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DAMIEN1307 wrote: ⤴Wed Jul 28, 2021 1:49 am Ps...There was once an elderly man That was a Linux Wiz, by the moniker of "Catweazel" that i also held in equal esteem who a few year ago no longer appeared in the forums anymore and is sorely missed...at least by me.

You rang?

noceuraine wrote: ⤴Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:35 pm ... windows 7 ...

Create a flash or DVD of the windwoes .iso and boot from it. Then follow the bouncing ball.

kato181 wrote: ⤴Fri Dec 27, 2019 6:07 am To get better help please do the following in terminal and post the results back here between the </> brackets
inxi -Fzx

Good luck with that.

felemur wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 26, 2019 8:59 pm Thanks ...

It's a pleasure.

Cheers.

Next year, a massive 5 days away, I might upgrade my camera to 4K. Editing 4K will probably push my GPU and make use of the nvidia driver. It'll push your CPU hard as well. I run an Intel i9 9900K with nVidia RTX 2080 and transcoding just 1080p, let alone 4k, pushes it hard. Mind you, it does it qu...

felemur wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 26, 2019 8:50 pm I will try other distro's to see what happens...

Emmabuntus, MX Linux. Give those a try.

On one of my computers, the Update Manager check thingy, System Reports, recommended replacing driver xserver-xorg-video-nouveau with nvidia-driver-435. nvidia-driver-435 is a meta package with unknown content. Using the funny System Reports update, instead of a regular Update Manager or the comman...

n_otmze wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 26, 2019 8:33 pm

catweazel wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 26, 2019 6:44 pm Surely that is incorrect and should be specified without spaces.

thanks, fixed.

The invoice is in the mail.

I think the screen tearing issue can be fixed... @roblm is the forum's premiere but unsung nVidia guru, and I have enough knowledge of nVidia to tell you that you're flogging a long-dead horse. There are two essential ways to rectify tearing. One is to have a fast and powerful video card that doesn...

n_otmze wrote: ⤴Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:53 pm

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# FILES
# This setting is similar to BINARIES above, however, files are added
# as-is and are not parsed in any way. This is useful for config files.
FILES = "/ etc / modprobe.d / nvidia-drm-modeset.conf"

Surely that is incorrect and should be specified without spaces.

Evoka wrote: ⤴Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:36 pm There is something wrong...

If that were my machine, I'd be backing up my treasured stuff and forking over some hard-earned in a hurry to replace that drive.

FrankN209 wrote: ⤴Wed Dec 25, 2019 5:23 pm Hello,

I have a Dell Laptop, that I've installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on. I keep getting "tearing" in the taskbar. You can see "pixels moving"? Any cure for this?

At the top of the page, in red, it says "Before you post please read how to get help".

shockedquartz wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:55 am Hello all.
Is there an easy way to search inside files from the desktop manager instead of grepping from the command line?
Thank you.

Install catfish. Nemo is useless at searching.

cjohnsonsr1 wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:30 pm Almost every other distribution fails at this same point in the same way.

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.re ... tions.html

Nomodeset boot option.

GS3 wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:07 am You are looking for a confrontation ...

Absolutely not.

<walks off, whistling>

GS3 wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 26, 2019 6:14 am

catweazel wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:58 am What a load of cobblers.

So you have nothing of substance to say on topic and only resort to personal insults?

I referred to what you wrote, not to you, and your spray doesn't warrant a substantive reply.

GS3 wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 26, 2019 5:27 am snip major rant

What a load of cobblers.

i am trying to install yac reader but keep getting these error The following packages have unmet dependencies: yacreader : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29) but 2.27-3ubuntu1 is to be installed Depends: libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2) but 5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2.4 is to be installed Depends: libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.11.0~...

gittiest personITW wrote: ⤴Wed Dec 25, 2019 9:53 pm Yes, connected to USB OP can read it, but is it readable when plugged in internally?

"New SSD" <clone occurs> "I can read the contents".

Edit: I'm gittier than you