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hwinfo replaced with ... what?

New and Hopefully more clear question this is NOT a question about some system information program I NEED to know what framebuffer modes I can add in grub configuration without starting to calculate stuff and testing 1000 command lines (therefore…
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Detect the angle of the hinge of Hp x360

Hp x360 Laptops have a "hinge screen". The screen can be opened and flipped till 360 degrees. I want to do some scripting with some commands that activate when the screen is flipped beyond a certain angle. How can I detect the angle? ...I'm…
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unity - how to detect if the screen is locked?

both of these only work after the screen that was locked gets blanked; but they sometimes fail also, when for any reason the screen doesnt blanks... gnome-screensaver-command --query gnome-screensaver-command --time I tried with qdbus also: qdbus…
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Ubuntu hangs on boot after blackout- Detect the available GPUs

Please help me, its my workstation. It worked fine until a power blackout. Since then it doesn't boot anymore. (two times it started to the login screen, but with ENTER or a mouse click he login screen dissappeared and the screen remained…
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Why is my mobile's headset not detected properly on my laptop's combined mic/headphone input?

I'm using an HP EliteBook 9470m. It has one single combined input jack for microphone and headphone. I get clear nice sound with headphones missing a microphone, i.e headphones with only a three contact jack as shown on the right in the picture…
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ubuntu 12.10 won't see my external hard drive

So here's the story: I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my acer aspire 7551 last night without a hitch. I have two hard drives from my now out-of-service desktop that was running windows 7 that I'm trying to copy and backup to the laptop so I can then…
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MAAS detected disks de1GB and Landscape detects nodes but with checklists(X)

My problem is that MAAS, with hard drives does not recognize your storage capacity, and continue with the installation checklist landscape in brand teams recognize but with a red X. Equipment features: maas: Install:…
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Cant get back to windows after uninstalling ubuntu

I have a surface pro 3 so I thought about dual booting it with Ubuntu, every thing went fine but I didn't like it because it had some bugs and I couldn't get the type cover to work so I decided to delete it. Secure boot is off and hibernation is…
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Timex Device Agent 3.0 does not detect Timex Run Trainer (USB)

I installed Device Agent and it is running with Wine. It lets me login to my account on TrainingPeaks (on the web) but I cannot upload anything since my Timer Run Trainer GPS is not detected by Timex Device Agent. Totally new to Ubuntu and Wine, I…
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Ubuntu 12.10 cannot detect windows 8 in uefi mode when installing

I've installed Windows 8 64 bit on UEFI . Now I want to install Ubuntu 12.10 on UEFI too. I used a usb flash drive to boot in UEFI mode and started install, but in "installation type" screen, it was unable to detect any os. I tried Ubuntu without…
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Browsers can't detect my webcam but it works in cheese

Suddenly, my webcam stopped working in my browsers even though it works if I run the cheese application in the terminal. I am testing it with this website (and many others) on Google Chrome (incognito mode and Firefox) and I get this error…
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Logitech mx master 2 not detected

I have a dual-boot system (Windows 10/Ubuntu). Recently I bought an MX Master 2 Bluetooth mouse. I tend to use it without a receiver. Now in Windows 10, I can pair it and it works perfectly but, Ubuntu doesn't even detect the mouse. However, Ubuntu…
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How to detect if computer is asleep

I am trying to find a way to query the state of my laptop from the terminal. I would like to know if it is asleep or awake. Is there a dbus query suitable for this?
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Ubuntu 16.04 not detecting HDMI

I'm a newbie. I've searched through forums and tried a bunch of solutions but nothing has worked. I installed the Intel graphics driver, latest version of nVidia, and updated my kernel. It's not the TV, the cord, or the connection. Any help would be…
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Trigger action on user login, logoff , or screen lock

I have several powerful desktop computers that I'd like to make use of when there's no user activity or when user isn't logged in. As such, I was wondering whether it was possible to detect user actions such as login, logoff and screen lock. At the…
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