Help screen blank

[Alexzee]

It's probably wayland or no help files installed.

Could it also be the nVidia driver that the kernel is using?

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Could it also be the nVidia driver that the kernel is using?

It could, I use these mandatory steps on KDE, but this is for KDE, don't know for Mint:

sudo cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset

If the output is N (meaning it's not running in modeset mode) then enable it:

echo options nvidia_drm modeset=1 | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia_drm.conf > /dev/null
sudo update-initramfs -u
systemctl reboot

NVIDIA driver is not older than version 495.44

nvidia-smi | grep "Driver Version"

Also worth reading:

Understanding nvidia-drm.modeset=1 (NVIDIA Linux driver modesetting)

Setting modeset=1 doesn’t actually install a framebuffer console. All it really does is enable the DRIVER_MODESET capability flag in the nvidia-drm devices so that DRM clients can use the various modesetting APIs. In addition to allowing clients that talk to the low-level DRM interface to work...

forums.developer.nvidia.com

Plasma/Wayland/Nvidia - KDE Community Wiki

community.kde.org

 

[IbChristian]

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No, I don't have any lighter versions of those images for a printer, sorry.
I could make them lighter and send them to you via a pm.
Would that help?
<snip!>

Thanks. If they weren't important to the tutorial I wouldn't bother. Unfortunately, they are.

 

[IbChristian]

I finally got Mate to install correctly, at least everything is working so far. The "help" screens are still blank, but after six attempts at installing two different versions, three each using three different boot utilities I'm figuring that it will never work, regardless. No biggie; after all, I got y'all, right?

 

[Alexzee]

Thanks. If they weren't important to the tutorial I wouldn't bother. Unfortunately, they are.

I've got contractors coming in the morning to do major renovation's, flooring and the like. I'll get back to you on this in 2-3 days.