Quoting: GuestWhat fixed it for me was I uninstalled the nvidia drivers (and purged them) then installed the newer kernel (I was on 4.4.0-53) to 4.4.0-77.

This time around installed the 381.22 driver (again from PPA/mint driver manager) and when I rebooted everything was fine.

So moral of the story, seems if you update your nvidia driver and get the black desktop with mouse cursor and nothing else, try updating your kernel and reinstalling the driver.

For me X would not start at all, so my problem was not the same as yours. But as I said, the fix was quick and easy. I'm running kernel 4.10 by the way.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestGreat, the new 381.22 driver borked my x server (installed it via 18.1 Mint's driver manager too).

*sigh*

I don't have time for this, gotta mess around with it when I get home from work tonight. Basically after updating, I log in via the usual login screen and it goes straight to a black desktop with only a visible mouse cursor.

Gonna try reverting to 375.xx

I had to run sudo nvidia-xconfig to fix this. I guess we can't blame Mint if an unsupported Ubuntu PPA package causes problems. It's not likely they're tested on Mint at all.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Looks like a fun selection of games. And I do want to see you fail at play Dirt Rally on stream, thanks for asking!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: liamdaweGuys, keep it in English please.

Sorry. ;)
I explained what I meant with my previous English comment.
An EU law prohibits from removing a software licence when you bought (or got gifted) software, be it digital or on disc (if it has not been explicitly only been rented).

Corporations seem to have a hard time accepting that they can't just override laws willy-nilly with their idiotic EULAs.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: RussianNeuroMancerI forgot something or there is no way to include more PC, if there is few?

Nope. And that's on purpose. This is what it says near the top of the form:

This is for your MAIN gaming computer.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GuestThat would need (very roughly) 50 people working together full time for 3 years. This will not happen as a hobby project.

How about 500 working in spare time?

Keep 500 spare-time (but professional level) artists and coders motivated and focused on a single creative goal for the duration of a major project and I shall bestow upon you the title of supreme cat herder.

There are no technical roadblocks but many social ones.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: ZeloxDo we need wine for this ?

No.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Thanks for this very comprehensive review Samsai.

Quoting: buenaventuraI liked Undertale alot, it was really funny and moving, and surprising! I just wanted to contribute that you can use qjoypad (available in ubuntu repos, and probably elsewhere) to map the keyboard buttons to your gamepad (works with my SNES-like one). Useful software!

Antimicro is another popular choice for this task and the one I prefer.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: HoriPlease compare it with Windows. It would be incredibly useful.

Why would it be useful?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Adding all the driver/mesa PPAs at the same time doesn't seem like a safe thing to do. If you did this anyway, you should use ppa-purge to remove all but one of them. I recommend leaving either the ubuntu-x-swat one or padoka's stable PPA.

View this comment - View article - View full comments