In November of 2021 I purchased an ASUS Gaming Desktop computer. I bought it at Best Buy and had it delivered to my front door. The model is a ASUS ROG STRIX C15-B11. It comes with an Intel 11700KF CPU, an ASUS TUF Gaming Nvidia RTX 3080 NON LHR GPU, 16GB of rather generic RAM,… Continue reading ASUS Gaming Desktop
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AMD Radeon DRIVER GLITCH
AMD Radeon Driver 20.4.1 This is one of the bugs that exist in the recent AMD drivers for the 5700 XT. It may also exist for other AMD cards with this driver or for this card on the 20.4.2 or 20.5.1 driver. This one was very difficult to isolate. I enabled the “Video Replay” feature… Continue reading AMD Radeon DRIVER GLITCH
Userbench fails Sphere graphics test. Possible solution.
If you are experiencing an error running the userbench suite of tests, and the error indicates “ERROR: Sphere GPU benchmark failed, aborting further tests on this GPU” then this MAY solve your issue. I isolated this error on my system to the Nahimic service that is a part of the Realtek Audio driver package. To… Continue reading Userbench fails Sphere graphics test. Possible solution.
Linux Mint 19.2 Install of Netgear A-7000 USB 3.0 Wireless adapter
The following outlines the procedure to install the “rtl8814au” driver for Linux Mint 19.2 The kernel recommended is 5.0 or greater. sudo apt install build-essential sudo apt install bc sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) sudo apt install git dkms sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade git clone https://github.com/tpircher/rtl8814AU cd rtl8814au make sudo make install… Continue reading Linux Mint 19.2 Install of Netgear A-7000 USB 3.0 Wireless adapter
Install Windows 10 and lose your GRUB menu?
Try this from an ADMIN command prompt bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi Note: This is from Windows 10, and this will work with any flavor of Ubuntu and with Mint, it will not work with other distributions.
Sometimes it’s nice to disable EXT4’s journaling.
I find that when I run F19 natively on a USB drive, disabling the journaling of the EXT4 filesystem improves performance significantly. tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sdf1
Fedora 18 firewall.
I upgraded to Fedora 18. Then verified my web server was running. Then attempted to visit this site. I was not able to. The problem was the new firewall daemon in Fedora 18. Despite the config file indicating that port 80 was open for http traffic, it was not. I had to install firewall-config. yum… Continue reading Fedora 18 firewall.
Apache web server 2.4 on Fedora 18
I recently upgraded my web server system from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18. I used fedup to do so. The upgrade went fairly smooth. A couple days later I noticed that Apache ( httpd ) was not running. In the course of trouble shooting I had to disable selinux. When I enabled selinux again, there… Continue reading Apache web server 2.4 on Fedora 18
Fedora 16 – Pager not on taskbar
Steps to correct 1) Launcher 2) System Settings 3) Workspace behaviour 4) Change the number of Virtual Desktops to desired amount
Howto: LiveUSB – request by students of Long Beach City College.
Howto: LiveUSB 1) Download the latest live image. You can download it from the official Fedora mirrors. a) Fedora 15 Live Images – Live Images for Fedora 15 2) Download and install LiveUSB Creator. a) Windows – LiveUSB-Creator b) Linux – run su -c yum install liveusb-creator -y 3) Install the LiveUSB Creator program. 4)… Continue reading Howto: LiveUSB – request by students of Long Beach City College.