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Hello,

I first attempted to just connect iphone via usb, had no luck. a friend mentioned libimobiledevice to me, I then attempted to install from their website instructions, thus my early failed attempts.

Just prior to my original post I came across iDevice on MXLinux site. I found it in the repos ...

Hello everyone,

After several failed attempts I finally got libimobiledevice installed and working, it shows the DCIM directory. I was hoping that I would be able to copy files, music, audiobooks as well as photos to and from my iphone. Can anyone confirm that I should be able to do this? If so any ...

I want thank everyone who weighed in on this, I appreciate you giving your time, knowledge and experience!

I will experiment more and post experience here.

Thanks everyone!

Hello,

Sweatness!!!!!!!!!!

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First I renamed /etc/X11/xorg.conf to xorg_conf.bak which was returned by the grep search
grep -r intel /etc/X11/xorg.conf* /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf*

So I edited /etc/default/grub, adding the following after quiet splash
iommu=calgary intel_iommu=on ...

So added the code to GRUB via boot edit

No change with Google Earth

Here is the QSI, did not seem to make any change.
Snapshot created on: 20230415_1837
System: Kernel: 5.10.0-23-amd64 [5.10.179-2] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-23-amd64 root ...

Not sure if any of this will be of help, but on my HP same vintage as yours, I had an issue at one point with loading the 6.0 and 6.1 kernels, and the issue was somehow memory / video related.

I tried each of these lines on kernel load separately like you are supposed to do, but nothing changed ...

Hello,

Here is the full QSI
Snapshot created on: 20230415_1837
System: Kernel: 5.10.0-23-amd64 [5.10.179-2] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-23-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm ...

Hello,

So I edited /etc/default/grub, adding i915.modeset=1, then update-grub

When I reboot I see the addition in GRUB when I hit e

System boots fine but I see no change in Graphics section of QSI, Google Earth still has small but functional view window.

Thoughts?

Hello,

I enabled: Intel(R) Virtualization Technology in BIOS
Rebooted, Text: [ 0.158309] x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS ; no longer present in boot sequence

Added: i915.modeset=1 to GRUB
No visual difference in QSI
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor ...

Oh ok, I am a loss. This laptop has been the most troublesome Linux conversion that I have ever had. Not sure why.