors means a sector of the HDD that is bad, in other words, unreliable. If scans are showing up bad sectors when they never did before, you should get a new HDD.

Because of the way that Debian Lenny works (using much older, tried and tested packages), Lenny is definitely more stable than Mint, but for what? You have really old packages, which means nowhere near as much compatibility. Squeeze is quite unstable due to the fact that it's still changing; package...

Install an ext3 /boot partition. Believe me. It will make your live easier if you ever choose to install a different distro.

For older cards, the open-source "radeon" driver works fine.

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and underneath Section "Device" add Driver "radeon"

That's rather weird. Sounds like they used a different chipset but kept the PCI ID the same as a phillips one! Naughty!

Okay, it says I have the latest nVidia driver installed. Now, when I open up "Display" in my Menu, it tells me "Your graphics driver does not support the necessary extensions to use this tool..." It also cannot detect my monitor. How can I change my refresh rates and tweak other stuff then? Which p...

It could be due to you not having good graphics drivers installed, so the it is putting some of the load onto your CPU. What is your graphics card? Find out from a lspci command.

Make sure you add those lines before "exit 0".

Try typing:
Before the modprobe.

Oh no, you have to do that when you are online. Plug it in temporarily to your router with a cable if you can, or use a different WiFi card temporarily.

Try:

sudo modprobe sis190

Post any errors

If it refers to a log or dmesg or something like that, post the last few lines of the command dmesg

Are you sure you did that correctly? No new messages seem to have appeared when you plugged it in - I'd at least expect a message from the USB driver saying it's found something.

OK then, you will just have to install mint with Vista still inserted, and remove the Vista option manually by editting /boot/grub/menu.lst. Comment out all the lines related to Vista - it will be very near the bottom, if not right at the bottom, and in a clear section. Just put a hash (#) at the be...

DNS server should be your router's IP (same as Gateway) if your ISP don't give it to you. Your router will figure out the one to use.

Does it work if you replace the computer name with the IP? If so, 1) Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf, 2) Find the line starting "hosts:", 3) Edit the line so instead of saying "files mdns4_minimal" (etc) it says "files wins mdns4_minimal" (etc). Finally, type sudo aptitude install winbind and it should work...

sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

If that doesn't get everything:

sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

The latter might uninstall packages though.

I have a very similar chipset: Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1) ...so yours should work. Try the following: ls -l /dev/video* Also try: sudo modprobe saa7134 ...and try again. If it works after doing that last command, but not aft...

Ooh god, wifi, I was being a bit of a plonker there ;p

Connect to the internet (somehow, possibly with a cable), and type:
That one command should fix everything. Should.