Problem: After upgrading a system to NVME, Linux boots without textconsole, or sends the text console to the wrong graphics card. Discussion: The NVME upgrade needed to change from BIOS boot to UEFI boot. UEFI boot disables the pure text console, and the kernel uses whatever frame buffer is available, or without text console if […]
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I bought a new notebook, and installed a minimal Linux distribution on it. While setting everything up, I put together a collection of configuration files and scripts, and compiled them in this github repository: https://github.com/alexte/mate-book-pro-x-linux-config
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The new Vim 8 on Debian tries again to appeal to the 95% of the people (the noobs) and adds features the are annoying to professionals. When these new features are buggy it’s even worse. Problem: vim 8 on debian 9 has some annoying default settings for vim paste uses a vim internal clipboard instead the
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Many Linux distribution builders like Devuan and Debian produce hybrid ISO image that work on discs and USB sticks. You can make bootable USB sticks by simply copying the image to the USB device with this command dd if=isoimage of=/dev/sdX bs=10240 You can find the device name (X) by looking into dmesg oder lsscsi, and
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If you want to use different source IP addresses based on the logged in user or running service on a Linux computer you can use these simple commands: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 NEW-IP-ADDRESS netmask YOUR-NORMAL-NETMASK /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -m owner –uid-owner USERNAME -j SNAT –to-source NEW-IP-ADDRESS You can use this if the source IP is
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Current computers are fast enough to handle more than one user at a time. So I started the project to setup my workstation to support two seats, one for me and one for my gf. Tasks: Two concurrent Xorg sessions both with one keyboard, one mouse, and two monitors Separate audio for both seats Auto
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I had two or three system crashes on my Linux workstation after upgrading to a new mother board and CPU within some months. This is very unusual for me because stability is the main objective when I build a new a workstation. So I tried to find the reason. Some weeks ago I found this
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Problem: after installing linux kernel 4.11.1, the dkms package of the nvidia driver does not compile. You find some cryptic error message about ./Kbuild in /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/375.39/build/make.log Solution: I uninstalled the debian nvidia package and installed the newer driver from the NVidia homepage: aptitude remove nvidia-installer-cleanup ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.66.run After this upgrade nvidia and linux 4.11.1 works again Versions: before upgrade jessie
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Problem: Firefox 52 audio does not work without pulseaudio. Discussion: pulseaudio is a bloated audio daemon that often fails. In the last years, when ever audio failed on linux, the quickest solution was to uninstall pulseaudio. But the Firefox developers made the mistake to remove support for the underlying audio driver alsa, and insist on the middle
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Linux support from dell is still very poor. They still support only RedHat$ and SuSE$. But there are ways to check the Raid status of Dell server on debian. http://hwraid.le-vert.net/ is doing a good job in collecting information and building Debian style packages. Example: A Dell server “PowerEdge T130” with “LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3
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