So my monitor stopped working,
when I was messing around with the the rotation
(ie xrander -o [ normal, left, right, inverted ] stuff).
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The monitor input is DVI (DVI-D Dual Link),
and the laptop's output port is HDMI,
so they're connected with an adapter.
)
All (I think) of the...
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First of all, I'm not completely sure what the official terms are.
I think it's "suspend"/"resume",
with "sleep"/"wake" being synonyms
(and I'm not sure if there are any other common synonyms).
And there's other, related-but-different stuff, namely "hibernate",
which is much more rarely used...
I have an SSD that another laptop was booting from (before the other hardware in that laptop failed)
and now I'm using it as an external USB drive (with one of those little SATA enclosure shell adapter things).
However, yesterday when I had it mounted,
I noticed my firefox bizarrely lagging and...
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I just posted this to the gentoo forums
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8795977.html#8795977
Not sure when/if I'll get an answer there,
and not sure if anyone here is likely to know any helpful details on this...
But I figured I should just go ahead and post a copy here anyway,
just in...
So I just accidentally bumped and and unplugged the cable on an external USB harddrive.
- There was no activity at the time.
- It's btrfs (one big partition the whole drive, about 2TB... (I think it's spinning rust, not an SSD -- I dunno, it's just something I had in my box of random old...