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That's probably the best option in term of hardware support, if it's a BIOS would not care if it's a SDD or HDD if it's SATA. From what I understand M.2 would work if the BIOS knows how to boot from PCI-E. But if you already have the M.2 drive it might be worth getting a $9 PCI-E adapter to give it...

Beware that an older motherboard might only have SATA II ports which would limit throughput to 300 MB/sec which is likely to bottleneck a sata SSD (typically capable of 500MB/s on a SATA III port from what i've seen). How would I find out the type of SATA ports it has (lspci, hwinfo, etc. ??) A rel...

Thanks for the replies. I initially didn't pay too much attention to siamhie's sata hdd to sata ssd suggestion. Mainly because the pcie x1 & x16 slots are right out in the open and don't require disassembly to get the harddrive. I'm not that handy mechanically and wasn't sure if I could figure o...

I think it would work, it would be slow, since x1 does 1GB/s. if you look on Amazon you'll find PCI-e 1x to M.2 in the $9-$20 range, you can probably spare $9 to give it a try, you might even be able to return the device if it doesn't work. Even if it's slow as ssd's go I was thinking it would prob...

This isn't really a question about MX, it's a hardware related question. I have a 10+ year old Gateway pc, AMD Kabini based machine (https://www.newegg.com/gateway-sx2185-ub37/p/N82E16883113295). It's not my main machine anymore, but I've been keeping it as a backup. I would like to add a m.2 nvme s...

@kmathern See what you started? By the way, Kent, it's nice to see you back around :hug: Yeah I do, not sure if you're happy or upset. I've always been a bit annoyed waiting on the dkms stuff to get compiled when a kernel updated/installed, especially when it was for hardware/devices I wasn't using...

I get a false detection on the 8812au module. Don't have any realtek device. $ dumplist=""; for a in 8812au 8821au rtl8821ce; do lsmod | awk '{print $1}' | grep $a >/dev/null; status=$?; if test $status -eq 0; then dumplist+="$a "; fi; done; echo $dumplist 8812au It doesn't get d...

I wonder if there could be a dkms cleanup tool, or maybe a step during installation that could identify un-needed dkms packages and offer to uninstall them for those who don't need them? Have it default to leaving them installed, and also explain the ramifications of removing them (positives -- less...

we ship some drivers that are dkms packages. broadcom and realtek drivers. if you don't need them, remove them. the dkms rebuilds should only be happening on kernel updates, unless you have some incomplete update that previously occurred and some dkms package failed to build or install fully. apt/d...

...I created a new depends list by joining our existing depends with what's in the vanilla version and then checked to see what this new package list would bring down on a firefox install in a pristine MX23 VM and every one of them was already installed... except for libgcc1 . It only exists in bus...