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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT Drivers on Debian 12

So we all know that Debian lags behind and AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT was release after Debian 12 release. So it would be expected that there is no drivers for this new GPU on …

08 Nov 2023

Macro keyboard, Using a micro computer for second monitor - part 3

USB Switch and Barrier works great. But some times you just need to do some quick change, like volume or play/pause or next song etc. To not interrupt my current workflow …

09 Oct 2023

USB Switch, Using a micro computer for second monitor - part 2

Barrier is a great software to control your second computer as a secondary monitor. But when you are playing some games the software does not capture the mouse because …

07 Jun 2023

Using a micro computer for second monitor

I only use my second monitor for a webbrowser playing some video on youtube. But I have always been annoyed when the video or music stops because my tinkering forces me …

02 Jun 2023

Debian SID, Fix broken graphics output with GPU passthrough

I realized I had no graphics output before Windows has loaded in my virtual machine with GPU passthrough. Or if I was using a FreeBSD/Linux VM I had no graphics until …

13 Jan 2022

Restrict Docker network ranges

So I have had some issues where some of my Docker images have been created with a network of 192.168.16.x. And I have my VLAN for WIFI is running on 192.168.20.x. This is …

06 Nov 2021

Dual NVIDIA GPU with passthrough on Debian

I have a brand new Gigabyte x570 Aorus Pro, this motherboard has super awesome iommu groups. Finally can I use both my NVME drives and two GPUs. My old Ryzen 5 3600 cpu …

01 Nov 2021

Installing Debian Sid and Xanmod-cacule kernel

I have been running Manjaro Mate for a while, mostly because I had a need to try some Arch based distro. It was nice, but at the moment I like Debian more. So I’m …

27 Aug 2021

Debian 10 using remote syslog server

I have a central logsever, my Graylog server I wrote about earlier. I have no idea how to correctly use Graylog yet. But I do know I need some data, so I went through all …

28 May 2021

Setup Graylog as central syslog server

I was searching for information about running a local syslog server in my network when I stumbled on Graylog. I’m currently running an ElastiFlow server with …

10 Dec 2020

Debian mount NFS share

Another cheat sheet, this one is for mounting NFS shares on boot in Debian 10. First we need to install nfs-common $ sudo apt install nfs-common and then add the NFS …

07 Oct 2020

Isolating CPU cores from VM host

It is possible to isolate the CPU cores/threads from the Host OS, so it will not use those cores/threads for anything. This is done by using the isolcpus paramater to the …

03 Oct 2020

Activate hugepages to use with libvirt

Hugepages is a good way to improve performance on virtual machines, as it will pre-allocate lots of RAM dedicated for use by libvirt/qemu, or something else that can use …

18 Sep 2020

Install Docker and docker-compose on Debian 10

Docker is awesome to quickly get a service up an running. Installing Docker on Debian 10 is not just apt-get install docker There is an official guide over at …

30 Aug 2020

Debian 10 static IP

Cheat sheet to set a static IP address on Debian, just because I can’t remember how to do it. By default Debian use dhcp, so we need to edit /etc/network/interfaces …

30 Aug 2020

Gaming on Debian, Lutris and Steam

Most people already know about Steam, Lutris is a similar frontend for installing and running mostly Windows games on Linux through Wine. It’s pretty easy to …

26 Aug 2020

Game streaming server (part 4 of Debian as type 1 hypervisor)

Using my Windows VM to act as a game streaming server, both Geforce Experience and Steam. Well I have already tried to game on Linux and for me it works perfectly, I have …

18 Aug 2020

Change username for a Linux user

This is how I change my login username for my Linux (Debian) machine. First I log out to make sure no processes are running for that user, then I log in as root. Then …

13 Aug 2020

Install Nvidia drivers for Debian 10

This is just a short how to for installing Nvidia drivers on Debian 10, including the i386 packages needed for Lutris and/or Steam gaming. First enable i386 architecture …

11 Aug 2020

Install Debian VM (part 3 of Debian as type 1 hypervisor)

To make the Debian host OS acting like a type 1 hypervisor, the desktop OS must run as a virtual machine too. So the second GPU will be passthrough to the second virtual …

09 Aug 2020

Installing Windows VM and passthrough GPU (part 2 of Debian as type 1 hypervisor)

Now we are ready to install our first virtual machine. But first we need something to install from. You can download the ISO directly from Microsoft these days, just make …

05 Aug 2020

Debian as type 1 hypervisor for gaming, part 1

This is my notes of how I got a Gaming VM up and running on Debian. And I just don’t want to do stuff like others, so I am going to run a second VM for my Linux …

05 Aug 2020