Hosh Sadiq's questions

I have a Dell XPS 15 9560 running Ubuntu 18.04 and I can't seem to get the memory card working. Everything I've tried, looking at other threads on here and elsewhere, but to no avail. Below is the details:

 $ lspci -vvnn -s 03:00.0
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:525a] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Dell RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader [1028:07be]
    Physical Slot: 1
    Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 135
    Region 1: Memory at ed400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
    Kernel modules: rtsx_pci

 $ lsmod | grep rtsx                  
rtsx_usb               20480  0
rtsx_pci_ms            20480  0
memstick               16384  1 rtsx_pci_ms
rtsx_pci_sdmmc         24576  0
rtsx_pci               57344  2 rtsx_pci_sdmmc,rtsx_pci_ms

 $ ls -la /dev | grep mmc
 $ sudo rmmod rtsx_pci_sdmmc rtsx_pci_ms rtsx_pci
 $ sudo modprobe rtsx_pci
 $ ls -la /dev | grep mmc

Based on the above, it's quite clear the module is loaded and ready, but the memory card is not seen by the kernel.

Other people seem to have success by inserting the memory card before boot, but that doesn't seem to work for me.

From memory this worked fine in 17.10.

Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.

For some reason my TouchPad drivers don't seem to work until I restart the mouse drivers (sudo rmmod psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse) or I put the computer to sleep and then wake it again. I've checked synclient and xinput when it doesn't work, and both indicate that it is actually on:

% synclient | grep -i touchpadoff
  TouchpadOff             = 0


% xinput list-props 13 | grep -i off
      Synaptics Off (304):    0

Also, if I restart some settings seem to reset regardless of what the actual setting say (namely Settings > Mouse & Touchpad > Natural Scrolling is on and when I restart the Touhpad it switches off, so I have to switch it off to switch it back on).

How can fix this odd behaviour? Or where can I look to find out what is going on?

My machine is a Lenovo Yoga 13

I've got Spotify for Linux installed and for some reason I was getting duplicated notifications for song changes (different text as well). Now one of them is very bad, as it just shows the song title. The second one comes from spotify-notify (which I installed myself). I've been trying to figure out what program sends this other notification but to no avail. Is there a way to identify this program?

It seems that some applications the borders are missing, I noticed it on gnome-system-monitor, but thought not much of it as I don't really use it. But more applications are having this issue too now, such as gnome-clock. Any one any ideas what might be causing this? Most things work fine, e.g. unity-control-center.

EDIT: just found out, I can drag and drop it using the invisible areas (through the Alt modifier obviously).

KDE has the option to "Reverse scroll direction", which is great when I'm using my TouchPad, however, I equally use a mouse quite often on my laptop but when it comes to a mouse, I prefer the normal scrolling. Is this possible at all? If not, where do I start if I want to implement this myself?