I doubt it is the bios, If I throw either a Ubuntu drive or a windows drive into the laptop, then the "dimming" does not occur.
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- Tue Sep 08, 2015 12:01 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Dell Inspiron 3542 inconvenience/Display dims with boot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 716
- Mon Sep 07, 2015 5:52 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Dell Inspiron 3542 inconvenience/Display dims with boot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 716
- Mon Sep 07, 2015 5:50 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Laptop screen brightness keeps dropping down
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1016
Re: Laptop screen brightness keeps dropping down
Hi Mike, I have added the following command to my "application autostart" list in the "Session and Startup" preference tool. I havent seen it dim yet, but its too early to tell if this is a fix. xbacklight set 100 Will, I would not classify this as a true fix, but it does resolv...
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 5:25 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Laptop screen brightness keeps dropping down
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1016
Re: Laptop screen brightness keeps dropping down
One question - did you see it happening with mint 17.1? I didnt on my Dell Latitude, ran an upgrade and have since seen the problem. I will have to say [tentatively] yes, but I'm not 100% sure. My Dell has become my primary system for the time being, so it will be a bit before I'm about to swap out...
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 7:30 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Laptop screen brightness keeps dropping down
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1016
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:15 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Dell Inspiron 3542 inconvenience/Display dims with boot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 716
Re: Dell Inspiron 3542 inconvenience/Display dims with boot
Well, crap.
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- Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:56 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Dell Inspiron 3542 inconvenience/Display dims with boot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 716
Dell Inspiron 3542 inconvenience/Display dims with boot
I have two system. My primary desktop is a homebuilt i5 on an ASUS motherboard running Ubuntu 14.04.3. My Dell laptop is an Inspiron model 15 / 3542 less that a year old. With the laptop, I generally swap hard drives with various flavors of Linux to play around with. I've settled on Ubuntu 15.04 and...
- Thu Jul 16, 2015 7:46 pm
- Forum: Other topics
- Topic: Can't post a response to Linux Mint Blog
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1761
Re: Solved : Can't post a response to Linux Mint Blog
One thing - you write «I almost missed it [i e, the on-screen notification] the first time [my emphasis, MHD] I posted in the blog». Should that be taken to mean that such an on-screen notification is shown only the first time a given poster posts to Clem's blog, no matter to which blog post he or ...
- Thu Jul 09, 2015 6:24 pm
- Forum: Other topics
- Topic: Can't post a response to Linux Mint Blog
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1761
Re: Solved : Can't post a response to Linux Mint Blog
Thanks for your reply, Mike ; may I ask just what you mean when you say that «it [i e, Clem's blog] will post a message back to you initially» ? Via the epost address with which one has registered, as do, for example these fora if one requests notification ? If so, I can report that for some reason...
- Sat Jul 04, 2015 7:04 pm
- Forum: Other topics
- Topic: Can't post a response to Linux Mint Blog
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1761
Re: Solved : Can't post a response to Linux Mint Blog
In my experience, most moderated sites post a notice to that effect ; indeed, generally speaking, when one has submitted a post to them a notice is displayed which says something like «your post is awaiting moderation». If memory serves, it will post a message back to you initially. However, once y...
- Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:13 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: What Linux Distros do you currently use?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 16250
Re: What Linux Distros do you currently use?
I've updated my desktop to Ubuntu 15.04 and am now running the same on my laptop.mbott wrote:Desktop, Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Laptop, Ubuntu 15.04 or Mint 17.1 (depends on my current frame of mind, which at this moment is Minty)
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- Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:41 am
- Forum: Cinnamon
- Topic: Mint 17.2 Rafaela RC1: some small things I saw
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1685
Re: MINT 17.2 RAFAELA RC1: SOME SMALL THINGS I SAW
@ Mike why dont you try to check the keyboards shortcuts: there are some shortcuts to dim and even shut down the screen backlight (in the "system" part). Maybe you have a conflict with your actual shortcut keys. I have got something like this with the audio volume at the beginning with 17...
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:39 am
- Forum: Cinnamon
- Topic: Mint 17.2 Rafaela RC1: some small things I saw
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1685
Re: Mint 17.2 Rafaela RC1: some small things I saw
Done.JosephM wrote:If you guys discover bugs in the Mint RC's please post a comment describing them either
here for Mate: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2856
or here for Cinnamon: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2855
This is the main source that is used for feedback on bugs in the RC releases.
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- Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:00 pm
- Forum: Cinnamon
- Topic: Mint 17.2 Rafaela RC1: some small things I saw
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1685
Re: MINT 17.2 RAFAELA RC1: SOME SMALL THINGS I SAW
Good afternoon Mike <snip> On the rest, I found that this distro is extremely well polished and it keeps the top of the ranking with all what I tried up to now. Best regards JF Duhamel I agree, it is very well executed and I'll hit the logs to see if I can determine why it is doing it. Other than t...
- Wed Jun 17, 2015 3:18 pm
- Forum: Cinnamon
- Topic: Mint 17.2 Rafaela RC1: some small things I saw
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1685
Re: MINT 17.2 RAFAELA RC1: SOME SMALL THINGS I SAW
So far, the only issue I've run into is that 17.2 turns down the system brightness to about 10% during boot. This is on my Dell Inspiron 15 model 3542. More of an annoyance at this time.
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- Wed Jun 17, 2015 1:32 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
- Topic: Video of Linux Mint 17.2
- Replies: 3
- Views: 508
Re: Video of Linux Mint 17.2
Just installed 17.2 Cinnamon on my laptop. Looking forward to getting it set up.
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- Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:26 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: [Chat] Still keep a Windows? Speak out your reason
- Replies: 91
- Views: 17121
Re: [Chat] Still keep a Windows? Speak out your reason
Not thrilled with the online. I've given it a try and prefer the local install.craig10x wrote:Use Turbo Tax Online...problem solvedmbott wrote:Only one reason here and that's TurboTax. If it wasn't for that, I'd add a new hard drive to my collection.
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- Fri Jun 12, 2015 12:37 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: [Chat] Still keep a Windows? Speak out your reason
- Replies: 91
- Views: 17121
Re: [Chat] Still keep a Windows? Speak out your reason
Only one reason here and that's TurboTax. If it wasn't for that, I'd add a new hard drive to my collection.
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- Fri Jun 12, 2015 12:33 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: What Linux Distros do you currently use?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 16250
Re: What Linux Distros do you currently use?
Desktop, Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Laptop, Ubuntu 15.04 or Mint 17.1 (depends on my current frame of mind, which at this moment is Minty)
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Laptop, Ubuntu 15.04 or Mint 17.1 (depends on my current frame of mind, which at this moment is Minty)
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- Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:21 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: How do you use linux?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2395
Re: How do you use linux?
Eleven months out of the year, I'm exclusively linux. The Ubuntu LTS on my primary desktop and I bounce between Linux Mint and Ubuntu (non-LTS) on my laptop. For the month I need windows on the desktop, I just swap hard drives.
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