I'm still using Mint 19.3 ; the 5.8 kernel is for 20.1. 19.3 is supported for almost two more years. It took me a year (until the day it died) to get the computer to working pretty much the way I wanted and I just don't feel like horsing around with a new version when I have so many other things I need to be working on.MurphCID wrote: ⤴Sun May 30, 2021 2:07 pmLook at installing the 5.8 kernel, it worked with my Darter Pro.Lady Fitzgerald wrote: ⤴Sun May 30, 2021 3:17 am ...My Mint is finallybooting now after being down almost three months and in the repair shop twice. I had some problems with some programs,etc., not working quite right but I've ironed out most of them (I still can't control screen brightness and Evolution's calendar is acting up). I still haven't worked out why it refused to boot when the data drives weren't installed but I have a hunch I need to follow up on later...
In other news, I was up all night (like an idiot) tracking down the reason why the screen brightness wouldn't work. Out of the sixty some odd updates awaiting me when I finally got this machine to boot, there was one lousy update that caused it. Thanks to an excellent clue supplied Pjotr, after using Timeshift to remove all the updates, then slowing reapplying them in small batches, eschewing kernel, System76, and NVIDIA updates (which Pjotr's diagnostic procedure gave me the clue that they might be suspicious), while frequently taking Timeshift snapshots and rebooting (even though not required) I was finally able to narrow the field down to one lousy NVIDIA update (also giving me yet another reason despise NVIDIA). I blocked that update and the only problem, other than catching up on nearly three months of downtime on this computer and the Evolution calendar issue, all is good again.