Category: NZTekonverse -> Debian
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Computing resources optimisation [6]
Well computer no.4 is not going to be “ministrypc”, it is going to be a computer for displaying pictures on with the maps project. I just decided this is the best way to do things, because its screen resolution of 1600×900 is higher than mediapc. But also, because I want to keep mediapc just for…
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Fix for x11vnc problems on Stretch
Following up to my last article, having tested x11vnc for a day on mediapc, it crashed with the “stack smashing detected” issue. Reported as a Debian bug here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859213 This issue affects multiple distros, including ones unrelated to Debian, such as Red Hat, Arch and Fedora, as well as related such as Ubuntu. The recommended…
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HOWTO: Add extra display settings permanently to Linux
I have a Veon TV that I use as a display for the bedroom pc and its major problem is that it is detected as a resolution of 1920×1080 but its native resolution is actually 1360×768. With other computers the instructions I dug up were to use xrandr commands in some of the lightdm config…
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HOWTO: Connect a Nexus 5X to a PC
Previously on this blog I have bemoaned the apparent lack of support for the Nexus 5X on PCs. It turns out however that the connectivity is not well documented (not as far as I am aware with Android 8). Earlier efforts failed because I thought a driver was needed, of which no such thing actually…
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PulseAudio settings in Debian
As everyone knows, PulseAudio is pretty common in Linux for controlling audio levels. It was written by the same guy who wrote systemd. You can make up whatever politics you want around that. PulseAudio has a configuration file called daemon.conf that is located either in ~/.config/pulse or in /etc/pulse . An important setting is flat-volumes…
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General update
Since last time I have been doing a lot of setup stuff with various computers. Win10PC is gradually getting set up, the only stuff I really need it for is a handful of things like downloading gigabytes of maps or whatever, scanning, ripping DVDs and bulk Irfanview stuff so it isn’t moving along very fast…
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Computing resources optimisation [1A]
After looking at the best use of the computing resources I have the following changes are being implemented: Mediapc taken down from 12 GB RAM to 4 GB RAM The 8 GB from mediapc put into mainpc as they have similar memory specs, this gives mainpc a total of 32 GB. Mediapc manages just fine…
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Raspberry Pi [2]
Well now that I have this thing I have to find a use for it, and that use is proving to be best made out in hooking it to the TV and playing live Youtube content. It does however turn out able to play some existing video content, provided that you use the built in…
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Raspberry Pi
As we all know the Raspberry Pi is a low cost mini computer that occupies a very small form factor. It runs on Linux and there is an enthusiastic community of supporters. I have elected to acquire a Pi to replace my satellite decoder box and dish for FTA TBN channels. Previously I had entered…
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KDE vs XFCE [2]
So I have been testing some VMs to see how things compare with different GUIs running on Linux. First tryout has been KDE running on Kubuntu. So far so good. The right click issue hasn’t gone away but drag and drop looks good. Second tryout was LXQT with Kwin running on Debian. This isn’t a…