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Looking for help with Studio, am a total noob (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by AceSLive@lemmy.world to c/ubuntu@lemmy.ml

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Hey guys,

I don't know if this is the right place, or where to go if this isn't the right place, but I am running Ubuntu Studio. I don't really know what information is needed, but...

Ubuntu Studio 24.04 KDE plasma version 5.27.12 KDE Frameworks Version 5.115.0 QT Version 5.15.13 Kernel 6.11.0-1011-lowlatency (64 bit) Graphics platform: X11

HARDWARE: Acer Aspire 3 laptop Aspire A315-23 Version V1.21

Issue:

Mouse works fine on USB when the laptop is plugged into power. If I unplug power, the mouse stops functioning entirely, even if I plug the power back in. Mouse trackpad works either way.

Feels like it's some kind of power saving thing maybe, but it should work when it's plugged back into AC right?

Had a browse and it all feels a bit over my head for fixing this.. Any ideas?

Thanks

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[–] smegger@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah so there's something switching the power. It might not be entirely broken.

Could be a circuit that switches to battery power type of issue, worst case?

I reckon factory reset the BIOS. Worst case scenario you gotta set a few preferences again, best case scenario stuff starts working. Nothing to lose really.

[–] AceSLive@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't really know how to do that...

If the power settings are telling the laptop to disable the cursor, is there anything I can type in terminal to somewhat "reboot" those settings?

[–] smegger@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Google:

Acer Aspire a315-23 factory reset bios

There's a bunch of videos and guides, just need to find one that matches your computer. Usually hit a button during startup to access to BIOS and can reset from a menu there.

Terminal would be after startup, more operating system level stuff.

[–] AceSLive@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you,

Are there any likely issues with me doing that? Like, can it wreck my dual boot or anything? Sorry, again, completely new to this.

Cheers

[–] smegger@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Nothing permanent that I can think of. You're probably running on mostly default settings anyway. It's a laptop so you'll likely only have one hard drive so boot order shouldn't be an issue. Only thing I can think of is if you got some kinda hardware encryption setup, but that's not likely on your typical laptop.