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Would the xev program help ?

I suspect the mouse has a faulty left button. How can I check that, given that I can't unplug the mouse ?

Due to the particular arrangement of the desktop, it is not really possible to unplug the mouse, which uses a USB port at the back of the desktop. I am thinking of plugging a new wired USB mouse into a USB port at the front of the desktop. My question is : Can I have two USB mice plugged in at...

I am running Debian 11 on a desktop PC. Recently my mouse (Logitech B100 USB wired) has started to become 'draggy' I.e. cursor is slow to respond to movement of the mouse and often repeated movements of the mouse are needed to get the cursor to move. This 'draggy' behaviour is getting worse. The...

I run a desktop PC with Debian 11, Ryzen 5 5600x CPU and MSI-B550 A Pro motherboard. Recently, Hardware error messages such as the following have appeared every few weeks :- And around the time of the error messages on the 22nd May, the syslog extracts say: May 22 23:11:51 piglit kernel...

A desktop PC is running Debian 11. Recently the sleep/Standby key on the USB keyboard was accidentally touched. This put the PC into sleep/standby mode. The power switch was then momentarily pressed, causing the PC to come back to life. Is there any key or combination of keys that can be...

This problem has now been extended and further details are now on thread 'problem with USB 3 port' in motherboards forum.

The hard drive was removed from its USB port and inserted into another USB port to see whether the first port was faulty. A card reader had to be removed from its USB port so that the external hard drive could be inserted into that port. An attempt was then made to mount the hard drive, but...

An external USB hard drive has been used for a number of years to regularly archive data on a Linux Debian system. The latest attempt to archive data gave the following error :- mount /media/backup mount : can't find UUID=0688802088800FFB Why does this error occur and how is it fixed ? Thanks.

I am asking before I buy the motherboard as I want to check whether my combination of operating system, CPU and motherboard will work okay with no stability issues.

Has anyone successfully used an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 in an MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX motherboard and the stable version of Debian 10 as the operating system ?

I have just seen this article :- https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3900x-linux-distros&num=1 which shows Debian 10 (Debian Buster) work okay with a third generation Ryzen CPU (Ryzen 9 3900X) I am puzzled, because I understand that Debian 10 has problems working with 3rd...

Thanks for your reply Rdslw. So you used a third generation Ryzen CPU with a 4.18 kernel with no real problem ? If so, which CPU did you use, please ?

Thanks for the reply. Someone else has also recommended this card. Are there any B450 motherboards that don't use the Realtek 8111H ?

I am thinking of having a desktop built with Linux Debian Buster as the operating system. The motherboard I was going to use has a Realtek 8111H lan controller. I understand that this lan controller has issues with Linux and Debian installs the wrong driver. I was advised to use an Intel...