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How to Enable Nvidia CUDA for Davinci Resolve on Linux

2019-08-27 1 min read Linux Video Editor
This post describes how to fix the error No OpenCL Hardware Acceleration Detected on Linux. First of all make sure that latest NVidia drivers, nvidia-modules, nvidia-kernels are installed for the latest driver version. For Ubuntu 19.04, nvidia 418 drivers and linux kernel 5.0.0-25 the terminal command will look like: sudo apt install nvidia-kernel-common-418 nvidia-dkms-418 linux-modules-nvidia-418-5.0.0-25-generic Install NVidia Cuda toolkit To install nvidia cuda toolkit use the following: sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit Do Logout after successfull toolkit installation. Continue reading

Tuxguitar No Sound

2019-06-21 1 min read
In case if there is no sound in TuxGuitar in linux, do the following 1 Install package tuxguitar-jsa sudo apt install tuxguitar-jsa 2 Update MIDI port into TuxGuitar settings Go to Tools -> Settings. A new window with TexGuitar configs will be opened. Find Sound section and change MIDI port to Gervill: Close Settings window and verify everything works fine.

Wasteland 2 Director's Cut: Can't save or enter at Ranger Citadel under Linux

2019-01-18 1 min read Linux Games Alexey Bogdanov
The Linux version of Wasteland 2: Director's Cut has a weird bug which doesn’t allow either to save or enter (sometimes) into Ranger Citadel location. This is an engine-level issue in the used Unity version: Unity loads into memory multiple copies of the sames game files. To fix this issue we need to update permissions for max open file limits in Linux. Open /etc/security/limits.conf file as root user (or using sudo) and add the following 2 lines at the end of the file: Continue reading

Visual Studio Code: How to enable fonts ligatures in Ubuntu

2019-01-10 1 min read Linux Alexey Bogdanov
Visual Code supports fonts ligatures out of the box. But also an appropriate font with ligatures support is required. Fira Code is one of such fonts. Fira Code can be used not only in Visual Studio Code but also in other editors and IDE (e.g. Intellij Idea). First of all we need to install Fira Code. For Ubuntu based distributions it’s better to install font from official repositories. (With other installations ligatures didn’t work for me). Continue reading

How to change font size in Skype for Linux

2018-12-20 1 min read Linux Alexey Bogdanov
Skype for Linux doesn’t scale fonts well on monitor with high DPI out of the box. Below I provide 2 solutions how to increase font size. Increase Electron’s fonts Because Skype for Linux uses Electron under the hood, which is just a web browser, we can increase font by using Ctrl + Shift + =. Or via menu: Using such approach menu will still have a small font. Scale Skype window Another approach is to scale the whole Skype window. Continue reading
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