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starhawk · 12-01-2021, 06:34 AM

Hi!

I'm a low-income individual. I live in an apartment complex with a lot of older people (I'm in my mid-30s, most of the others here are at least twice my age). I erm program a lot of TVs and DVD players

in the old days it would've been VCRs lol. I also get a lot of 'donations' -- "My grandson says this laptop he dropped on its lid is a bit old, he's just going to buy a new one, maybe you can use it?"

Yes, Ma'am, how many more does he have that he can be just as clumsy with?

Lord forgive me, but it's a freaking Lenovo 320 -- the screen may have been garbage to begin with but the processor inside absolutely smokes anything else I have on hand! Had to rip out the battery, too -- it didn't boot with the battery in there, just sat blinking angry orange lights at me. Both my parents are from upstate NJ, so I was imagining it making Italian hand gestures at me in my mind...

AMD A12 CPU / 8gb DDR3 / 500gb platter drive from a drawer in my closet. Almost all of those come from a buddy of mine who runs the local tech shop, he gets loads of prebuilts with platter jobs inside and swaps em for SSDs, gives me what he knnows he'll never use. Super low mileage on these.

Well, now it's an all-in-one. I've got one of those fancy new USB-C "universal docking stations" (Anyone else remember when they were called "port replicators"?) and because I use Linux Mint and I asked The Google what to get, I bought that qGEEM one that everyone says works with Linux Mint.

Well, maybe I'm a big dummy but I just can't get it to work.

Drivers installed fine. No errors at all. Everything shows up in "lsusb" and "dmesg". But there's only one display in Display -- the primary one using the laptop's own HDMI out -- and I don't see any other configurator anything anywhere. I booted with the HDMI cable plugged in; unplugging and replugging the cable didn't seem to change anything.

I don't get it. What am I missing? Did I forget to install something? I only see a download for a driver. I'm running Linux Mint 20.2.

I am sooooooo cooonfuuuuuuuuuuuuused lol

Plz send kittens and help.

12-01-2021, 06:34 AM	#1
starhawk Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2021 Posts: 5	Rigged-Up Lenovo 320 + qGEEM USB-C Port Replicator / Mint 20.2 - Am I Just That Dumb? Hi! I'm a low-income individual. I live in an apartment complex with a lot of older people (I'm in my mid-30s, most of the others here are at least twice my age). I erm program a lot of TVs and DVD players in the old days it would've been VCRs lol. I also get a lot of 'donations' -- "My grandson says this laptop he dropped on its lid is a bit old, he's just going to buy a new one, maybe you can use it?" Yes, Ma'am, how many more does he have that he can be just as clumsy with? Lord forgive me, but it's a freaking Lenovo 320 -- the screen may have been garbage to begin with but the processor inside absolutely smokes anything else I have on hand! Had to rip out the battery, too -- it didn't boot with the battery in there, just sat blinking angry orange lights at me. Both my parents are from upstate NJ, so I was imagining it making Italian hand gestures at me in my mind... AMD A12 CPU / 8gb DDR3 / 500gb platter drive from a drawer in my closet. Almost all of those come from a buddy of mine who runs the local tech shop, he gets loads of prebuilts with platter jobs inside and swaps em for SSDs, gives me what he knnows he'll never use. Super low mileage on these. Well, now it's an all-in-one. I've got one of those fancy new USB-C "universal docking stations" (Anyone else remember when they were called "port replicators"?) and because I use Linux Mint and I asked The Google what to get, I bought that qGEEM one that everyone says works with Linux Mint. Well, maybe I'm a big dummy but I just can't get it to work. Drivers installed fine. No errors at all. Everything shows up in "lsusb" and "dmesg". But there's only one display in Display -- the primary one using the laptop's own HDMI out -- and I don't see any other configurator anything anywhere. I booted with the HDMI cable plugged in; unplugging and replugging the cable didn't seem to change anything. I don't get it. What am I missing? Did I forget to install something? I only see a download for a driver. I'm running Linux Mint 20.2. I am sooooooo cooonfuuuuuuuuuuuuused lol Plz send kittens and help.