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thank you for your help, much appreciated

thank you, i did the fresh install, all good, now just the lost icons, was ok until i installed skype 4.1, after that the icons on task bar and start menu went away.

the drivers installed default are the Gallium, i thought they were Nouveau, anyway Gallium it is.

problem now is that cinnamon loses its icons on task bar and start menu

yes, thank you jungle_boy, appreciate your help, i have mint 14.1 back up and running properly again (with /boot, swap, /, /home), seems that with a repair install the rule is to not format / when /home is on another partition. what are the hidden files that keep the graphics/resolution settings in ...

yes home in another partition, partitions are /boot, swap, /, /home, dual boot with win7 screens are 2 x 24" led benq's 1920 x 1080, i had been formatting / only with the repair install, trying to set up afresh to eliminate problems with buggy package installer, it not installing stuff properly...

i had to do a repair install, now mint 14.1 cinnamon only has vesa driver, screen resolution is too low, and doesn't recognise second monitor, help to sort out graphics driver and screen resolution needed please. Thank you. i have looked at many types of solution, but going around in circles. the th...

i get this too, it goes on to update, as well as error after the update Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-security/restricted/binary-amd64...

anymore news on this one please? sometimes on login the icons on task bar and menu are either not forming properly of different ones used from what should be there, menu button, sound, calendar/time remain ok, an update to fix much appreciated, thank you :) all windows, show desktop and pinned items...

Thanks for this

possible solution: sometimes it is just that the 4 pin floppy plug isn't pushed home all the way, sometimes the plastic seat on the 4 pins where the plug pushes up to comes forward a bit, and when the plug is pushed on it doesn't have the pins fully in side itself, as such, that plastic seat needs t...

Hello there, i have had a look around for this topic, just wondering if it is possible to expand-collapse items in the left column in file manager, that is the items under Bookmarks, Computer, Devices, Network? This would make navigtion a little more useful for me. I am using LinuxMint 14.1 Nadia 64...

i found where to do a repair install from here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=46998 so far so good but that does not tell me what the problem was and how i could have fixed via shell, info on this much appreciated system settings used to give harware restricted install ie. nvid...

Hello all, unfortunately, it seems after last update, i can not log in, it says no greeter, can not log in, try log in another way, how can this be fixed please? Thank you. Nadia 64bit. asus p8h77-m le board, pentium g850, nvidia gts 250 "Cannot start the greeter application; you will not be ab...

Please upgrade the kernel to 3.3.6 or higher as the one you are using has a Nvidia graphic card issues. This is an issue with the Ubuntu release as well, this bug is also in the kernel you are using for the Debian release. A huge number of people are affected by this bug. The bug will not allow us ...

thank you very much for this, mint 13 rc cinnamon, installed the ppa no worries, installed classic menu, ticked that in cinnamon settings, log out and in, but how to have the classic menu? Could you explain or point me to a tutorial, or is this happening "NOTE: The applet fails to load if one o...

i had problems with nvidia driver on 13 rc cinnamon, stuffed things up, just uninstalled it (deactivated nvidia drivers) rebooted and all is well, just not using nvidia driver now (will see how things go after final is out), both screens work well, but do check the nvidia control centre you might be...

installed Maya rc 64bit and no worries all fixed, i'm back on mint with headphones, cheers thank you all

i notice on mine that there is, just before the desktop comes in, there is a blink of multi-colour, not sure but maybe graphics sorting itself out as the desktop loads (doesn't affect anything, desktop always loads) or some such thing

yeah, thanks for that mate, i just had a case where xp was in after mint, usually do it the other way round, this was an unusual one, anyway, tried the manual mounting and such, but ended up having success with that boot repair disk, a beauty

with mouse (you see the mouse over change the cursor) left click and try dragging the vertical to the right