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- Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:37 pm
- Forum: Graphics Cards & Monitors
- Topic: [SOLVED] Squeezed monitor screen after multi-display attempt
- Replies: 2
- Views: 119
[SOLVED] Re: Squeezed monitor screen after multi-display attempt
@SMG Your fast reply on this day is very much appreciated. Thank you. Merry Christmas. I just checked and the Monitor Preferences do not show a Reset button. There is a Detect Monitors button. My laptop monitor is being detected with the resolution of 1024 X 768. I've been going through the sticky a...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 6:21 pm
- Forum: Graphics Cards & Monitors
- Topic: [SOLVED] Squeezed monitor screen after multi-display attempt
- Replies: 2
- Views: 119
[SOLVED] Squeezed monitor screen after multi-display attempt
Dear Minters.. I'm set up with Victoria Mint 21.2 64-bit MATE. Hooked up my 15" Asus U56E Intel-i5 to my larger Acer monitor to run a film on the larger Acer. The Display Settings would never set up display on the Acer properly --no matter what resolution set for each monitor, no matter what po...
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:59 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [SOLVED] BLANK SCREEN, still, after 2nd re-install
- Replies: 2
- Views: 341
Re: BLANK SCREEN, still, after 2nd re-install
@Hoser Rob Yes, the steps you suggested to take solved the problem. Thank you very much. I was able to reboot from the HD after renaming any folder or file in .config that potentially prevented a successful reboot. Then, I spent a few hours "reinstalling" each renamed folder (and file) in ...
- Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:55 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [SOLVED] BLANK SCREEN, still, after 2nd re-install
- Replies: 2
- Views: 341
[SOLVED] BLANK SCREEN, still, after 2nd re-install
After a successful installation of 21.2 Victoria, I began tweaking preferences to use Mint's refreshing new options for icons, colors, background, window borders, controls, pointer, etc. I also played around with various Metacity and Compton desktop settings, which had always been sticky and glitchy...
- Thu Aug 31, 2023 12:36 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [Solved] EFI Partition warning during installation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 625
Re: [Solved] EFI Partition warning during installation
Your shedding more light on this issue is appreciated. Turns out I'm about to do a reinstall because after customizing desktop, icon, window borders, etc. (refreshing new choices!), settings; also background, Compton versus Metacity et.al.. ... not sure what happened but after restarting, just got a...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 9:26 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [Solved] EFI Partition warning during installation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 625
Re: EFI Partition warning during installation
Okay, so I got really impatient, and thought I better answer this question myself by doing research about the purpose of the EFI Partition. So, cutting to the chase... . I used GParted to create three Logical Partitions in my newly-expanded reformatted (to ext4) Extended Partition: one for /, second...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 1:25 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [Solved] EFI Partition warning during installation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 625
[Solved] EFI Partition warning during installation
Minters... Using gparted, I wiped out Windows 7 and expanded an Extended Drive into this space to make more room for "/" -- Mint 21.2. During the installation process using Something Else, and after setting up partition changes and reformats (leaving /home NOT to be reformatted), I receive...
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:42 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: How to boot laptop when lid is opened?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 343
Re: How to boot laptop when lid is opened?
@Jo-con-Ël
So now I know. Thanks.
So now I know. Thanks.
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:30 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [Solved] Necessary to designate Boot Drive if no longer Dual Booting?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 171
Re: Necessary to designate Boot Drive if no longer Dual Booting?
@pbear Thank you for taking a moment for your suggestion, which I will take. I have not installed (or reinstalled) Mint OS for over five years, and surely behind in my thinking. But, the great thing about Mint, with its long-term support, is that one needn't worry incessantly about keeping up with e...
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 12:07 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: How to boot laptop when lid is opened?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 343
Re: How to boot laptop when lid is opened?
I have never come across any laptop that will start booting just because the lid is opened up ... hibernated, sleeping, or not. (Press Any Key while sleeping ... yes.) Whoops, I meant Press Any Key to wake up from sleep.
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 12:01 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [Solved] Necessary to designate Boot Drive if no longer Dual Booting?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 171
[Solved] Necessary to designate Boot Drive if no longer Dual Booting?
Dear Minters... I am getting rid of Windows! ... Woo hoo ..(except for the tiny 25G Windows 7 Recovery Partition). For years I have dual booted with Windows 7 and Mint. My current Mint OS is Sonya 18.2, but I am now about to significantly upgrade to Victoria 21.2. I always self-installed using "...
