06-24-2017, 10:09 PM
I'm as stumped as you are, gold_finger. Yes, I have tried all 3 methods of booting the laptop up. I thought maybe that was the hiccup too so went through the regular boot menu, the per session, and the Novo button. Not a bit of difference with any method.
Yes, I do have Mint 18.1 installed now. That's what I was explaining a few posts back. I had the thing in a real mess just a bit ago. I decided to try installing LXDE on it via the apt install command. For whatever reason LXDE wasn't showing up in the login screen as an option, so I installed LXDM to use instead of LightDM. It wouldn't work at all. I was suddenly faced with command line interface instead of that pleasant splash screen type login. So had to login, then startx. LXDE ran, but I couldn't get any Dm to load a GUI splash login. Finally managed to edit the right .conf files to get an autologin under her name. What a danged mess.
So it's running Mint 18.1 with LXDE right now. It's way too slow. Takes way too long to load up any app, and Firefox is a real joke now. I have info.com set as home page and it takes about 15 seconds for that page to load when you launch Firefox. I've really got to figure out how in the heck to get something to boot on it so I can wipe the hard drive and start fresh. I'm seriously considering removing the optical drive from this laptop and temporarily installing it on her laptop. At least I'd be able to boot to a DVD and get Linux Lite installed on it.
I'm sure open to any and all suggestions. I think my next move will be to locate a forum for Lenovo laptops and do some searching on it. If I can't find a solution I guess I can start the whole conversation on that forum.
Yes, I do have Mint 18.1 installed now. That's what I was explaining a few posts back. I had the thing in a real mess just a bit ago. I decided to try installing LXDE on it via the apt install command. For whatever reason LXDE wasn't showing up in the login screen as an option, so I installed LXDM to use instead of LightDM. It wouldn't work at all. I was suddenly faced with command line interface instead of that pleasant splash screen type login. So had to login, then startx. LXDE ran, but I couldn't get any Dm to load a GUI splash login. Finally managed to edit the right .conf files to get an autologin under her name. What a danged mess.
So it's running Mint 18.1 with LXDE right now. It's way too slow. Takes way too long to load up any app, and Firefox is a real joke now. I have info.com set as home page and it takes about 15 seconds for that page to load when you launch Firefox. I've really got to figure out how in the heck to get something to boot on it so I can wipe the hard drive and start fresh. I'm seriously considering removing the optical drive from this laptop and temporarily installing it on her laptop. At least I'd be able to boot to a DVD and get Linux Lite installed on it.
I'm sure open to any and all suggestions. I think my next move will be to locate a forum for Lenovo laptops and do some searching on it. If I can't find a solution I guess I can start the whole conversation on that forum.
Steve
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