My new 5700XT card is only supported in newer linux kernels, so I am using 5.4.0-14-generic. Using this card plugged into my TV has been causing a lot of audio problems. The HDMI sound cuts out, frequently, for a few seconds at a time. Watching a youtube video seems ok,… Continue reading
Background A couple of years ago I mucked around with something called PCI-E passthrough. The idea is to let a Virtual Machine (VM) use an physical GPU. This lets me, who almost exclusively run Linux, run some Windows only games in a Windows VM. I think I was first exposed… Continue reading
Data. What data do I consider important? I had a backup scare a while ago, thinking Iโd lost several yearsโ worth of photographs. It looks like I did have some level of backup, but not all of them were retrieved. So I suppose Photographs are one thing I feel I… Continue reading
Abstract Recently, Valve released Half-Life 2 and it’s episodes for Linux. For me, this is more or less a dream come true, something I’ve been waiting and wanting and wishing for since I started using Linux in 2006. I’ve tried Wine, multiple times, and it’s always been a bit too… Continue reading
Today something very exciting happened. Half-Life 2 and its episodes are now available for Linux. This year has been great for Linux gaming, and I’m managing to move further and further away from Windows as my primary OS. My laptop dual boots Windows 8 and Xubuntu 13.04, and my desktop… Continue reading
I recently decided to move install Xubuntu on my desktop, having gotten fed up of Arch Linux. Arch Linux will make it’s return, but I was having too much trouble with the AMD legacy drivers. When I’ve upgraded my graphics card (hint – for one that doesn’t have shit linux… Continue reading