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Installing an SSD to the ASUS E210MA laptop – 500GB Samsung SSD 980

Installing an SSD to the ASUS E210MA laptop – 500GB Samsung SSD 980

Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how to install an SSD to the ASUS E210MA laptop: This laptop features an M.2 2280 slot to install a separate NVMe drive, expanding the storage from the internal 64GB eMMC drive: We will be installing a 500GB Samsung SSD 980 NVMe drive in this slot, which will be used as a separate drive to hold the machine’s data, while keeping the 64GB eMMC drive for the Ubuntu operating system. The 500GB…

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Enabling 96Khz for the LDAC Bluetooth Codec in Linux when using WirePlumber

Enabling 96Khz for the LDAC Bluetooth Codec in Linux when using WirePlumber

Hi everyone, In this post, we will learn how to change the default Sample Rate for the LDAC Bluetooth Codec from the default value of 48Khz to 96Khz. In order to do this, you must be using PipeWire with WirePlumber and the libspa-0.2-bluetooth package installed in your Linux System. In this post, we are using Ubuntu 23.04 (Development Branch). Depending on your Linux distro, some information on this post may be different. If you are not using WirePlumber nor have…

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Updating, compiling and installing the Linux Kernel from our previously cloned Linux repository

Updating, compiling and installing the Linux Kernel from our previously cloned Linux repository

Hi everyone, In this post, I will show you how to update a locally cloned Linux Repo, run some cleanup commands, and compile the kernel again. We will then proceed to install it. This post will be shorter than yesterday due to the fact that we have already performed the preparations to compile it. We will simply be running a git pull command to update our local repository with the latest remote repository changes, run some cleanup commands, and run…

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Compiling the Linux Kernel on Ubuntu

Compiling the Linux Kernel on Ubuntu

Hi everyone, In this post, we will be seeing how to compile the Linux Kernel on Ubuntu. Unfortunately, in the past few weeks, we have not had a successful compile of the latest Linux 6.1.0 rc6 and rc7 releases. If you go to the Ubuntu Kernel daily page, you will see that the last successful build was on November 18th, and that there has not been a valid build since then. Therefore, we will be setting up our environment to…

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Fixing apt upgrade in Ubuntu 22.10 in WSL

Fixing apt upgrade in Ubuntu 22.10 in WSL

Today, I wanted to update my Ubuntu WSL setup by running sudo apt upgrade. Unfortunately, it failed with the following problem: To fix this problem, I went ahead and removed these files: After running sudo apt upgrade again, this time it succeeded: I’m running my Ubuntu WSL instance in WSL1 mode. Hope this post helps you fix your apt upgrade problem if you have encountered this same issue. Post Views: 317

You can now upgrade to the development version of Ubuntu 23.04

You can now upgrade to the development version of Ubuntu 23.04

Hi everyone, It is now possible to upgrade your existing installation of Ubuntu to the development version of Ubuntu 23.04, also called “Lunar Lobster”. In this post, we will see how to perform the upgrade. First, open the terminal and write do-release-upgrade -d: Now, you need to accept the terms by pressing “y”: Next, you may get a message telling you that third-party repositories have been disabled. Press Enter to continue: Now, we need to again, press the “y” key…

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You can now install the daily Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc6 in Ubuntu!

You can now install the daily Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc6 in Ubuntu!

Hi everyone, Today, we got a successful build of the Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc6 in the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel HTTP website. This means we can now install it manually in our systems without the need to build it manually. The changelog for the changes since the main Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc6 seem to indicate that the Linux Kernel 6.0.0-rc7 will include some fixes for the High Definition Audio interface (HDA) on some machines. These are already in this daily version. Specifically, the…

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Changing the CPU Governor to Performance in Linux

Changing the CPU Governor to Performance in Linux

Hi everyone, In this post, I’ll show you how to change the CPU governor in Linux to the Performance mode. This will allow your machine to run to its full potential as the CPU will be running to its maximum supported clock regardless of the load. Normally, we can choose between these CPU scaling governors: Therefore, if we want to get the maximum performance, we should use the performance governor. Some Linux distributions may also use another governor called schedutil…

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Changing our Virtual Machine USB Controller Model from qemu-xhci to nec-xhci

Changing our Virtual Machine USB Controller Model from qemu-xhci to nec-xhci

Hi everyone, In this post, we will change our Virtual Machine USB Controller from the default qemu-xhci model to nec-xhci. After attempting to pass a USB Audio Class 2.0 device using the generic Standard QEMU XHCI controller, I was having some sound issues, particularly with constant pops and distortions while bistreaming audio. After checking for solutions, it seems we can use the nec-xhci controller. This is what I did, and it fixed the sound issues I was having. Before doing…

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Passing the BIOS information from our PC to our QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine

Passing the BIOS information from our PC to our QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine

Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how simple it is to pass our physical machine BIOS information to our QEMU/KVM Windows Virtual Machine. Apparently, this is a way some software checks to see if it is running behind a VM and adding a simple line of configuration will pass our real machine BIOS info to the VM, so the software will read the real info rather than the one from the virtualized BIOS. Here’s an image from CPU-Z…

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