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I have been unable to install LM 20 on an EightVirtues laptop and the company has not responded to email contact (even though I am only 1.5 years in a 4-year warranty). The problems are multiple and unfortunately very diffuse: - sometimes the system boots up (but only after a long time and then some...

Update: I haven't done anything to the laptop but now the date/time applet is looping through 10:04 although hwclock is still showing the correct time. It seems as if the hour is always that of the correct time, but the minute is 'frozen' ...

Update: I haven't done anything to the laptop but now the date/time applet is looping through 09:04 although hwclock is still showing the correct time.

Hi all I am running Mint 19.3 (fresh install) and yesterday the time in the calendar applet in panel stopped working. I set it to network time (Pacific Standard Daylight Time) and sudo hwclock shows that the hardware clock is working fine, but the time now loops through 08:04 all the time: the secon...

And I forgot to mention, the laptop1 also doesn't recognize other SD cards anymore so it COULD be a hardware problem, but since this all only started after the disk process wasn't concluded, I doubt that and bet it's a software thing.

Hi all I have two laptops with Mint 19.1 Cinnamon. I use a 128GB SD card for backups. Last time I shut down laptop1 that had the card in it, it turned off before a a disk process apparently involving the card was completed and now laptop1 on which that happened doesn't mount that SD card anymore. Th...

I tried the three terminal lines but it didn't work and no, there's no parallel boot possibility with Windows (I only trust Win enough for a virtual box) ;-) The system in question is a Dell XPS 8300 desktop. For now I'll try to reinstall the OS again, maybe that'll help, but I appreciate all your e...

And I am trying to get sound from speakers.

The output of inxi -Ax # =================================================== Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA GF110 High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 Card-2 Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 Sound: Advanc...

I've tried that now as well as some other combinations of settings, but to no avail - in fact, now I don't even get the startup sound anymore when I reboot

Those are listed, yes, but they are listed as both "(unplugged) (unavailable)".

Hi all I just installed Mint 19 Cinnamon on my laptop and my desktop. On the desktop, I have a sound problem: when I boot, I get the Cinnamon startup sound, but then no other sound works: no test sounds, nothing from the browser, etc. In the sound settings app on the Output tab, it recognizes a devi...

For me, this posted solution worked (after a reboot and one initial resorting of things on the desktop).

Ok, thanks a lot, I tried this: dconf-editor: org > nemo > desktop and unticked the option "use-desktop-grid", let's see whether it works!

Hi all Any idea on how I can avoid having Mint put icons on top of other icons on the desktop? For instance, my browser download folder ins the desktop and whenever I download a file, the icon for it is put on top of another icon on the very left of my desktop - why? My desktop settings are "al...

Thanks everyone!

oh cool, thanks for that one, too!

I was able to apply this

cd /to/the/stick
ls -al
# ^^^ post back what you get from that 'ls'
sudo chown username:username .
sudo chmod +w .
touch aa

to the stick when formatted as ext4 and then refomat it into ntfs with gparted - that did the trick, thanks so much!

Hi all On Mint 18.2 64bit, I am running into a problem again that apparently has been discussed for a long time but nothing I find only works for me: formatting a USB-stick with FAT 32 and then not being able to write onto it because "the destination is read-only" - is there a real fix for...

Yes, thanks, I'll try that!