Can't burn disks.

Tried Brasero and Xfburn. Both appear to work.. No errors.. But there is no data on the disk. Still blank. Installed K3B. Locks up at end of burn process. Never gets to data verification process because the disk is still blank. It throws an error that the dusk in the drive is blank.

Linux Mint 15 XFCE 32bit

Wow..

After a bunch of different stuff happened, I now have Linux Mint 15 XFCE 32bit installed. I still have my brightness/volume OSD problem and my popping sound is back (even though pulse audio is already installed). So far, Mint Xfce is my favorite distro. Its not nearly as lite as LXDE/Lubuntu, but its still functional on my old dog machine with only 500MB RAM.

Xfce

I couldn't figure out how to fix my brightness and volume indicators. Decided to try Xfce instead of LXDE. Did a fresh install of Xubuntu. Didn't fix the problem, but so far I like Xfce better than LXDE.

Was going to install Fedora with Xfce but couldn't get it to install.

Popping sound fixed.

Installing pulse audio fixed my popping sound when running on battery.

On screen indicators update

EDIT-- 9 JAN 2014: this is definately a video/graphics driver issue. that exists for me on all distros and multiple kernels. I have better luck with old kernels like 3.2.X

Still no luck solving this issue. I tried installing different graphics drivers with the help of someone in the Linux Google+ community I joined, but that had no effect. Upgrading to Lubuntu 13.10 as I type this. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Fun Fact, dmidecode to view hardware

Fun Fact:

use "sudo dmidecode" to view your hardware information in the Terminal

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/command-to-check-hardware-135433/

Linux Google+ community

I joined a Linux Google+ community. Looks like there is a lot of good information there.



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https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109254488709825102030