Category: Linux News

Linux: 46″ inch Weatherstation Display with Thinclient PC and Linux OS

With Tiny Core Linux: 46″ inch Weatherstation Display with FSC S500 Thinclient PC and Linux OS connected via DVI-D to HDMI Cable Awesome to see Satellite Images in HDTV Resolution and Full Color all developed by me. www.linuxonlinehelp.eu YOU NEED NOT to buy a “SmartTV” of Samsung cause the Thinchlient uses open Linux and offers […]

Debian Linux Wheezy: Partitioning 3TB Hard Drives with GPT Table (fdisk show 2TB max.)

Problem: On Debian Linux the brand new 3TB SATA Drives only seen as 2TB Drives by fdisk Background: GPT Partition Table must be used as new technology Solution: install “gdisk” the GPT Tool for big Drives with #sudo aptitude install gdisk clean the new Drives first Table Headers with #sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=1 bs=512 […]

Hardware Bugs: Seagate ST3000DM001 9YN166 3TB Drives Click Noise

Problem: My brand new Seagate Drives running as Raid1 with two Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN166 on Debian clicks sometimes. Background: Noise is made by parking heads and spin control by the firmware, often seen on Home NAS (Update 2017: The Firmware of this Generation is buggy, Fault rate 70% after 2 Years) Solution: go to Manufacter Site […]

WordPress: Change Editor Font Size without Plugins

Problem: If you use wordpress and use a high resolution Screen on your Laptop or Workstation the dehault font size is too small. Solution: Edit with: #sudo nano ../wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/wp_theme/content.css change value 13 to 16 or 19 at: body { font: 16px/19px Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; margin: 10px; color: #000; }

Debian Linux: Squeeze ATI Mobility M7 xorg.conf Thinkpad T30 Performance

Problem: Squeeze fglrx does not support older ATI Chips (If i view Flashvideos the CPU usage hold at 100% after change 25-30% usage !) Solution: sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf and paste Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" […]

Debian Linux: Squeeze ATI Fire GL T2 Thinkpad R50p xorg.conf with 3D

Problem: Squeeze Kernel does not Support older ATI chips with fglrx Solution:  edit  with sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf  and paste (Remark: use Driver “ati” for 3D , use “radeon” for sometimes faster flashvideos) Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" […]

GDM3: Change Wallpaper Change background color Speed up GDM3 after boot

Problem: By default Debian with GDM3 is slow on older Hardware like Laptops or PCs with small Graphic Card Background: GDM3 shows Images at size 800×600 an zooms up to Screen Size, this burns speed. Solution: edit gdm3-theme config sudo nano /usr/share/gdm/greeter-config/20_debian and change to #Use a specific background #/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /..path #to wallpaper #/desktop/gnome/background/picture_options zoom […]

Debian Wheezy: linux/videodev.h no such file or directory mjpg-streamer compile error

Problem: On Debian Wheezy Kernel 3.0 the compile of older video4linux (like mjpg-streamer)  scripts fails with message, cause linux/videodev.h was replaced by linux/videodev2.h Error Message at “make” compile: …linux/videodev.h : no such file or directory Solution: download last sources of mjpg-streamer-experimental and extract to /usr/src/mjpg-streamer/ sudo cd /usr/src/mjpg-streamer/  and sudo make clean all, if fails […]