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I have a laptop that my late father bought for us. Today, after owning it for about 6-7 years, it won’t turn on. Or rather, it turns on, and after 15 seconds, it turns off. The screen never comes on in that time. Even though I worked in IT for […]

I’ve got a fairly old PS/2 keyboard with 125 keys, of which some only emit scancodes, which are not tied to any keycodes. Now I’d like to start setkeycodes as a systemd service to assign keycodes to these “problematic” keys. Running evtest, however, shows me some strange keycodes, which do […]

I have an older Dell Inspiron windows 8.1 laptop that I do not mind taking apart, but after starting the laptop up I attempted to boot in the F12 boot options. The computer will display that the BIOS has fully loaded but it never opens, waited 12+ HOURS for the […]

Here is a terminal output: paul@cube:~$ find / libhwinfo_cpu.so ... find: ‘libhwinfo_cpu.so’: No such file or directory paul@cube:~$ sudo find / -name libhwinfo_cpu.so find: ‘/run/user/1000/doc’: Permission denied find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied /home/paul/hwinfo/build/lib/libhwinfo_cpu.so Why the first invocation of find claims that libhwinfo_cpu.so doesn’t exist?

I have an weird disconnect between acpi_listen and journalctl -u acpid: When I run the former and close, then open my laptops lid, I get the following output: button/lid LID close button/lid LID open However, the acpid log shows absolutely no activity. This is an issue for be because I […]

I was wondering if there is a way to get the “root” user to appear on the CentOS 8 GUI login page, and if so, how to configure that?