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How to get started writing drivers?
I have a throw-away cheap laptop I'd like to twiddle around, a Thinkpad SL 500.
What bothers me are two leds, the one for wireless connectivity, and the one for hibernation, which don't light up at ...
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Do I have to list modules in both `/etc/mkinitcpio.conf` and `/etc/rc.conf`?
I've added few modules into mkinitcpio.conf.
Are they automatically loaded at kernel boot or with udev if I don't specify them in modules list in rc.conf?
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Problem at boot-time: “Loading user-defined modules [FAIL]”
After I updated my Kernel to version 3.0, i always get this line when my Arch-Linux system is booting up:
Loading User-specified Modules [BUSY] [FAIL]
I have no idea what could cause this to ...
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How to add boot parameters in arch linux
I want to add i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 as a kernel line as described here but I'm unsure where/how exactly.
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Can't install driver in Arch
I'm using Arch Linux, kernel 3.5.3 on a MacBook. I'm trying to get the keyboard backlight working. I found the driver in the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25467, but I'm having trouble ...
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Wireless not showing a network in the scan results
I have a weird problem of connecting to a wireless network. I am connecting to a network named "C-202" with WPA-Personal. This network shows up in the scan results some time and won't show some time. ...
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Arch Linux not functional after kernel upate [duplicate]
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Arch Linux not booting after system update
After running a system update, in which the kernel was updated, when I try to boot Arch (in single user, not quiet), I get the ...
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Why do I get this error installing virtualbox-4.1 on Arch?
I'm trying to install Virtualbox 4.1 from the .run file since Pacman had the 4.0 version only. But when I try installing the file using sh filelocation/filename.run, it gives me the following error-
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Occasionally kernel panics during boot since 3.3.x with Sandy Bridge
Since kernel 3.3.x there are frequent kernel panics during the boot process. It seems to be a kernel problem since I downgraded to 3.0 and the problems are gone.
The kernel panics happen almost at ...
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Is there any X windows system, which is HTML, CSS, Javascript? Such as Web Browser?
For dacades X windows system is either BASH, C or etc. But is there any X windows system or any wrapper which can interpret HTML, CSS, Javascript to general Windows system?
I would like to build ...
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how to gpio interrupt registering/handling and accessing them from user space in linux [closed]
I am newbie for the linux device drivers please guide me how to do this..
suppose I have connected a switch to one of the controller pin and whenever the switched is press the LED connected to other ...
