~Toughbooktalk~

Hi all I'm making this thread to document the contraption I'm putting together since I have caught the toughbook bug. In 2 months I have now acquired 3 working mk 6 and spare top half lol. This build is using my cf 191hyag1m that was my first purchase and my main toy at the moment with 2710 hours. P...

I will try this thank you. It seems I know just enough to get me in trouble lol

OK so now I have really screwed some things up, my grub no longer shows up when booting even when holding shift. This came about from me mucking about changing boot order (which went fine) to boot windows first instead of my broken mint. Well since it went well I got greedy and tried the next recomm...

Sorry it took so long in getting back to yall the weather broke and work went nuts. I did not have any luck, the Asus controller broke my mint somehow. I no longer have sound or any control over the screen brightness, the buttons on the front work and show a Lil box on screen but no matter what sett...

thank you. I had stumbled upon that asus link about 20 minutes ago. I was working backwards from a thread I found about disabling it. Ubuntu Forums https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2203589. I will try this method in a few minutes. I'm trying to teach myself all this stuff as I go. Once all ...

I must be doing something wrong I actually lost the whole command line with the second piece of code. The dmesg by itself gave me a bunch of code I have been looking through. I found alot of usb errors listed though. Sorry kinda learning linux as I go along

I only have mint and Kali (light sensor does not seem to work on either) along with Windows on this machine. I will make a USB of Zorin and try that. Kali runs my touch screen much better then mint.

Hi I was wondering if anyone else with a 19 mk6 running mint had luck with the ambient light sensor? I have kinda given up on my front buttons and my luck with screen calibration worked somewhat. The thing that bugs me the most is the auto back light, turns out I kinda got used to it. Any advice or ...