Questions tagged [hardware]
General questions about hardware under Linux/Unix. Use a more specific tag if applicable.
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"structure needs cleaning", hardware failure?
The drive that my /home folder lives on is showing signs of failing,
and I'm trying to migrate to a new drive.
I purchased a 4TB SSD, formatted it with ext4, mounted it as an external drive with a ...
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Keyboard no exist `¬´
Some time ago, my Linux computer stopped recognizing the keyboard.
No matter what type of keyboard (PCI, USB), it just doesn't work.
But in those same ports other peripherals do work (Mouse, Pendrive, ...
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LG Gram: writing to /sys/class/leds/input3::capslock/brightness doesn't do anything
Usually on Linux you can turn your LEDs on and off by writing an ASCII number to /sys/class/leds/*/brightness, where * depends on the LED. The caps lock key on my LG Gram has an LED, but I can't turn ...
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Hard drive issue on Linux
I'v recently bought some old hard drives from a company that barely used them and wanted to use them to create a RAID 1 array. When I connect them to my linux desktop it doesn't reconise the drives at ...
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list available PCIe slots in my laptop
I want to add a second Graphic card to my laptop but I want to know if there is any PCIe slot available without having to open it.
Does it have any command I can run to get this info?
lspci lists a ...
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unreadable SD card repairing - possible?
Does it possible to mount and refresh broken SD card?
i had SD card, which doesn't readable by the system.
It was happened while testing process, i had write to card files 1GB value, and after about ...
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Why is blkdiscard not erasing all data of the whole drive?
I have an old mSATA SSD (model name: Plextor PX-128M6M), which is installed to an mSATA-to-USB enclosure with ASM1153E controller.
I want to (just logically, at the SSD controller level) erase all of ...
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Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 5
This appears in my Dell XR12. I am using an Intel ACC100 (PDF download) acceleration card . But I dont understand the error. What is happening here? Any help is appreciated!
[Thu Sep 7 08:43:27 2023] ...
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Why are serial ports losing bytes after Linux upgrade?
I have an embedded Linux system built using Yocto. Recently I upgraded from Dunfell (kernel 5.4) to Kirkstone (kernel 5.15) and I started having problems with the serial port. Large chunks of bytes ...
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How can I troubleshoot OS sluggishness?
I have a Dell G5 5590 (more specs listed below) which originally had Windows (10, I believe) installed on it.
I have tried to install multiple versions of linux OS (one at a time - no dual boot at all)...
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Moving hard disk from one laptop to the other: how to update OS drivers?
I have moved a hard disk containing openSUSE Leap 15.5 from one laptop to the other. The two laptops are from two different manufacturers.
The OS runs fine on the new laptop. But there are some ...
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DELL R730XD 256GB memory but just showed 251GB on linux with command `free -h` and `htop` , why?
A DELL R730XD server with 32GiB * 8, totaling 256GB of memory, is correctly recognized as 256GB in the BIOS. When checking the memory information using "dmidecode -t memory" in Linux, the ...
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What hardware problem does a video signal shift on hard lock imply?
I'm running a pfsense router on a PC architecture desktop system (AMD FX-8120 CPU with 16GB RAM). It's running version pfsense version 2.7.0, which is based on FreeBSD v14.
Every day or two the router ...
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Do I have to buy old hardware if I want to use an old Linux Kernel?
I don't currently have access to a computer to boot my ssd and add drivers before trying new hardware. I want to buy a new mini pc with a processor released this year but my OS is rhel 8.6 and I'm ...
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Are Intel or AMD processors generally regarded as "better" for Linux [closed]
Are there any differences between Intel and AMD processors in how Linux runs? Specifically in terms of performance, optimizations, and driver support?
To simplify things, I am just talking about the ...
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My Thunderbolt4 port is not working, how to verify that this is a hardware or OS problem?
I am using Fedora 38 on Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4. Kernel version is 6.3.11. It seems that my Thunderbolt 4 ports are powered on, but whatever I plug to them I get no output. Is there any way to verify ...
