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|    Alan Ianson to Aaron Thomas    |
|    Re: Mint 20 "Ulyana"    |
|    20 Jul 20 11:48:36    |
      CHRS: UTF-8 4       MSGID: 1:153/757@fidonet 5f08f647       REPLY: 1:229/426 013825E7       PID: MBSE-BBS 1.0.7.17 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)       TZUTC: -0700       TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.7.17 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)       Aaron Thomas wrote to All:              AT> I upgraded to Mint 20 "Ulyana" without hesitating. I thought it would be        AT> great, but shortly afterwards I noticed my CD/DVD ROM was no longer        AT> working, and neither was my sound card.              I need to load the sg module lately to access the CD/DVD, I'm not sure why       or what changed.              Run (as root)..              modprobe sg              AT> On a fresh install, Mint has a bunch of quirks that I always needed to        AT> hammer out. But not Ubuntu - it's smooth as can be.              Yep, that's true. On Ubuntu you may not even need to "modprobe sg", it might       be smart enough to just do that.               Ttyl :-),        Al              ... It is broke. It will not work. It does not go.              --- MBSE BBS v1.0.7.17 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)        * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 57/0 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 153/757 203/0 220/70       SEEN-BY: 221/0 226/17 30 227/114 702 229/424 426 616 664 1014 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 240/5853 249/206 317 400 261/38 267/800 280/464 288/100 292/8125       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 340/1000 342/200 396/45 633/280 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/0 1 100 772/0 1 220 230 500       PATH: 153/757 770/1 712/848 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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