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I’ve posted a few times about installing the nvidia-304 legacy drivers on Linux Mint, which I’ve been using on an HP desktop which has nvidia 6150 graphics on the motherboard. I just upgraded to a shiny new geforce 750ti card which runs in this same HP, powered through the PCI-E slot so and doesn’t need …
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I’ve been using Mint Cinnamon 17.1 as my main desktop OS, of all the Linux distros I’ve played with in the past couple of years, this is my favorite by far (in terms of simplicity of the Desktop Environment). 17.3 Rosa came out recently, so I hadn’t upgraded for a while, so updated via the …
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Useful tips: history – list history of all recorded shell history history n – list last n statements !n – execute nth statement from history !! execute last statement
Getting soundcard levels with alsasound on Linux dialed in for any Amateur Radio soundcard based comms can be tricky (at least in my experience). If you’ve plugged in an additional USB soundcard device like a Rigblaster or a SignaLink, it’s important to know that the ‘master’ volume level in alsamixer applies to all soudcards. Make …
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