Category Archives: linux

Wine ATI unreadable text in starcraft 2 fix

Posted on August 30, 2010 by admin

All you have to do is add nopat to the grub menu. nano /etc/default/grub Change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”nopat” Then save the file, then run sudo update-grub. It works with crossover games too, that’s what I use, which is based on … Continue reading →

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Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty works in crossover games 9.1

Posted on July 30, 2010 by admin

Bought Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty today at gamestop. Seems to work fine in crossover games, it crashes if I change the texture quality to medium, might be my computer though. At first when opening the game the text isn’t … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu enemy territory quake wars sound fix

Posted on July 5, 2010 by admin

If the sound is lagging, or there’s no sound then this will fix it. You can either remove pulseaudio, or better tell enemy territory quake wars to use oss. I used the installer from liflg.org to install the game, so … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu upgrade to latest ATI video driver

Posted on June 28, 2010 by admin

First you should remove the old driver and reboot. You’ll need this script to install it. sudo apt-get remove fglrx fglrx-amdcccle sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old sudo rm -fr /usr/lib/fglrx sudo rm -fr /etc/ati sudo reboot If you don’t have any … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu using too much memory?

Posted on May 27, 2010 by admin

The solution for me was to download a new kernel, the only problem was getting the ATI driver to work. Make sure you download the linux-headers file too, you need the _all and _arch(i386 or amd64). I got the ati … Continue reading →

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Arch Linux on MSI Nettop 100

Posted on August 8, 2009 by admin

Finally got sound working in everything, got it to work in aplay, but wasn’t working in vlc. Might be easier if your not using XFCE, but if your using xfce do the below as root. Also I’m using alsa, you … Continue reading →

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Linux distros tested on Acer Aspire One

Posted on March 7, 2009 by admin

Currently I’ve tested the following distros on the acer aspire one: Ubuntu & Xubuntu Xubuntu is faster, both are easy to get working, just download a custom kernel from aspireonekernel.com. Dream Linux Currently that’s what I have on it, everything … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit how to get serious sam the first encounter to work

Posted on January 14, 2009 by admin

The simple answer is to run ssam_lnx.dynamic, which is in ssamtfe/Bin. Found that on a russian forum, used google translate… Full instructions below. First install 32 bit libraries and linux32. sudo apt-get install ia32-libs linux32 Now go download serious sam … Continue reading →

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Bought Pangolin Performance from system76.com

Posted on January 6, 2009 by admin

Damn I hate tax, would of been cheaper if there was no tax. Got the laptop instead of desktop, cause the HDMI made it to tempting to resist, guess the video card isn’t as good as new macbook’s, but still … Continue reading →

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TRENDnet TEW-644UB works in linux

Posted on December 11, 2008 by admin

I bought two TRENDnet TEW-644UB wireless N adaptors from amazon, they were on sale for around $20 per card. Gave one to my mom, and was going to give the other one to sister, not sure if she wants it, … Continue reading →

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