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I just installed the RC (32bit) and the updates. When I start Software Manager it starts up and immediately shuts down.

It has worked fine for me on pogo.com out of the box since Mint 9 and also with LMDE. Firefox only though, will not work with Chome. I've not had much luck with other distro's though.

I've also been getting this now and then.

I'd like to know the answer to this myself, as I'm planning to build a i3 or i5 machine and run Mint 9 on it. Although, I don't think the problems you are having are unique to that processor. Many laptop users are unable to adjust brightness (including me - Sony FW190 with Core 2 Duo processor). The...

Thanks, Oscar!
Wish I could take credit for it, but it's all the work of other people. Mostly downloaded from XFCE-LOOK.

Mint 8 XFCE CE

I figured it out. I was wrong about K3B and rubyripper not seeing the drives. They were indeed, seeing both drives, just this newbie wasn't. As far as dBpoweramp only seeing one drive, it was a Wine problem. Wine was configured to only see one drive. Problem solved.

CORRECTION TO THE ABOVE: I have just tried K3B and Rubyripper. They both have the same problem as dbPoweramp. Can only see one drive. So far they all can only see the external. I'm going to try a few reboots until it changes to the internal and see if it changes for all of them, which I suspect it w...

I am running Mint 8 KDE CE. I run dbPoweramp CD ripper under Wine. This is a laptop with an internal CD/DVD and I also have an external USB CD/DVD drive. The ripper has a drop down menu to let you select either drive. The problem is the ripping program only ever sees one drive or the other (only one...