I've installed debian Wheezy on new hardware. The case fans are Noctua NF-R8 PWM and the CPU cooler is Cooler Master Hyper EVO 212. The motherboard is Gigabyte H97-D3H. Operating system is Debian Wheezy. In BIOS I see that CPU fan speed is 1123 rpm, case fan 1 is 1048 rpm, fan 2 is 1117 rpm. I do...

On a new machine I installed a SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium card. I also did # modprobe snd-ctxfi, and # lsmod | grep ctxfi shows: snd_ctxfi 0 using it are sound_pcm, dec_hdmi, sound_page_alloc, snd. Dmesg has line: "snd_ctxfi ... setting latency timer to 64" But no reference to the Crative...

I try to connect a new Samsung S23C350H display via a Mac HDMI adapter cable to a MacBookAir notebook. I previously had this notebook connected without problems via a DVI adapter to a different model Samsung display. All I see on this display after it checks for Analog/HDMI connections is "Check...

Hello. It looks like my very old 19" Samsung SyncMaster 931BF monitor is dying since it has problems turning on (black screens, flickers to black and display fast, etc.) on multiple desktop computers. It is time to find a replacement. -22" horizontal width max(imum) due to my limited desk...

I am installing Debian Jessie from netinst on a USB key. I went to BIOS and made the key first boot priority, but made a BIG mistake and failed to disable UEFI Secure boot (UEFI is new to me). As the result, when I now power the machine on, I can only do one thing, which is to register with...

I need to disable trackpad on a Thinkpad x250. Fn+F8 does not bring up a menu for disabling. Perhaps Debian Sid does not support that function. I disabled the trackpad in BIOS, but that had no effect. This I don't understand.

I have one of the popular ASUS 24X RW CD drives that has probably died. I'll replace it when I can afford to bring my machine down, but meanwhile I would appreciate knowing the typical symptoms of a CD drive mechanical failure and what troubleshooting procedures would detect a mechanically failing...