Ubuntu

This is my third time having problem installing Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu (14.04). What’s worse is that I could not remember how I fixed them last time. Hope this blog post will prevent me from pulling my hair out for the 4th time. So, I installed Nvidia driver as usual: After it’s finished, I tried to load the module: Well, it turned out that I need to also install another linux-image package: linux-image-extra-3....

As of today, Code Composer Studio (ccs) 6 is only available for 32-bit Linux platform. The good news is that it can be installed on a 64-bit version of Ubuntu and Fedora. In this blog post, I’m going to show a few issues I came across and how to fix them on Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit. Issue 1: After the installation, when I ran the ccs, it produces some warning and error messages then quit....

On Ubuntu distro, if you see the error message in console as the following whenever you run a Gnome-based applications, chances are you had ‘overlay-scrollbar’ package previously installed but now removed. However, the configuration file which came with that package remained on your system. We can verify this with this command: rc : remove but config file still presents. On my Ubuntu desktop, this config file resides at /etc/X11/Xsession.d/81overlay-scrollbar. To correct this problem, we can purge ‘overlay-scrollbar’ package with this command:...

The real tag line for moserial is “a serial terminal for the GNOME desktop”. However, since it’s installed just fine on my KDE desktop, I titled this post as “moserial - a serial terminal for Linux”. (Well, it probably works on servers as well, not just desktop.) So what is this moserial? It’s a terminal which allows you to connect to view or send data to a serial port. For example, a lot of mbed device or micro controllers, such as Arduino, can be configured to send/receive data via serial port....

At my current work place, we use Puppet to manage desktop machines. Recently, I need to prepare an new image based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. To prepare an image, in brief, first thing is to install a fresh Ubuntu on a machine, compile and package lots of applications, and make change to configuration such as look and feels, etc. As mentioned earlier, I use Puppet to manage machine, so I store all customed configuration on the Puppet server....