Linux Mint

[Drone]

Go and grab it if you're late to the party. It was released few days before.


New features:

MATE 1.4

Cinnamon 1.6

MDM (display manager)

Software Manager now runs as root, so users no longer have to type in their password every time they click “install”

MintStick has replaced USB-ImageWriter

You can read more about new features here



kthxbai

 

[Peter1986C]

I might pass on it, I rather use Debian or Sabayon.

 

[SIGSEGV]

i got minor trouble (it's kinda annoying) with mint's nadia cinnamon release as my desktop resolution could not fit in 1920x1080 mode. Therefore i should lowering of its resolution using 1680x1050 despite using nvidia's latest driver (310.19)

 

[Peter1986C]

Did you set the resoklution in nVidia's CP or in the "monitor" section of the CP of Cinnamon/Mint (it is split like that, resolution is most likely a "Mint" (underlying system) related thing)?
The best is to set it in the nvidia CP. Run as root and choose to save in in the X configuration file (if the nV CP styill has that option).

 

[SIGSEGV]

Did you set the resoklution in nVidia's CP or in the "monitor" section of the CP of Cinnamon/Mint (it is split like that, resolution is most likely a "Mint" (underlying system) related thing)?
The best is to set it in the nvidia CP. Run as root and choose to save in in the X configuration file (if the nV CP styill has that option).

i've tried both methods and neither through nvidia's cp nor cinnamon's display cp could not solve this problem.

 

[Peter1986C]

ok

 

[Aquinus]

i've tried both methods and neither through nvidia's cp nor cinnamon's display cp could not solve this problem.

Does it just not work or does it give you an error? I personally stopped using nVidia on *nix because it gives me trouble with multi-monitors every time and as a developer nothing pisses me off more than having to mess with my display configuration. Sometimes it would update, sometimes it wouldn't, it always wanted a restart and every time I did get it to work it would either create an X Window display with nothing or expanding the first display when AMD just works when you say, "Expand into this screen." Not to turn this into and AMD vs nVidia war, but I've had terrible luck with nVidia *nix drivers and recently quite the opposite with FGLRX (it used to give me grief, but now it just works.)

 

[SIGSEGV]

Does it just not work or does it give you an error? I personally stopped using nVidia on *nix because it gives me trouble with multi-monitors every time and as a developer nothing pisses me off more than having to mess with my display configuration. Sometimes it would update, sometimes it wouldn't, it always wanted a restart and every time I did get it to work it would either create an X Window display with nothing or expanding the first display when AMD just works when you say, "Expand into this screen." Not to turn this into and AMD vs nVidia war, but I've had terrible luck with nVidia *nix drivers and recently quite the opposite with FGLRX (it used to give me grief, but now it just works.)

it gives me an error, somehow whenever i force the display resolution into 1920x1080 mode, it has the outer 5% or so of the desktop screen off the screen. Thus about 5% of the outer edge of the desktop is not visible and makes the bottom menu bar off screen. For your information, i currently use LCD HDTV 22" which capable running on FullHD mode. In addition i connected my computer to monitor using HDMI. I haven't had any issues with my HD7970 card.

 

[Aquinus]

i currently use LCD HDTV 22" which capable running on FullHD mode.

Have you tried adjusting over/under scan? I'm not sure what options nVidia's CP offers now, but I tend to have to adjust overscan on HDTVs to get it to fit right.

 

[SIGSEGV]

Have you tried adjusting over/under scan? I'm not sure what options nVidia's CP offers now, but I tend to have to adjust overscan on HDTVs to get it to fit right.

yes, i have tried to over/under scan my monitor and as result my display went crazy and got terrible pixelated (or perhaps blurry?) even i could not see nor read the letters.

 

[SIGSEGV]

Have you tried adjusting over/under scan? I'm not sure what options nVidia's CP offers now, but I tend to have to adjust overscan on HDTVs to get it to fit right.

problem solved after read the README file, took a lil bit observation then adding

Option "UseEDID" "FALSE"

to xorg.conf and voiilaa..

in conclusion their driver still buggies especially on hdtv edid

Option "UseEDID" "boolean"

By default, the NVIDIA X driver makes use of a display device's EDID, when available, during construction of its mode pool. The EDID is used as a source for possible modes, for valid frequency ranges, and for collecting data on the physical dimensions of the display device for computing the DPI (see Appendix E, Dots Per Inch). However, if you wish to disable the driver's use of the EDID, you can set this option to False:

Option "UseEDID" "FALSE"

Note that, rather than globally disable all uses of the EDID, you can individually disable each particular use of the EDID; e.g.,

Option "UseEDIDFreqs" "FALSE"
Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE"
Option "ModeValidation" "NoEdidModes"

When this option is set for an X screen, it will be applied to all X screens running on the same GPU.

Default: True (use EDID).

 

[Easy Rhino]

problem solved after read the README file, took a lil bit observation then adding

Option "UseEDID" "FALSE"

to xorg.conf and voiilaa..

in conclusion their driver still buggies especially on hdtv edid

this isn't unusual for HDTVs. mine did this as well and i just had to open up the nvidia control panel and adjust overscan. no manual editing of xorg.conf necessary.

 

[SIGSEGV]

this isn't unusual for HDTVs. mine did this as well and i just had to open up the nvidia control panel and adjust overscan. no manual editing of xorg.conf necessary.

some people have this kind of trouble with their HDTV on nvidia driver, but the others reported just fine.

 

[Drone]

Linux Mint 17 Qiana released

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2627