I have some problems in controlling my laptop’s brightness on Linux Mint 13. My laptop’s specification is found on this page. Just a summary I am using NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 2GB Dedicated VRAM. Here are the steps I followed to get control on my laptop’s brightness. Open the terminal Edit grub (sudo nano /etc/default/grub), Around the 11th line, there will be something like: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”. Change it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor” Save the file Update your grub (sudo update-grub2)

image taken www.nightlion.net Chromium, google’s browser is one of the fastest browser.  Since I started using chrome, I have a hard time going back to firefox which is  the default browser for Backtrack 5.  Though firefox is also nice to use but when it comes to speed chromium goes first for me. After searching on the net how to install it on backtrack 5.  I was directed to this forum, then I downloaded the file and tried chromium 64bit, it finally

I am now a full Linux user and the distro I used is Ubuntu version 10.10.  Maybe most of my posts will be ubuntu tweaks and php also.   One of the useful tools I frequently use when I was on windows 7 is Photoshop.  Installing it without tweaking wine will not work.  Thanks to the post of Jun Auza where I got most of the ideas.  To start with I am using ubuntu 10.10 with wine version 1.2 the latest