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Diagnosing unwriteable HDD
I am currently dealing with an HDD, which I cannot write to, but I do not understand the reason for it. Here is what I have observed about the problem:
Running a read-only benchmark works fine; read ...
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How to know which device are broken?
Other than plugging out one by one, I got spammed periodically something like this (every 5 minutes or so) on dmesg -w :
[766815.453149] usb usb4-port4: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
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Configure Ofono with SIM800C device
I'm trying (as a complete newbie) to use ofono to manipulate my SIMCOM 800C device. I've compiled it from source and configured all the necessary services (D-bus and udev). The udev rule from the doc ...
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Disk size is variable
I was flashing a new operating system to a device, but after the process was complete, I couldn't boot into it. I then checked the disk, and I noticed something strange.
Different tools report ...
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Command to know if electricity went down? or to trigger an action when power electricity went out?
I have an old laptop where the battery passed away - because is not possible buy a new or certificated compatible battery, it because the model is about 10 years ago - therefore when the power ...
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Controlling fan speed and temperature on 2011 iMac running Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Hardware Apple Inc. iMac12,1
I have been trying to cool this machine down as it had burnt its power supply couple times before and its running really warm. I was able to manually control fans in Ubuntu for a long time, but lately ...
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Is it possible to improve the speed of calculating cryptographic commands like sha256 in U-Boot?
I tried counting sha256 from the same memory area in U-Boot and on Linux on the same development board (sama5d27-som-ek). The time taken to perform the same operation in U-Boot is almost double. I ...
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How do I solve this FPS steep frame rate drop when gaming on Linux Mint?
Relevant specs from neofetch:
OS = Linux Mint 21.1 x86_64 /
Host = H310M H 2.0 /
Kernel = 5.15.0-72-generic /
DE = Xfce 4.16 /
CPU = Intel i5-8400 (6) @ 4.000GHz /
GPU = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti /
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Where does the ACPI battery information come from?
Using the ACPI interface, one can obtain information on battery life.
Where does this info come from?
Is there a chip that computes capability by integrating current over the power supply plug?
Is ...
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Is there a Linux command that can indicate if the mobo is functional to charge a battery or not?
I have a Toshiba Satellite L845-SP4146KL - it currently has Linux Ubuntu 22.04 installed.
The original battery passed away, I tried to buy a compatible/equivalent battery - but it is not certified. ...
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Linux UTM VM Hardware Clock is Incorrect
My machine natively runs MacOS Ventura 13.3.1. I am using UTM to run 5.14.8-arch1-1. I am on PST. The output of sudo hwclock --verbose is as follows:
hwclock from util-linux 2.37.2
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Hardware clock ...
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Is there a way for accurate timekeeping on Linux/Debian without NTP/Internet?
The only way I could get a working clock on Debian is by using NTP to sync the clock as described here.
Is there a way to have a reliably accurate clock without NTP and without any Internet connection?...
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How to find monitor model and related information in linux? [duplicate]
I want to correct my color profile, so I need to find my monitor model so that I can download the correct ICC (or ICM) file. Is there a way to find out the monitor model in Linux?
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How do i display devices of a certain device class with lspci?
I need to obtain information related to Ethernet Controllers in the system using lspci. So it`s a hardware class [0200].
But when i try lspci -nn -d \*:*:0200, i get this and it's not just Ethernet ...
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Weird resource allocation problem - Thunderbolt3/Wifi/External devices - where to start troubleshooting?
Here the summary of the system and the problem
I have a laptop connected via Thunderbolt3 to a docking station. The dock serves two displays and other devices such as Ethernet, USB audio etc.
What ...
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Middle mouse button not working on Debian 11 stable
I've been using Debian 11 Bullseye Stable for about a year now, and I just noticed that my middle mouse click isn't working. I only discovered this by playing a game where the middle-mouse click is ...
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Hardware ( motherboards, specifically ) compatibility with Linux
Note: I thought about it and really felt like it belongs here. It's not about hardware, such as it is about Linux drivers/compatibility. Am I wrong?
I'm not new to Linux - but I mostly administered ...
