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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Improving Wireless Signal Reach
The channel over which you broadcast your wireless signal matters. I have been attempting to improve the wireless reception for my basement workstation which sits approximately 25 meters (hypothetical line of sight) from the wireless base station. I’m using a … Continue reading
KDE Tips: Desktop Effects and Screen Resolution
So, in all my messing around with Fedora 20 and KDE, I had somehow inadvertently crashed OpenGL (which, given the various graphics drivers, GPU overclock configurations, etc., isn’t that surprising). All I knew as a result was that KDE seemed … Continue reading
Benchmark: Updating the GA-F2A88XM-D3H BIOS to Version f6b
Well, here are the results from the previous benchmarks with BIOS f5: Unigine Heaven v4.0 @ 1920×1080: 6.13 fps Unigine Heaven v4.0 @ 1600×900: 8.27 fps Unigine Tropics v1.3 @ 1920×1080: 24.29 fps Unigine Tropics v1.3 @ 1600×900: 29.47 fps … Continue reading
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Tagged A10-6800K, AMD, Benchmark, BIOS, Catalyst/FGLRX/Crimson, Fedora, GA-F2A88XM-D3H, GNU/Linux
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Working with libvirtd, virsh, and virt-manager
What a day. I spent about 10 hours working solely on KVM virtualization. I have installed the Fedora virtualization package (sudo yum groupinstall ‘Virtualization’) and I worked through the SELinux concerns with choosing an alternate location for your virtual disk … Continue reading
Submitting a Bug Report to Gigabyte
So, I read on the Gigabyte website that the BIOS firmware for my motherboard (f6b) is considered to be beta firmware because they are still receiving feedback from customers and the current state of the driver may not reflect its … Continue reading
Is Your System Slow After Flashing Your BIOS?
You were just trying to be a good Internet citizen, patching your firmware and ensuring system stability and security. But it all went wrong… Public Service Announcement: Remember to reconfigure your BIOS settings after flashing. End Public Service Announcement I … Continue reading
Updating the Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H BIOS
In the previous post I mention the following announcements in my kernel ring buffer (visible through the dmesg utility): [Firmware Bug]: AMD-Vi: IOAPIC[0] not in IVRS table [Firmware Bug]: AMD-Vi: No southbridge IOAPIC found [Firmware Bug]: AMD-Vi: Disabling interrupt remapping … Continue reading
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Tagged A10-6800K, AMD, AMD-Vi, BIOS, GA-F2A88XM-D3H, Gigabyte, IOMMU, overclock, wine
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Another Route for Windows-to-Linux Gaming
So, I was attempting with all my energy to get PlayOnLinux along with wine working to the point where I could comfortably run Windows games on my Linux machine. While this met with (very) limited success in that I got … Continue reading
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Tagged AMD-Vi, Catalyst/FGLRX/Crimson, DirectX 11, Fedora, GA-F2A88XM-D3H, GNU/Linux, IOMMU, Microsoft/Windows, PlayOnLinux, Steam, wine
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Migrating Filesystems with rsync (updated with alternative dd command syntax)
I was answering a question in ask.fedoraproject.org, and I scavenged from the Internet this process to migrate an entire root directory tree structure to a new filesystem using the powerful and ever-useful rsync command. I’m posting it here purely as … Continue reading
Installing the AMD Catalyst 14.3 (fglrx) Drivers
It appears the process has not changed from the original 14.2 post, which is good, since this is only a minor update. In fact, the reason I’m writing about it so late (it was released on Monday, 3/17/2014) is that … Continue reading
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Tagged AMD, Catalyst/FGLRX/Crimson, Fedora, GNU/Linux
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Engineering Walden 