It's been a while since my last post on this blog due to an overloaded working schedule. However, now I found a good reason to write a new one and to share my experience with the world. Recently I've built…
Gentoo AMD Ryzen stabilizator
Finding which Linux module is needed for your hardware
Your Linux distro or even the stock Linux kernel comes with all thinkable drivers for all those hardware that they supported. Most of them are preselected by default (base on hardware architecture) to cover a wide palette of hardware. However,…
Boost Linux kernel compilation for Raspberry Pi
I do a lot of experiments with my new RPi nowadays. It's like in the old days, in the early of '90s, when I've got my HC-91, the Romanian ZX-Spectrum clone. There is one small difference, though: the HC-91 has…
*nix tip of the day: what Linux version am I using?
How to tell the Linux distro version you are using? Since Linux is not exactly the whole ecosystem of computer programs that you are using on your desktop/server but rather the kernel that allocates the physical hardware resources for the…
Linux ATI radeon KMS
These days I had to install a Gentoo on a Compaq 6820s laptop that comes with a ATI Mobility Radeon X1350 (chipset RV515). Although I followed all the guidelines from the following resources: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon I have encountered an…