Category Archives: system

Wacom input drivers

Posted on 2020-11-05 by

I bought a Wacom Intuos CTL-4100, since I need to draw some schemes during online meetings and I am really bad with the mouse. I installed libwacom and xournalpp from SBo.  Everything works as it should on Slackware -current, however … Continue reading →

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LILO and nvme

Posted on 2020-10-31 by

I recently upgraded to a 1 TB NVME drive and I have Windows 10 on it. The computer boots by default from another disk, a standard SSD, where Slackware -current is installed with LILO. The problem is that selecting Windows … Continue reading →

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Automatically reconnect sshfs

Posted on 2020-06-10 by

I’ve been using sshfs to mount a remote folder between computers in my home networks. Sometimes I switch from WiFi to wired connection or the other way around. This causes Thunar to freeze, if I had forgotten to unmount the … Continue reading →

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Copying MBR

Posted on 2020-04-30 by

I’ve been doing some disk partitions cloning between disks of different size. I needed to copy the master boot record (MBR), where LILO is, from one disk to another. I searched a bit and found a handy tutorial.

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Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 not responding

Posted on 2020-03-29 by

I have a ThinkPad T420, which comes with an Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 wireless adapter. The card is recognised out of the box, and it connects to my home WiFi. There are two kernel modules loaded: iwlmvm and iwlwifi. … Continue reading →

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