Category Archives: Slackware

Second and third display keep waking up after suspend

On my NVidia NVS 510 with 3 displays the second and third (or better the first and second) display were waking up every few seconds after being suspended. First I thought it’s a driver problem, so I’ve upgraded to the latest beta drivers. But then I’ve found somewhere a suggestion, that maybe the displays are Read the full article…

Solving large fonts problem in KDE with high resolutions on multiple displays

After upgrading my workstation with NVidia NVS 510 working on four HP LP2475w displays “rotated left” at 4800×1920, I’ve noticed really large fonts in KDE. Using System settings and changing the font size and dpi did not really help, because some apps had after that too small fonts, like KeePass (running via mono). The system-wide Read the full article…

Asus K56CB-XO100 and the right mouse button with Linux

On Slackware Linux the right touchpad/mouse button of an Asus K56CB-XO100 is not working as expected. This is caused by wrong psmouse module options and an incorrect mouse type used by the gpm daemon. The solution is very simple. Configure psmouse module options Create /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf with the following content: options psmouse proto=exps Run mouseconfig and Read the full article…

Subshell problems in Midnight Commander?

On one of my Slackware based vmachines the subshell in Midnight Commander was not working as expected. Pressing Ctrl + O worked only “partially”. Of course I was using the right shell (/bin/bash) and Midnight Commander was compiled with subshell support (an official Slackware package). # mc –version GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.4 Built with GLib Read the full article…