- Wed Jul 26, 2023 8:50 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: GPG: can't open 'sha256sum.txt': No such file or directory
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1223
Re: GPG: can't open 'sha256sum.txt': No such file or directory
Yes!... moving into HOME folder (actually copied from Desktop) worked to authenticate. Just downloaded MATE 21.2. and was stuck at authenticating until I saw this post.Midnight True wrote: ⤴Mon Apr 03, 2023 6:25 am this might work, move your sha256sum.txt to your/home
directory and try again
- Sat Sep 02, 2017 1:29 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Sonya 18.2 fresh install or Live DVD won't hibernate
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1261
Re: Sonya 18.2 fresh install or Live DVD won't hibernate
@catweazel @casse Used Gparted to increase SWAP to 7G (RAM is 6G) and reduced / to 13G. (Right now using my 20G partition space.) Still no hibernation with 18.2 installation or Live CD. All that happens is the desktop (and any open apps) disappears for a few seconds to black, reappears and stays fro...
- Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:59 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Sonya 18.2 fresh install or Live DVD won't hibernate
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1261
Re: Sonya 18.2 fresh install or Live DVD won't hibernate
Right now, I have a 20G partition between /windows and /home which is where I allocate for / and /swap (and /boot). My computer RAM is 6G. So, either I go back to 9G for SWAP and 12G for /, or set up another partition at the back end of /home and increase both / and /swap. I think, if I instruct Gpa...
- Thu Aug 31, 2017 11:56 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Sonya 18.2 fresh install or Live DVD won't hibernate
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1261
Re: Sonya 18.2 fresh install or Live DVD won't hibernate
@catweazel Memory: Array-1 capacity: 16 GB devices: 2 EC: None Device-1: ChannelA-DIMM0 size: 4 GB speed: 1333 MHz type: DDR3 Device-2: ChannelB-DIMM0 size: 2 GB speed: 1333 MHz type: DDR3 Partition: ID-1: / size: 15G used: 5.6G (41%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 ID-2: /boot size: 268M used: 66M (26%) fs...
- Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:41 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Sonya 18.2 fresh install or Live DVD won't hibernate
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1261
Sonya 18.2 fresh install or Live DVD won't hibernate
Recently fresh-installed Sonya 18.2. My computer cannot hibernate. Booting up from the live DVD won't hibernate, either. My partition allocation for SWAP and / (Mint) is the same I've used for a long time up through 17.3 Rebecca. Suspend/sleep function is fine. Any suggestions much appreciated. Than...
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 7:42 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: [SOLVED] Sonya 18.2 can't play DVD's/images out of the box
- Replies: 4
- Views: 962
Re: Sonya 18.2 can't play DVD's/images out of the box
Yes... thank you @richyrich. Installing mint-meta-codecs fixed the problem. I downloaded using the dialup I have... over two and a half hours. But, the codecs wouldn't "unpack" after installing. So, I went to a WiFi place, reinstalled all the codecs, and media apps work now. Like I wrote b...
- Mon Aug 28, 2017 2:22 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: [SOLVED] Sonya 18.2 can't play DVD's/images out of the box
- Replies: 4
- Views: 962
Re: Sonya 18.2 can't play DVD's out of the box
@richyrich I installed a freshly downloaded and burned Sonya 18.2 DVD... so not "upgrading" from 17.3, exactly. I did see the options to install those codecs during installation, but as I install Mint using the DVD and only have dialup here home, I did not check to install. I'll try your s...
- Mon Aug 28, 2017 1:56 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: [SOLVED] Sonya 18.2 can't play DVD's/images out of the box
- Replies: 4
- Views: 962
[SOLVED] Sonya 18.2 can't play DVD's/images out of the box
Hello Minters: Recently upgraded from Rebecca 17.3 to Sonya 18.2. DVD's or film images no longer play straight out the box. Why not? (I miss Brasero, Banshee,VLC, and Totem included with distro before... all working out of the box!) Sonya's Media Player or "XPlayer" requested these plug-in...
- Sat Aug 26, 2017 8:42 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [SOLVED] How to boot up/ unHibernate Windows? GRUB gone
- Replies: 5
- Views: 828
Re: How to boot up/ unHibernate Windows? GRUB gone
@austin.texas @catweazel Yes yes yes thankyou thankyou thankyou. Your terminal command worked, and I have now reinstalled Mint dual booting with Windows :D Linux is great. Mint is lovely. Life is beautiful. Before you responded with the command to de-hibernate from the Live CD terminal, I was IRC/He...