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Submitted by braam on 29 November, 2011 - 22:16
For everyone that is trying to install or wants to install the latest edition of linux mint "lisa" on a dell m4500, you'll be in some trouble.
The live dvd boots really nice, but only the external monitor gets a signal! Very unpractical.
I've finally gotten it to work by tweaking the nvidia adapter. The trick is to press alt on the grub boot menu, the countdown. Then add the options nomodeset and vga=normal.
Now you can install and download drivers etc, maybe later improve the resolution ;-) Nice.
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After having installed mint, choosing the newest version of the nvidea driver fixes things. Just to clarify, it's not all that bad :)