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[SilverOneParticipant 440]

Yuck, usage limits suck out loud. My internet is one of the things I don’t skimp on. I have the hottest, AT&T can provide, and all you can eat.

As far as I know, the attack on Mint is the only known major Linux hack. It was particularly devastating to them because they had just rolled it out as their new Long Term Support version. They worked like fiends to bring out the new 18 version. I wouldn’t recommend downloading from anywhere but the official Mint server. 18 is now the new LTS, but upgrading is so easy, I just keep up with the new incremental versions.

I don’t believe in female magic anymore. And will never again gut myself to make room for it. --Narwhal--

[AutoliteParticipant]

SilverOne wrote:

Yuck, usage limits suck out loud. My internet is one of the things I don’t skimp on.

Yeah, I hear ya! I could get five times my current limit for just a few bucks more a month but that would severely cut into my Kraft Dinner budget and I’d hate to have to start skipping meals. 😀

SilverOne wrote:

As far as I know, the attack on Mint is the only known major Linux hack. It was particularly devastating to them because they had just rolled it out as their new Long Term Support version. They worked like fiends to bring out the new 18 version. I wouldn’t recommend downloading from anywhere but the official Mint server. 18 is now the new LTS, but upgrading is so easy, I just keep up with the new incremental versions.

Thanks for your help SilverOne. It’s most sincerely appreciated. I’ve got Linux Mint 18.1 up and running and I’m online with it now. The Mint 7.X versions that I was previously running were definitely pooched. The Mint 18.1 desktop has working icons and everything! I would not have figured out that the older versions were hacked. I’m very glad that you mentioned it.

With Mint 18.1 though, I’m still getting the ‘Crashed/Fallback Mode’ error message when I boot-up but at least Mint is now running…

[SilverOneParticipant 440]

I am guessing you have an nVidia display adapter? That is usually the difficulty….. The open source driver that Mint uses is not all that great. The latest commercial drivers are available in the repository (and older ones, too, in case you card isn’t covered by the latest driver). There are a couple other issues that may cause that, so if that doesn’t fix it, we’re not done yet 😉

I don’t believe in female magic anymore. And will never again gut myself to make room for it. --Narwhal--

[SilverOneParticipant 440]

Autolite wrote:

…..that would severely cut into my Kraft Dinner budget and I’d hate to have to start skipping meals.

Not cheaper than Kraft Mac and cheese, but not much more….. I also have a tight budget, and no teeth to boot, so what I do for meals… I eat a lot of Knorr’s rice sides (you can use Rice-A-Roni too; fix just like the Knorr’s sides. You don’t have to brown the Rice-A-Roni), and pasta sides. they usually run about a buck a pack. THEN, I add in a 5 oz can of meat, like chicken, ham, tuna, or if I am lucky, roast beef (also usually a buck a can). You can also throw in some frozen veggies. Sometimes I cook up a pot of pasta (2 cups of dry pasta), like for mac and cheese, and instead of the crummy powdered “cheese” (or whatever it really is), I mix in a can of meat, some relish, some olives,maybe some sliced jalapenos, grated cheese, and 1/3 to 1/2 of a cup of your favorite salad dressing. You can change the dressing up, and its a different meal everytime; eat hot or cold. With all the Knorr’s Sides choices, and several different flavors of salad dressing that I like, my meals never get boring, prep time is less than 15 minutes, and usually meals run me about $2.50 each and is probably more than I really ought to eat at one time.

I don’t believe in female magic anymore. And will never again gut myself to make room for it. --Narwhal--

[AutoliteParticipant]

SilverOne wrote:

I am guessing you have an nVidia display adapter?

According to the Windows Device Manager, the display adapter on this machine is an ‘Intel(R) 82845G/GL Graphics Controller’. I’m using the MOBO on-board graphics processor.

SilverOne wrote:

I eat a lot of Knorr’s rice sides (you can use Rice-A-Roni too;

I really like Rice-A-Roni. My main diet though is a Minute Rice casserole with canned tomatoes and corned beef. When I feel like splurging I’ll fry up some fish sticks or chicken fingers on the George Foreman grill.

Ya just gotta treat yourself once in a while… 😀

[SilverOneParticipant 440]

OK, Try this. Do an update. Go to Menu, System,then run Update Manager. When the Update Manager starts, click Refresh, then, after the refresh, click Select All, next click Install Updates. It will request authentication. Type in your password and hit enter. This will make sure you have the latest drivers, and the very latest version of Cinnamon. Then, reboot.

To be honest, this problem was why I stopped using Cinnamon. It can be licked, and it is a very attractive and usable interface…. once you get it working. The alternative is to run the machine in “Compatability Mode”, using just the VESA drivers. You lose all hardware acceleration, but you don’t have much with that machine to start with.

