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Windows 1809 and grub
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2018-12-20 19:03
I have a double boot Windows 10/Linux Debian and updating Windows to the october 2018 update (1809) made grub unable to start itself at the 3rd reboot (I think) of the update. It went straight to grub rescue with unknown filesystem type.
To solve this problem, you have to manually direct grub...
lightdm-gtk-greeter lost shutdown/reset button
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2017-12-27 10:33
It looks like in a recent update, lightdm (with the gtk interface, at least) lost some buttons for rebooting or shutting down the computer. Which is somewhat cumbersome, as one has to Ctrl-Alt-F1 his way to a console to actually do the shutdown manually.
This is described e.g. in the following bug...
Obtaining a 1680x1050 resolution on a Dell E228WFP with a nvidia "legacy" card on Debian GNU/Linux
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2009-04-10 12:08
The setup:- Dell E228WFP display able to do 1680x1050 resolution- Nvidia Quadro NVS 400 card- Debian Testing, with the nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx driver version 96.43.11The problem:The nvidia graphics driver is not able to detect the display abilities and it ends up with selecting the "nvidia-auto-...