I wish someone would bring an open-source Nvidia driver to the Linux operating system. I hate having to use a binary installer you have to download and run to install the drivers when you could just have the driver code in the kernel. I know it is not hard to…
Read MoreIntel Arc GPU the future of gaming? The upcoming Intel Arc GPU will add another competitor to the GPU market, that is dominated by ATI and Nvidia GPU retailers. The problem is that Bitcoin miners are buying up all of the GPU cards that are for sale and the prices…
Read MoreMounting an old LVM volume on Ubuntu 20.04, is very easy, there are numerous posts on Stackoverflow that have many complicated commands for mounting a drive using the command line. But I needed to mount an old Ubuntu installation and it was an LVM2 volume, so I could not get…
Read MoreRunning Windows in a qemu virtual machine is very easy. Install all required qemu packages. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-utils qemujason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-utils qemu Now we can create a virtual machine disk image to install our virtual machine onto. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ qemu-img create -f raw win7.img 30Gjason@Yog-Sothoth:~$…
Read MoreI am running Linux at the moment with a Geforce 740 and I have not installed the proprietary drivers at all. I am using the Nouveau drivers and my system is performing very quickly indeed. Previously, I had a Radeon HD6670 installed and the open-source drivers were used. And in…
Read MoreThis is the proper command to install the accelerated ATI drivers on Linux Mint Debian Edition. The fglrx-driver package allowed me to use higher resolutions after enabling the driver with this command: sudo aticontrol –initial but the driver did not allow acceleration. After using this command to install all of…
Read MoreI have managed to get the 14.4 ATI drivers to compile against the new 3.15 kernel on Linux Mint 16. I followed this guide: http://bluehatrecord.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/amd-catalyst-14-4-for-linux-loses-support-for-linux-kernel-versions-above-3-11/ and I used the commands on this page as well as this linked patch. This is how I managed to do it. I am now…
Read MoreI recently updated to a new kernel version and the ATI drivers were not loaded as they had not been built for that kernel. I had to re-compile the ATI drivers, so I switched to the root user and navigated to this folder. [root@localhost homer]# cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/[root@localhost homer]# cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/…
Read MoreHow to install the ATI proprietary drivers on Fedora 19. I have just installed the DVD release of the Fedora 19 x86_64 Linux distribution, this took quite a while, but I installed the MATE desktop instead of the default. gnome 3.8 desktop environment. That is why downloading the 4.3 gigabyte…
Read MoreThe Ubuntu Linux distribution is moving to the MIR display server to replace the ageing Xorg display server. This is intended to allow the development of the next-generation Unity desktop. This means that you will be able to use the one Unity desktop on a television; PC monitor and a…
Read MoreI recently installed a different kernel on Linux Mint 14 and my ATI drivers were not working. To fix this I had to install the kernel headers for the appropriate kernel that I was running. john@adeptus-mechanicus ~ $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-25-lowlatencyjohn@adeptus-mechanicus ~ $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-25-lowlatency Then I…
Read MoreTo install Nvidia drivers in Linux Mint, download the drivers and save them to your home directory, then you need to log out of your desktop back to the LightDM log in manager, then press CTRL->ALT->F2 to get to the text console and log in as your user and then…
Read MoreThe ATI Radeon graphics card I have is working rather well when I have the drivers installed; but the open-source drivers leave a lot to be desired. I will probably be using the Fedora 17 Linux distribution in the future; I just need to chroot into the Fedora installation and…
Read MoreI have installed a fresh copy of Linux Mint 13 in Virtualbox to experiment with and I needed to install the guest additions to enable full desktop resolutions and many other features. I downloaded the guest additions ISO from here: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0/ and then added it to Virtualbox as a CDROM…
Read MoreI had a hell of a time getting my Radeon HD6670 card to work with my Linux Mint 13 installation; eventually I tried the fglrx packages from the Linux Mint repositories instead of the drivers from the ATI website. The actual driver module will not compile and I will have…
Read MoreThe Linux desktop needs a change badly. There is an article and a video here: http://lunduke.com/?p=2953&cpage=1#comment-40465. Talking about what needs to change with the Linux distributions of today to improve the experience for the desktop users. I think that getting rid of the stupid and useless Unity desktop interface and…
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