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activating LV 'pve/data' failed: Check of pool pve/data failed (status:1). Manual repair required! (500)
Good afternoon, I'm asking for help in recovering damaged metadata after a 220V drop on the server, when the power was restored and the server booted up, I got an error in the Proxmox panel
activating ...
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How to write custom attributes (ATTRS{attribute_name} to a USB-Device?
I have 2 identical devices which I want to differentiate using udev rules.
However, after executing the following for the devices, I have found out that the Serial Number is missing from the given ...
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How to figure out if CPU or GPU has been damaged by a thermal spike on Fedora
I have bought a new Asus Rog Strix laptop, and I ran on it Windows for a month without any issue. After I changed OS and putted Fedora 37 on it. My laptop has an NVidia 3060 with 6 GB (and a Ryzen 7 ...
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PAPI doesn't have available events on Ubuntu even though perf seems to be working properly
I'm trying to install PAPI on my machine:
$ uname -a
Linux XXXXXX 5.19.0-35-generic #36~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Feb 17 15:17:25 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and it does not ...
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Check if computer have a CDROM?
ALL,
In the past there was a standard to have a floppy drive on the computer.
Now even CD-ROM is optional.
Is there a way to find out if the device is present on the machine? Not mounted, not the disk ...
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How to print hardware models for humans
Occasionally I want to check what exact model of hardware component I am using. I don't really care about extreme detail things like what brand of capacitor they used on the Motherboard in position ...
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intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS , no sound on Debian 110.0 bullseye
i have installed Debian 11.0 bullseye and the sound is not working
the speaker and microphone are not detected
my sound card is Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS
kernel details
uname -a
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Error while booting with new ssd
My laptop was dropped and I replaced the ssd. I decided to install mint. When the installation is completed and I try to boot I get these errors:
E 606.3429921 SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, ...
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Unable to install Fedora Linux 37 in an old Dell Vostro
I installed a new SSD in a Dell Vostro Notebook and want to install Fedora 37 on that machine. I wrote Fedora 37 ISO image on a USB stick, and as I try to boot, I got this error:
PXE-E61: Media test ...
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How to check why do I get a high fan speed?
Previously I had a 128GB NVME Samsung SSD memory on my laptop. I installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on it and everything was great. Then I decided to improve the SSD memory to a 2TB PCI4-3500mhz NVME ...
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Disable PCI sound card with udev
GP104 High Definition Audio Controller which seems to be internal sound card in NVidia GeForce GTX 1070 which uses HDMI. It keeps popping up in various applications and sometimes messing with audio ...
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Conflict between linux kernel and nvme drives. Faulty power saving mode enabled? ("nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off" didn't help)
I have two barely identical servers. Both with:
BIOSTAR GTA690 motherboard
Intel CPU
Same amount of RAM & disk layout
PVE distribution (debian based hypervisor). Kernel 5.19.17-1-pve.
I have ...
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Is there a way to tell what physical machine a Linux program is running in?
I want to be able to detect the specific model of server from a running program (I.e a Dell vostro 470).
Is there a robust method to determine this from a running program in Linux?
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Isolating I/O issue with NVME or hardware?
Hardware:
Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD (MZ-V8P2T0BW) (2TB)
Beelink GTR6, with the SSD in the NVMe slot
Since the hardware arrived, I've installed Ubuntu Server on it as well as a bunch of services (...
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The aer-inject seems can't simulate acs violation
https://github.com/jderrick/aer-inject
There are some examples but didn't see acs in example or in source code.
https://github.com/jderrick/aer-inject/tree/master/examples
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Is there any way to ...
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Figuring out which PC component is failing on a linux box
Lately I've been experiencing random lockups into black screens during usage. The blackscreening is preceded by about half a minute of every program suspiciously hanging. To confirm that it isn't just ...
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Inconsistent results in CPU benchmarking with Hardinfo: Is the tool outdated and are there better alternatives for Linux users?
This program is the only CPU benchmarking application on Linux that works for ordinary users. After testing it, I wonder if it is relevant because I compared the results between two ways to execute ...
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