Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:46:23 +0100 > Franziska Menti <fme...@phys.ethz.ch> wrote: > > > Hi Charles
[snip] > What I had in mind here is something like: > > dmesg | less -X > > then use the search function (the / key) to search for snd_hda_intel > and (separately) snd_sof_pci_intel_mtl. Check in the neighbor of any > entries for error messages. > > For journalctl, the setup will be a bit more complex. depending on > what you want. > > journalctl -b | less > > for everything since the last boot. > > journalctl -S YYYY-MM-DD | less > > for everything since the given date (e.g. 2012-10-30). > > man less and man journalctl are your friends. And your IT person > should be familiar with these tools. Indeed so, and in particular the bit in journalctl's man page where it says "The output is paged through less by default ..." ! Piping journalctl's output through less is pointless, I think. dmesg -H might also be worth looking at.
