i was about to send a screenshot, but i can’t reproduce it now. it freezes and stops responding to some or all input, and all the dock+appmenu icons are gone. its one of these or all symptoms, and i can usually reproduce it when coming back from sleep. logs say ‘broken pipe, error reading events from display’ i can update if it happens again.

I’m using the same generic ps2 driver for the touchpad. its an old alps glidepoint, i can get it to work perfectly with all features on windows 7 with the proper drivers, needless to say thats a bit unworkable.

on linux it works initially with multitouch scroll and everything, then gradually starts to behave like a wet touchscreen. ive tried different kernel versions, livebooted a couple different distros and tried a few very old solutions i found floating around, like using the synaptics driver for some reason. found it for cheap and replaced the hardware. nothing seems to do the trick.

edit: it did the thing, its usually functional enough for screenshots:

remind yourself its not worth it

yes, they do this kind of propaganda to young people since gen x. its all bullshit.

the kids are fine.

ok it worked! thanks a lot! can’t believe it was that easy. Gnome spazzes out a little bit after wake sometimes, is that something i can work around?

do you happen to know a thing or two about diagnosing trackpad issues? or at least the right direction? 😂

what kind of driver could the keyboard be using? lsmod shows nothing beyond the HID driver, but thats being used by the external mouse which works normally after sleep.

lshw shows it going by /dev/input/event6 or something like it?

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you do end up “figuring out” whatever rocket science or advanced quantum entanglement you needed for the project, but you never finish it.

yes do it.

depending on what you get for a wifi card, you might want to virtualize some flavor of linux like openwrt to run the wifi.

bsd (opnsense, pfsense) is notoriously bad for wifi support.

the biggest challenge here is selecting the right wifi hardware imo.

the maga crowd has diesel truck attached to their very masculinity, thats never happening.

the “floater friend”

i’m not mad.

you seem to be.

subscriptions for games! thats exactly what i wanted!

you pay a monthly fee for videogames just so you can not play them?

the best time to switch to linux is a few years ago.

the second best time is now.

is it just me or these look a bit arbitrary

and id love to understand the logic behind whats inside /home cause it seems way too chaotic to me

how do i do 1? having timeout to suspend and lid close to suspend would be great. and id like to see some example scripts!

i had pretty much given up on standby with this one.

yes, i’m on ubuntu, using all the default drivers.

and i would guess its finnicky because its an old laptop.

is it a matter of scripting rmmod and modprobe to run on suspend/wake?

how do you deal with kb+trackpad not working after wake?

sudo apt -y purge arch

am i doing this right?

juicy new controversy with ltt?