As Linux getting more user friendly, game developers are adding more support thanks to Steam. The performance of graphics processing units (GPUs) mainly depends on drivers. Ubuntu by default use open source video driver Nouveau which has limited support and [...]
HARDWARE
How to Get CPU Temperature on Ubuntu Linux
Hardware overheating often creates a bad performance of your system. Monitoring hardware temperature can help you diagnose any CPU overheating problems of the system. The source of laptop overheating normally comes from extensive CPU, GPU (video cards), or hard disk [...]
How to Install Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu 18.04
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the latest Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop from the terminal. It may happen that the graphics drivers included in Ubuntu for your graphics card are not fully adapted. In [...]
How to Remind Unplug a Charging Laptop on Arch Linux
You are always worried about over-charging your laptop when too busy on projects that you can't keep checking battery percentage?. It is always recommended to keep battery power between 40% and 80% to prolong its lifespan. There is no sure solution available to help [...]
How to Install NVIDIA Drivers using Debian Repository
Nvidia Corporation is an American technology company which specializes at designing graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming, cryptocurrency and a system on a chip unit (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. For those in possession of PC [...]
How to Install and Use TLP on Linux Laptop
Squeezing in a few hours in your Linux PC battery life may be what it takes to hit that deadline and submit your project or assignment on time. And that is where TLP comes in. TLP is a power management [...]
GSmartControl - A GUI Tool to Check HDD/SSD Health on Linux
GSmartControl is a GUI alternative for smartctl, a tool for controlling SMART data on hard disk drives and solid state drives. With this software, you can check the SMART data in order to determine its health. It also allows you [...]
How to Develop and Control of Arduino Systems on Linux
Today we are going to learn how to install Arduino IDE on Linux, some of basic features to help you get started, build and upload you programs to the Arduino board, create a basic unix-like command interface based on Arduino's [...]
How to Monitor Access Point Signal Strength with wifi-linux
As a python geek I love exploring new python tools on github that target the linux users. Today I discovered a simple application written in python programming language that can be used to monitor access point signal strength. I have [...]
Check Hardware Infomation Using HardInfo on Ubuntu Linux
HardInfo is a system profiler and benchmark tool used in Linux to check hardware information. HardInfo parses some files in /proc and displays their information in a graphical window. You may also check CPU temperature using this tool. In this tutorial [...]
How to Fix/Repair Badblocks in Linux
The badblocks in a storage device are the portions of the device that are not readable for some reason. These badblocks can be recovered if we are able to reach the exact location of that block. The SMART technology built [...]
Input/Output Error : Bad Blocks - How to Restart Linux
This article I am trying to explain how to deal with "Input/output error " when you initiate any commands in Linux. I have pointed out some examples that report a similar error. # du -bash: /usr/bin/du: Input/output error # mkdir [...]
How to Display Linux Hardware Info via Command Line
When a user works on a Linux system, in some cases, the user needs to know the information about the hardware under the operating system. This helps us to install compatible applications and utilities which adapt to hardware components of [...]
7 Ways to Display Hardware Information using Dmidecode
Dmidecode command reads the system DMI (Desktop Management Interface) table to display hardware and BIOS information of the server. The output of the dmidecode contains several records from the DMI table. This table contains a description of the systems hardware [...]