It will be easier to deal with one graphics card than two. And your welcome for the battery link. My Thinkpads I own neither of them Lenovo makes batteries for now. My newest model is t460s and it has to internal batteries which I got new ones on amazon.

The 10 year old one I got battery from a battery site online they however did not have yours. Like Lenovo I suspect gateway stopped battery production years ago for older models.


I have a question when you created this below did you remove it once it failed? If not I would remove it. On the link I gave you on post 2. once you remove the below. I would try Method 1.

I never installed method 3 as I couldn't follow the instructions. I don't appear to have a file called xorg.conf.d in the X11 folder.

On method 1, I typed
but it didn't say anything when I did it, so I didn't go any further. I didn't understand if that was an error?

First of all that's a directory, secondly I'm pretty sure that should be /etc/X11.
Don't mess around in /usr/share.

This is what I have (unless I'm looking in the wrong place?)

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This is what I have:
(But I can see that Debian-based distros look more like yours)

Thanks for replying. I'm sorry but I understand not one word of that.

I can navigate around in a window, but anything else I follow blindly what people say.
I really don't understand what it is or what is does.

Are you saying I need to paste those three lines into terminal for example?

What did you use to install linux mint DVD or USB stick?. I am wondering now that only one graphics card is active now would like to see if the dim issue happens on the live edition. I can see that you have issues with understanding the editing process. I am not Judging I still do myself. meanwhile I will be asking the mint forum how to fix this if needed. I think some of the solutions are old on the sites I been reading. I will explain in more detail how to edit a config file if we need to.

The ls -l /etc/x11
those letters and dashes are permissions for those files. mainly who has the rights to edit them. Most config files fall under the root.

Learning is fun...this is why we use sudo to edit a file like a config file.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/permissions-in-linux/

Here is a guide on how to edit a config file which I think will help you any questions feel free to ask.

https://vitux.com/how-to-edit-config-files-in-ubuntu/

I used a USB stick - for both v20.3 a couple of weeks ago and v18.3 about six years ago.

Thanks for your help about the editing.

What worries me is if I screw it and Mint won't boot up, or the display ends up being screwed up, then I'd have no idea how to do anything, or ask, as I've now deleted Windows, so I only have Mint to use to access the forum.

I tried
but it came back with this:

Check

What does this have for settings on the brightness? If any dim setting is active disable it

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