02-25-2020, 10:05 PM
(02-25-2020, 09:20 PM)JordanGfx link Wrote: This is my first time using linux but im familiar with command prompt, tweaking code etc so trying all those steps wasnt tricky for me, just doesnt seem to play ball with this setup yet.
Can you run "inxi -Fxrz" and post the output here? (surrounded by code tags, the "#" button at the top of the editor). The "z" option will remove ip address, home-directory name, etc. When you say LL doesn't play well with your laptop, I'm curious what it is. (Others might recognize something.).
Hang in there. I've used a few distros. Linux Lite is up in my top 2-3 (I don't have a #1, they're all best in their own ways.). The mistake you made was probably messing around with the grub. I stay away from that. (If I could ever get my hands on whomever dreamed that up, I would land a series of repetitious blows about his head and shoulders.). If you get into it, it starts to make sense. But... you'd think something so basic wouldn't be so primitive. Sometimes I hit "e" to edit the grub commands (remove "nosplash quiet" and see what's happening). When I edit that, it's like 1990 all over again. 1200baud modem. Press an arrow key, what a second for the cursor to move. WTH? Stuff like that makes me believe we really do live in a simulation, and people outside our dimension are laughing at us.
Have you checked whether Dell has updates for your bios? If so, look at the release notes for every version above yours. If nothing about the brightness keys were affected, it might be better not to update just for the sake of updating. Sometimes you can "brick" your laptop.