Mint12 is a joke

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kontact

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Decided to install alongside Windows and reboot PC and it loads Grub with no option to boot Win7, just Mint > stops loading at the end of HDD detection. Reboot again and select ACPI workaround, loads fine and autoupdates. Reboot, now see both Win7 and Linux as boot option,select Linux and get Grub menu with only 2 options, Mint generic and Mint generic safe mode, no acpi workaround offered. Both boot options fail with a black screen requiring a hard reset. Boot into Windows and uninstall Mint. Done! :p
 
Mint 12 64-bit seems to detect all my HP Tablet PC's hardware fine, besides the restricted driver for Broadcom wireless which took a few minutes to install, and I haven't had any problems with it so far. I can't say I love the default desktop, but things work as expected.

If you were just looking to complain, then yes, probably no one cares. :p Or maybe no one else in that 6 hour period who read your title/thread feels the same way.
 
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pxc said:
Mint 12 64-bit seems to detect all my HP Tablet PC's hardware fine, besides the restricted driver for Broadcom wireless which took a few minutes to install, and I haven't had any problems with it so far.
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I will try it on another PC but it doesn't work fine on my main PC and is a cluster fuck.
 
kontact said:
I will try it on another PC but it doesn't work fine on my main PC and is a cluster fuck.
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Maybe it's your main PC that is a cluster fuck due to shitty motherboard components that no one wants to support.

Try Xubuntu 12.04 beta or something. It may just be kernel drivers for a particular component.

If it's booting to black screen there's probably a bunch of garbage in your Xorg log about why your computer is bad.
 
InternationalHat said:
Maybe it's your main PC that is a cluster fuck due to shitty motherboard components that no one wants to support.
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I LOL'd, but that's why many people think peer Linux support is so awful.

Yeah, some piece of hardware is likely causing the system to hang. It shouldn't though, and the fault is not the user or (usually) the hardware. Blame where it is deserved, whether you're a Mint fan or not. The problem can be fixed if someone is willing to narrow it down and file a bug report to the appropriate vendor (distro, mobo manufacturer, etc).
 
I tried it on another PC without ACPI enabled and it ran fine.

"Appended "acpi=off" at the end of the Kernel line in grub.conf"

And you expect me to know how to do that when I am staring at a black screen? Once something annoys me I just trash it.
 
kontact said:
And you expect me to know how to do that when I am staring at a black screen? Once something annoys me I just trash it.
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Not at all. :)

If you try Mint sometime later in your life, and face this problem again. Reset and do this from the bootloader menu: :)

http://i.imgur.com/CSRQL.jpg (Press E for Editing)
http://i.imgur.com/FaK7S.jpg (Down arrow key to go to the Kernel line)
http://i.imgur.com/bMOhh.jpg (and press E for Editing this line)
http://i.imgur.com/lm5ET.jpg (this is the Kernel line)
http://i.imgur.com/4rXF8.jpg (add "acpi=off" at the end. Press Enter and then press B to boot)
 
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I'm not new to Mint and have had two previous versions installed in the past. This is the first version that gave me an issue though, except for that time Mint10 messed up one of my partitions and I ended up with an extra 100mb partition, exact same thing happened to a friend who installed it too. Thanks for the tip and have saved to a txt file but it would be much better if Mint had ACPI compatibility.
 
Hmm .. I have Mint12 running on an older BTX s775 setup to play with .. it didn't want to reboot after initial install and so I did a hard restart .. it's been fine since though
 
ThreeDee said:
Hmm .. I have Mint12 running on an older BTX s775 setup to play with .. it didn't want to reboot after initial install and so I did a hard restart .. it's been fine since though
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Exactly what happened to me on a 775 system as well.
 
Sorry it didn't install correctly for you, but that doesn't mean it's a joke dude. If people had that mentality open source software would progress rather slowly.
 
Since I can't game on it anyway, I run all of my Linux machines in VirtualBox. No issues with hardware whatsoever.
 
I'm using Linux Mint 12 64-bit alongside Win 7 32-bit on my laptop (that I'm posting on right now) and dual booted on my desktop PC alongside Win 7 64-bit.

I've had no issues with booting into either OS. The desktop took a bit more finessing since I needed to use EasyBCD to get Linux to show up in the boot menu. Other than that, it's been pretty smooth so far.
 
I'm running Linux Mint 12 currently and no issues on my netbook. I've read others have had issues but none for me.
 
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