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To followup on my web cam issue after a reboot from first install and update i got the web cam detected by cheese. Ditto in skype but for some reason it shows in "tile" mode e.g. it shows double view of the person im chatting with. I can live with that as long as the cam works. Now i move on to othe...

Attaching snapshot of cam & wifi buttons if this will help. As mentioned earlier these buttons dont activate no matter how pressed. Maybe someone has idea on this thanks.

P.S. the cam and wifi buttons are the first and second from the left.

In addition to the web cam issue I have a new laptop MSI CX500DX installed with LM10. Cheese cannot detect the builtin webcam. I'm trying to no avail pressing the button where a webcam icon in the laptop hoping it will activate. Has anyone have experience with this laptop in Linux? This one plus the...

oobetimer you're the MAN thank you for the helpful tip. Now i can boot to both OS with no problem. After some fiddling there I am back again in LM9. Bad habits are hard to break LOL :lol: If you use grub2 in Mint, so it sees PClinuxOS's initrd.img partition wrong. You have to edit Mint's /boot/grub/...

Great I thought the world will collapse if the file is edited!

Gotta try this later on when I'm in my linux box thanks!

Hi oobetimer! Great tip I'll have a look in the grub.cfg file. But i read somewhere this file is not meant to be edited even by root. What now :D If you use grub2 in Mint, so it sees PClinuxOS's initrd.img partition wrong. You have to edit Mint's /boot/grub/grub.cfg manually (you have to do this aft...

sudo update-grub didnt work in my early attempt. I mean it restored grub but selecting the other OS yielded kernel panic. Will have a look at the boot info script later on as I'm away from my linux box right now. Thanks for the link. I suspect though that this issue *might* be related to the fact th...

Hi dawgdoc. Sorry I'm confused as all my partitions are ext3 not ext4. Of course unless i miss something :D . However I still will look over the link you provided. I have attached screenshot of my partitions made by gparted. I think I may be able to direct you to a fix. PCLinuxOS uses Grub legacy (0...

erimendz@LM9-laptop ~ $ sudo fdisk -l [sudo] password for erimendz: Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / ...

I installed LMDE as guest in my LM9 virtualbox. Except in the partitioning section where mounting/assigning root/home/etc is not so obvious all went well. I'm just quite surprise getting a lot of updates when update manager is run. For a newly released distro system i thought you get the newest and ...

Thanks for the links. The 2nd one is the closest to my case, will try it out!

Hi all, Deviating a little bit but related somehow my situation is like this. I have LM8 exclusively installed in my laptop. Now i want to dual boot with XP/win7. Has anyone got successful in this sequence e.g. linux first then windoze last? I recall in my distant dual booting days i always do it wi...

Hey 8andsand thanks a lot for the replies. It's definitely helpful.

As for the themes I'll find something. Surely there is one or two geared towards netbook.

Is there a setting somewhere in maximus/netbook-launcher to hide other category like system tools, settings, etc? My kids will be using the netbook eventually and i dont want them to mess around with menus they dont know about. How about themes specially for netbook, what do you guys use? The resolu...

I have a Toshiba netbook and is interested in this setup. What Linux Mint flavor should be used for this, Gnome or Fluxbox? Considering the hardware involved, it would be great to use the latter. Though a 1 GB memory should be enough for Gnome to handle.

#ifconfig on live connection eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:22:14:5b:1b inet6 addr: fe80::226:22ff:fe14:5b1b/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:189 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:17 collisions:0 ...

Thanks Husse. But i think the Shared to other computers option is ONLY applicable to wired connection. My LM8 internet connection is through 3G usb modem. I cant find such sharing option in the mobile setting.

I attached some snapshots fwiw. Any further tips appreciated.

Hi all, I have LM8 laptop and network manager is flawless in handling 3G connection. Now I’m planning to get a laptop/netbook soon. I would like to connect to LM8 via network cable. What other setup do I have to do aside from turning on ICS in firestarter’s configuration? How about pc naming schemes...

I installed evolution and when i try fetching my mails at gmail the password prompt pop up again. Giving it my user password doesnt work , i have to click deny then it works in the background. I remove this applet from awn. But what bothers me is this password prompt and how to work around this. FWI...

So, no one's using this applet but me? Strange behaviour no doubt, too bad it cant be of use.