Configuration

Sound

After installation, the sound is muted. First check, whether the hardware is recognized with 

lspci -v

Afterwards, unmute all surround channels in alsamixer and exit & save with <esc>. 

alsamixer

Permanent access to network drives

Install the Samba Filesystem: 

apt-get install smbfs

To manually mount a samba share: 

mount -t smbfs -o username=<username> //<servername>/<sharename> /mnt/point/

To have samba share mounted during boot, edit fstab: 

mkdir /mnt/<sharename>
vim /etc/fstab
//<servername>/<sharename> /mnt/<sharename> smbfs username=<username>,password=<pwd> 0 0

Fix splash screen after installing nvidia proprietary drivers

Fix default splash screen and delayed loading of the splash: 

echo FRAMEBUFFER=y >> /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
update-initramfs -u

Enable hires grafics mode: 

vim /etc/default/grub

On line #18, uncomment (uncomment = remove the “#” in front of the line “#GRUB_GFXMODE=640×480” and change the resolution to whatever you want. Here is how it should look: 

GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768

Edit the /etc/grub.d/00_header file: 

vim /etc/grub.d/00_header

And find the following line: “gfxmode=${GRUB_GFXMODE}” (it’s line 103 on my computer) and under it, paste this: 

set gfxpayload=keep

Update Grub2: 

update-grub

Config network interfaces

There are 2 NICs on the motherboard, both sharing the same MAC address. The first one is used for the host and the second one is used for the host and as a bridge for the VirtualBox guest. /etc/network/interfaces must be entered as follows: 

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
/etc/init.d/networking restart