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…