How to fix possible missing firmware warning during kernel update on Linux Mint

If you are running default kernel with your Ubuntu or Linux Mint installation, you probably won’t face this problem during kernel updates because all packages are coming from the official distribution sources. However, if you like to run the newest Linux kernels and update them using mainline kernel installer, you may get warning possible missing firmware during the installation. Few days ago I got this warning on my Linux Mint 20....

2022-05-18 · 2 min · Boban Acimovic

Firefox audio crackling and popping on Linux Mint

This problem was bugging me for quite a while and today I finally decided to address it. There are lot of advices online to try to run Firefox in safe mode and see if that fixes the problem, so I tried that first but it didn’t help. Safe mode actually just turns off extensions, but in my case it didn’t help. I found out that the easiest way to reproduce the problem was to run YouTube video in one window and after that open another window with eBay....

2021-10-02 · 2 min · Boban Acimovic