Questions tagged [hardware]
General questions about hardware under Linux/Unix. Use a more specific tag if applicable.
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what log files in Linux to search for hardware errors
As an administrator what other log files, besides /var/log/messages, can you look through to see if there are any hardware errors or anomalies happening?
For example, you power on a Linux server at ...
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High CPU Usage and lag in LinuxMint: performance Issues and Solutions
I open some programs (maybe limited to games, or maybe the problem lies deeper) on my Linux Mint, and when I check their status using the top command in the terminal, I see that they completely use 3 ...
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Issue connecting my Bluetooth earphones. The device is found when in a live session (same distro)
I've been using Pop!_OS for a while and recently bought Bluetooth earphones. It's on desktop PC without an integrated Bluetooth. I bought a supposedly good Bluetooth dongle.
The Bluetooth recognizes ...
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How to prove that the eMMC on my single-board computers have a hardware defect?
Some of my single-board-computers (SBCs) are printing errors to the kernel log (dmesg) and most of the time show malfunctioning behaviour afterwards. On the same device some boots can be successful ...
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Bottom row of keys will not type, unless they are held down for a random(?) amount of seconds, to which they then work for a bit before regressing
System
$ uname -r
6.6.23-1-rt28-MANJARO
$ cat /etc/*release
Manjaro Linux
DISTRIB_ID="ManjaroLinux"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="24.0.0"
DISTRIB_CODENAME="Wynsdey"
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CPU running well under maximum frequency
I use my computer for very CPU intense simulations, but no matter what I do the actual CPU frequency wont ever come close to hardware capacity.
I have an i9-13900K, which maximum CPU freq. is 5.8GHz. ...
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file system on an emmc damaged by a power surge?
I'm running a Quartz64 (Model A) booting off an eMMC drive,
and it recently suffered a file system corruption
after a power outage due to a lightening strike.
After this, it wouldn't boot up. I had ...
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What is the difference between driver name and kernel module name for lshw?
Using lshw to query my WiFi USB adapter shows the following:
$ lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 12
bus info: usb@3:7
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Does Linux Log Unreadable/Unrecoverable Sectors from Drives?
Occasionally a drive sector is so corrupted that even the controller cannot fix it, and the data is lost. It may then be marked as a bad sector.
Does Linux make a log of such lost data in journald or ...
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OS detects less memory than BIOS
I have OpenBSD 7.5 installed on a Beelink SER5 MAX Mini PC. The product has 16 GiB memory, and the BIOS detects Total Memory: 16384 MB (DDR4). However, OpenBSD top only reports Memory: Real: 169M/...
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Fedora 39 - Is it hardware or software problems?
Quite often my system freezes. I've experienced two instances of this "freezing":
The first type is when all of a sudden the whole display freezes, the keyboard and mouse are still lit up ...
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Editors crashing with certain characters, programs crashing, how to diagnoze?
I'm having strange problems with my PC and don't know what to do. It all started with the fact that certain characters (Devanagari characters) could no longer be displayed in my Emacs. Whenever I ...
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Why do the lights of keyboard turn on after standby?
What causes the keyboard to stay turned on (or turn back on a few min later) after standby and how to make it turn off on Debian?
There are a few lights on my USB keyboard and for a long time after ...
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USB recognized in docking station when booting Windows - but not when booting Debian
I have a USB mouse and keyboard plugged in a Dell notebook which is connected to an I-Tec docking station. The docking station is connected to two monitors. In addition, two external USB harddisks are ...
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HDMI port not detected in CentOS 7
I purchased a new Lenovo ideapad 3, Core i7 decent laptop with Linux Mint. Had to backwards install Centos 7 to run an AWIPS weather program. Now the HDMI external port to run an external monitor ...
