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the laptop turned out to support 4gb of ram and not just two so i bought some on ebay

thanks for the info.
appears that linux has moved on and this laptop wont be of much use anymore.
thats too bad.
it still works and has a very nice lcd display.
i bought a ssd for it. maybe that will help.

laptop is dell inspiron e1705.
duo core 2.36ghz
2gb of ram

cpus max out at 85% a lot.
any ideas on reducing usage?
I turned off all desktop effects
mem usage is only about 700mb out of 2gb
video is i915 and is using genuine intel driver, not vesa

I have been using a radeon pro duo with 2 gpus for a while. However, I could only use 1 gpu in passthrough. Well, here is the fix to get both working: I had to change my lines from: -device vfio-pci,host=0c:00.0,bus=root_port1,addr=00.0,multifunction=on,x-vga=on \ -device vfio-pci,host=0c:00.1,bus=r...

Thanks for mentioning ryzen. I switched to amd threadripper and have had various issues. I had to switch from using the -cpu host to using -cpu EPYC to resolve some windows 10 updates issues (thread exception unhandled). Turned out windows 10 was an upgrade from windows 7 and that was causing all th...

Issue with cd eject resolved. I am on the qemu mailing list and the guys on there solved it for me. First, list out the scsi dev node associated with your burner (you might have to install lsscsi): >lsscsi -g [0:0:0:0] disk ATA ST2000LM003 HN-M 0006 /dev/sda /dev/sg0 [4:0:0:0] disk ATA ST4000LM024-2...

I built this so that I could have two video cards and run two OSs at the same time efficiently. Overall cost was $3000 My parts list: Antec High Current Pro HCP-1300 PLATINUM 1300W ATX 12V Power Supply PSU AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper 2920X 12-Core, 24-Thread StormShield cpu liquid cooler with 2 f...

I wish to add a physical blueray drive to my existing virtual machine script. I need help forming the appropriate line. It is mounted in linux to /dev/sr0. I do use redhat virtual i/o. I used the el cheapo method of -cdrom /dev/sr0, but everytime I eject and insert a new cd I have to reboot windows ...

Sorry, I had two different posts for two different PCs. The one was for the msi gt70 laptop I have used for 5 years. Basically, the vga 15 pin out was disabled when doing qemu passthrough. I was using the laptop screen for linux and the display port for qemu. I wanted to have the laptop screen appea...

p.s. I solved my need for vga arbitration. It was as simple as switching from uefi mode to uefi with csm in my bios. The hardware issue I had went away. Basically, my vga 15 pin port was disabled when using nomodeset on boot. No i915 driver...no vga port signal. Switching to uefi with csm kept the v...

Hey Powerhouse.

I have built a new PC, full amd threadripper 2nd gen.
My video card is the Radeon Duo Pro R9 Fury X nano series.
It has two gpus.

Is it possible to hold a gpu for vfio in a card with two gpus?
So far no success.

Thanks

Powerhouse,

I want to install the i915 vga arbiter patch.
I am running linux mint 19.1.
What is the quickest way to get a kernel installed that has this?
I am willing to compile, but so far internet instructions on doing this fail at the patch stage.
Thanks

thanks for the pcloud link.
unfortunately i do not store my personal files on corporate servers.
they wouldn't be personal anymore.
the cloud is a lie.

i need to replace libimobiledevice with the latest github copy.
i need to access my photos on my ipod.
ios 11.2.6
this package seem to interfere with the github copy.

I want to uninstall a package from mint 19. However apt wants to uninstall cinnamon and ten other apps also, for no apparent reason. I have known about this bug for a while but now i need to get rid of a particular package. Period. Anyone found a solution for this yet? sudo apt remove libimobiledevi...

i have informed my facebook users of the change.

my facebook page is "linux mint cinnamon"
we provide excellent support to mint users.

worked. no need to uncheck launch in terminal.
cannot uncheck that anyways without recreating the icon.

I use an icon for raid status in case of a raid recovery:

watch cat /proc/mdstat

Does not work from the desktop anymore.
I did recreate it and added it to the main menu.
It will launch from the main menu, just not the desktop.

the fix for the new launcher works.
no real solution for launching shell commands though.
nemo 3.04 works, nemo 3.06 does not.

I cannot launch icons that run shell commands.
i cannot create a new launcher.

others on my facebook page report the same.