Debian on Brabbel

Running “Steam for Linux” on Debian Wheezy

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:20:46 +0000

Steam for Linux is here! At least in a usable beta version. And quite some games are already available for Linux from Steam.

But still installing steam is a little tricky for Linux. So some repackaging is required to get it running. But there is a good guide available (although a little techie) here:

Resolving LVM: Unrecognised LVM device type 259

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:42:22 +0000

Trying to create a md raid1 device for 2 phyiscal 1TB disks failed unexpectedly with a strange (and very undescriptive error, that is only revealed when running with the verbose option (-vvv): Wiping internal VG cache /dev/md0p2: Skipping: Unrecognised LVM device type 259 Device /dev/md0p2 not found (or ignored by filtering).

Debian an Dell Latitude D830

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:16:53 +0000

The Dell Lattitude D830 is a quite capable business notebook. While the notebook itself is not considered high-end it still allows for good configurations. A definite downside is the battery which lasted only for 1 year and had to be replaced with a new battery pack (not part of warrenty of course).

Browsers benchmarked on Linux

Tue, 12 May 2009 23:20:57 +0000

The system itself is a Dell D830 laptop with a nvidia NV135 chip and an Intel Core2 Duo T7500 CPU with 2GB RAM. For actual benchmarking the new futuremark paecekeeper browser benchmark has been put to use.

Setting up your own simple debian repository

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:31:08 +0000

In the process of getting a debian repostiry ready to allow easy installtion with debian’s apt, a small series of posts are going to be created here. So here is the initial post describing a very simple debian repository layout.

Dual-Screen setup with Xorg, RandR1.2 and ATI 9.2 (v8.528) Linux x86_64 drivers

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:25:22 +0000

After seeing that ATI has released again drivers for Linux with a new major version number (and not the scarry .0 behind it) I thought it was time to battle the ATI dragons again. As Debian usually lags behind on the proprietary ATI stuff (who wonders…) I’m using aain the binary packages provided by ATI.