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  1. [ubuntu] Re: ATSC Tuner cards no longer recieve signals after newest ubuntu install?

    Well I destroyed the reinstall trying to get the nvidia 340 driver installed, it kept failing to boot.
    Finally I went to nvidia driver download and got the .run file, big mistake.
    It claimed the...
  2. [ubuntu] Re: ATSC Tuner cards no longer recieve signals after newest ubuntu install?

    I just tried something. I wiped my system partition, kept my user partition and did a fresh install. Still getting no channels on scans. Simply no signals appear.

    Same hardware same PC, Mint scans...
  3. [ubuntu] ATSC Tuner cards no longer recieve signals after newest ubuntu install?

    As a test, I tried Mint, and the tuner program kaffeine scanned and saw signals.
    The card is recognized in kaffeine.

    What can be checked for software fix as the hardware is ok. All other prior...
  4. Re: is it possible to have Mint on a usb drive boot an ubuntu installed system?

    regarding 32 bit, the old PC can not run 64 bit os.
    After I could not get 64 bit Mint to boot on the ubuntu 64 bit pc as an external bootable drive, I thought to try it on a different PC, then I...
  5. Re: is it possible to have Mint on a usb drive boot an ubuntu installed system?

    "Grub reinstall, moving / to beginning of drive (but you then have to erase Windows). Not sure what else."

    Interesting about location of files. The IDE drive when in its usb case and plugged into...
  6. Re: is it possible to have Mint on a usb drive boot an ubuntu installed system?

    Thanks, got the summary here, run from a workng ubuntu install. It asked me if one of the 1gb sata drives was a portable drive, and I said no.


    http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/4973dMjzzB/

    sdd is the...
  7. Re: is it possible to have Mint on a usb drive boot an ubuntu installed system?

    When did it get encrypted? I just installed it today, I did not select any encryption. All the Mint partition files I can view and open in ubuntu.
    IMO, the encryption message is bogus, like fake...
  8. is it possible to have Mint on a usb drive boot an ubuntu installed system?

    I have a 320gb Maxtor drive in a usb case.
    I managed to install Mint on it and it boots fine off the usb port with no other drives in an older PC.
    It is a 32 bit os install.

    I then connect it to...
  9. [SOLVED] Re: upgrade from 18.04 to 18.10 sort of failed, have to manually startx

    I had to do a fresh install, I was getting too many errors.
    Then I wiped that install as I was getting grub rescue and did not know why then, so I left it overnight to think why.

    Somehow when it...
  10. [SOLVED] upgrade from 18.04 to 18.10 sort of failed, have to manually startx

    Simple I did the upgrade just now.
    I rebooted, and it only shows text on the screen, part of the booting process.
    I goto a console terminal window, login user and password.
    Then I type startx, and...
  11. [SOLVED] Re: LAN can't show computers but shows the router

    It will work if you switch or try out linux Mint.
    Same problem here, no network discovery. For me its been like that a long time, problem is still in version 18.
    In Mint it will show the other lan...
  12. Re: wine has no menu items, installed programs, no menu items anywhere

    applications.menu does not exist either in that folder or doing a file search.
    But the 2 folders do have wine names of apps with identical looking content

    I am running stock standard ubuntu...
  13. Re: wine has no menu items, installed programs, no menu items anywhere

    applications.menu does not exist
    Thanks for trying.
  14. Re: wine has no menu items, installed programs, no menu items anywhere

    I really expect no solution to this, as it is a long standing issue with ubuntu.
    And the problem has never gone away for me in prior releases either.
    ...
  15. wine has no menu items, installed programs, no menu items anywhere

    There is a 'wine' main category only and it is entirely empty.
    I have installed several programs,, none appear.
    I installed wine 3.0
  16. Re: Teamviewer works but needed to uncheck 'allow flipping' in nvidia-settings

    I figured it out, uncheck match the resolution when connecting. It is under display properties. Not exactly easy to find.
    Then it does not modify the remote's screen (server PC) to match the client...
  17. Re: why has ubuntu devs disabled viewing windows shares, actually all shares?

    I found out for win 10 shares, they work for connecting by ip address.

    But not for windows 7 (again), must be related to the samba connection protocol version, win 10 uses a more advanced protocol...
  18. Re: why has ubuntu devs disabled viewing windows shares, actually all shares?

    Well, that was a short term fix.
    Just now at 1am, I did an upgrade, a lot of samba packages were changed by the developers.
    And now I can no longer connect to the windows 7 shares.

    I checked my...
  19. Re: why has ubuntu devs disabled viewing windows shares, actually all shares?

    I managed to get into my windows shares, in the global section of smb.conf I put


    #client max protocol = SMB2
    client max protocol = NT1

    First line did not work, second one did.

    Then...
  20. Re: Teamviewer works but needed to uncheck 'allow flipping' in nvidia-settings

    Yes, teamviewer handles it fine, no changing of screen resolution on either PC.
    It is very bad to downgrade the resolution so both PC's match, from a usability POV.

    You can disconnect the machine...
  21. Re: Teamviewer works but needed to uncheck 'allow flipping' in nvidia-settings

    Well Nomachine is an improvement speedwise, the screen refreshes quick.

    I have a significant problem though.
    One PC is running at 1080p, the other is 1024 by 768.
    I can connect to the other PC...
  22. Re: Teamviewer works but needed to uncheck 'allow flipping' in nvidia-settings

    I have a desktop file set to executable. When I go to run it by clicking on it, teamviewer disconnects the machine.
    The machine is still viewed, the mouse rolls on the screen, but for the remote PC,...
  23. Re: why has ubuntu devs disabled viewing windows shares, actually all shares?

    So what does Linux Mint use regarding samba, a different version?
    Mint worked with zero modification for windows shares.

    I have been using 18.04 since alpha 2. File sharing is the only thing not...
  24. why has ubuntu devs disabled viewing windows shares, actually all shares?

    I get nothing for the window, just a blank.

    I have a latest linux mint PC, it can view and modify windows 7 shares fine.
    'workgroup = WORKGROUP' works fine in mint.



    scott@scott-MS-7596:~$...
  25. [ubuntu] printer will not stay dead!, as in I delete and it constantly reappears

    I installed Canon mx492
    I setup the printer called it mx490, it works.

    Ubuntu creates another printer which 'Does not accepting jobs' mx490 series printer.
    that printer, I delete and it will...
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