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I'm trying to enable an external USB wireless adapter, but Network Settings are locked, and if to click on lock icon to unlock them, nothing happens. Can somebody say - what's up? The lock button supposed to open window where I can insert my password to unlock and change settings, as it used to be. ...

Many thanks, Maroman, for explaining to me things, I'm really happy you have a time and willingness to give me some hints, everything is really appreciated as I'm acting in this world more by intuition and even the most simple things can be new and useful for me, for example that I can find the same...

Thanks, guys, for hints, especially for tutorial, Maroman, I already started to read a pdf about linux, but this one seems good as well. btw, Maroman, if you can help me with some hints - how can I get my usb-sticks to work, they work in other computers, but this OS doesn't allow me to write on them...

hi maroman, thanks for hints, but i'm not such a professional (just lover and beginner) to understand everything you said, just happy that i found solution by myself, if you can explain - what is radeon card and how to detect probelm in kernel and how to fix it, i'd be happy. and other thing - is th...

Actually, at this case GRUB lines have to look like this:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`Point Linux`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Wow, I found solution for not working backlight control, if anybody has the same issue, here is the solution: At first I got the admin privileges, installing gedit: sudo apt-get install gedit Then followed steps suggested in forums: 1. sudo gedit /etc/default/grub 2. find the line starting with GRUB...

I forgot to mention that I use Point Linux 2.3.1 64bit version

Hi, How can I adjust brightness, it simply doesn't work, whatever I tried for it, no useful hints even from linux forums - they all suggest something that needs admin privileges to edit files, but this doesn't work either - no way to to edit files as a root. Please help, as I like this distro very m...

Hi,
I can't open files as administrator, no option in right-click and it seems there's not installed gedit, if to try to do it in terminal, it gives errors. Is it meant to use admin privileges in this OS at all, and if yes - how they work?