libera/#devuan/ Thursday, 2025-01-23

amarsh04gnarface, did you see that I found that package "powertop" had been disabling my mouse LED?05:30
gnarfaceamarsh04: yea, i caught that, sorry i didn't reply. it's always those forgotten customizations that get ya...05:41
gnarfacestill, it's good to hear that this apparently works now05:41
gnarfacegood job05:41
gnarfaceit is only of academic value to me but it might help others in the future, since mistakenly thinking you bought a 32-bit chip just because you were naive enough to believe the manufacturer's packaging05:43
amarsh04powertop powered down the LED in the mouse, but other software continued to detect the mouse05:43
gnarface(i predict an eventual wave of conversions/unnecessary reinstalls by core2duo owners)05:43
amarsh04the old Pentium 4 (Prescott) motherboard that was running i386 died a few weeks ago so I did the conversion by placing the hard disk in my other pc and selecting the boot disk from the BIOS - having 2 pc's has its advantages for such situations05:45
amarsh04powertop issue was reported as Debian bug #99805305:47
amarsh04October 2021 and no response from any maintainer05:49

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