I don’t believe in female magic anymore. And will never again gut myself to make room for it. --Narwhal--

[AutoliteParticipant]

SilverOne wrote:

Do an update. Go to Menu, System,then run Update Manager. When the Update Manager starts, click Refresh, then, after the refresh, click Select All, next click Install Updates.

When I go ‘Menu’, ‘System’ I see a ‘Software Manager’ and a ‘Package Manager’. I don’t see an ‘Update Manager’. I type in the search field ‘Update Manager’ and an ‘Applications’ window pops up with an ‘Update Manager’ icon. I selected ‘Update Manager’ and ‘Install Updates’.

Package Files are downloaded. I reboot and the same ‘Fallback Mode’ error notice pops up.

I’m not too worried about it. Everything seems to run fine otherwise…

[AutoliteParticipant]

SilverOne wrote:

I am guessing you have an nVidia display adapter?

It seems that you are likely correct! Contrary to what I saw in the Windows Device Manager, the specs on the HP Pavilion 700 says that the Graphics Processor Driver is the “NVidea Geforce4 MX420”.

I’ve downloaded the “NVidea-Linux-x86-96.43.23-pkg1.run” driver file that supposedly supports the graphics processor on my machine.

Currently I’m getting a “cannot open the file” error code in Mint when I click on the file directly. When I use the ‘sh’ TERMINAL command for this file, I get a “can’t open” code.

I think I’ve now got the correct graphics driver file for my machine. I just have got to figure out how to install it…

[SilverOneParticipant 440]

You have to jump through a lot of hoops to install from the nVidia distribution package. Your best bet is to go to the Package Manger (Synaptic)and install the latest nVidia drivers. I think the latest is nvidia-375. That should take care of it. You may also have edit the blacklist file, blacklisting the nouveau driver. If needed I’ll tell you how to do that…. I know it all sounds complex, but believe me, once set up, it’s worth the trouble. It just works.

I don’t believe in female magic anymore. And will never again gut myself to make room for it. --Narwhal--

[AutoliteParticipant]

SilverOne wrote:

You have to jump through a lot of hoops to install from the nVidia distribution package. Your best bet is to go to the Package Manger (Synaptic)and install the latest nVidia drivers. I think the latest is nvidia-375. That should take care of it. You may also have edit the blacklist file, blacklisting the nouveau driver. If needed I’ll tell you how to do that…. I know it all sounds complex, but believe me, once set up, it’s worth the trouble. It just works.

Okay, thanks again for the help! The only thing that I’ve figured out so far is that it’s not a straight forward thing. I read online about other guys having the same trouble installing the same file.

Coming from working with Windows, I have now realized that I’m “not in Kansas any more”… 😀

[AutoliteParticipant]

SilverOne wrote:

I am a minimalist kind of guy, so I use the XFCE UI. As installed, it is very minimal, but it is imminently customizeable, light, and very fast.

It turns out the graphics issue I was dealing with on “Cinnamon” couldn’t be resolved with the old hardware on which is was installed.

I went onto the ‘LinuxMint,forum’ and they suggested that I dump “Cinnamon” for ‘Linux Xfce’ so that’s what I’ve gone and done.

I’ve now downloaded and installed ‘Linux Mint “Serena” Xfce 32bit’ on my old Hewlett Packard Pavilion 700. It’s runs fine with no crashes on start-up.

For anyone else wanting to experiment with Linux, know that for the older machines what will most likely work are ‘Linux Ubuntu 16.04.02 LTS 32bit’ or ‘Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” Xfce 32bit.

Thank you again SilverOne for your help and your expertise. It is most sincerely appreciated. I can’t tell you how happy I am to finally get this thing sorted out! It was definitely a learning experience… 😀

[SilverOneParticipant 440]

Autolite wrote:

It turns out the graphics issue I was dealing with on “Cinnamon” couldn’t be resolved with the old hardware on which is was installed.

I went onto the ‘LinuxMint,forum’ and they suggested that I dump “Cinnamon” for ‘Linux Xfce’ so that’s what I’ve gone and done.

That was pretty much what I found, and why I recommended XFCE to start with. I think you will like XFCE. It is ultimately configurable, and has a nice menu system. I was actually able to make my workspace into something that works exactly how I want it to, instead of having to adapt to someone else’s idea of what it should be like. I had hoped you could get Cinnamon to work. It is by far the easiest to transition from windows on. Good luck with it Mint, and if I can help, just shout, but it seems like you have found the forums, so you will never be short of help. Take care, my friend….

I don’t believe in female magic anymore. And will never again gut myself to make room for it. --Narwhal--

[AutoliteParticipant]

SilverOne wrote:

I had hoped you could get Cinnamon to work. It is by far the easiest to transition from windows on. Good luck with it Mint, and if I can help, just shout,

Okay, thanks again.

In any case I’ve still got the install disks for Mint 18.1 “Cinnamon” in both the 32bit and 64bit versions. I might install it some day on a better machine. I guess it just depends how well I learn a new OS and if I get comfortable using Linux…

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