Backlight on Dell G15 with Linux Mint
Problem Since I upgraded Linux Mint 21.1 Vera with kernel 6.8 on my Dell G15 5525, I encountered an issue: missing brightness control. Searching the Internet didn’t help much in resolving the problem, but fortunately, a long session with ChatGPT (GPT-4o, August 2025 release) led to significant progress. I’m sharing here a brief set of
Brightness keys in XFCE
This is on Dell G15 5525’s brightness keys in Linux Mint XFCE 21.1 Vera (kernel 5.x). The installation of the system was easy-peasy and most features worked out of box.The missing was proprietary Nvidia-drivers which resulted in a periodic warnings and ugly freezes. The thing easy to fix – e.g. via Software Center. Then I
VMware/VMPlayer: ‘Skipping BTF generation’ – error
Issue After the upgrade Mint 20.3 Una do 21.0 Vanessa VMware’s VMPlayer stopped working!Usuaully, after every update touching a kernel when I try VMPlayer I get the warnnig-window about necesary vmnet and vmmon modues update. But this time I couldn’t pass this step. user$ sudo vmplayer #run in “xterm” I found the error at the
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