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Have same problem in Debian Mint, Linux mint64 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 02:24:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux serial ports work fine in Windows or recent Ubuntu (which has unusable desktop!), but when booted into Debian Mint PuTTy can't open the serial port (any) This PC has a motherboard serial...

I didn't follow instructions and got a flashing cursor in the 3.0 kernel, but selecting the last working 2.6 kernel with grub allowed me to use synaptic and temporarily enabled 'debian experimental' to get the latest 285.05.09 nvidia-glx drivers (which had worked on this PC before). Have since unins...

I had a look at mate (and I see so has Clem!), its currently got the same basic version of gedit as LMDE with the same issues - and the patch mentioned refers to a file that no longer exists. However the issue has been fixed in Gnome3 gedit - it prompts to "edit anyway" and shows the erran...

Back to the original point - gedit "the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment" is particularly useless in this respect. Its had this bug for ever and the maintainers actively rejected a patch that fixed it for a while. I have a dumb tv box that produces simple text files, w...