Own a small lawn service and am a student in the US, studying software engineering(computer science). I've been using Unix and FreeBSD since 1999, so the new flavours of Linux are a new world to me. Hopefully using other people's distributions can give me some knowledge into how to design useful ...

I've been customizing my Salix OS core install for a few days now and am quite pleased with the performance and stability on my laptop. I'm just looking for two starting points and/or tips.

The first, does anyone have any recommendations on a useful power-manager for my laptop? I get pretty good ...

In case anyone reads this, after hours of learning more about Operating Systems I traced my problems through ridiculous amounts of text.

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf is your target file to start with..
through trial and error/ and finding a few to disable here... blacklist these:

blacklist ...

Thanks for the reply Rich. I actually went this route a couple of hours ago and am still experiencing heavy turbulence. This is my first time using a driver from Nvidia, so I knew I wouldn't have a smooth ride. I've managed to successfully install the driver after blacklisting Nouveau, but now i'm ...

As I've found out, I was just hoping the live-CD was indication of something just going quirky since everything was running flawlessly. Now that i've confirmed that everything refuses to work for both as expected, i'll be certain to make this the last laptop purchase until there is a reasonable way ...

I'm getting the feeling you're correct. After hours of headaches I may have to give up and try the 32bit version just to see if it works out. Did the Nvidia driver resolve your problem? I know in the Linux world that rarely means anything, but a vote for confidence in that direction and i'll give it ...

I have an Aspire laptop with i5 and a Nvidia GT 420M that i'm trying to get up and running. I'm having a weird issue with the video though as it's a jumbled mess. As far as I can find so far X11 takes it's turn and the desktop turns into a mess of colors. I can back out into root and take a look ...