Here’s how to simply forward sound from one computer to another in Ubuntu. First, install paprefs: 1sudo apt-get install paprefs Start it by executing paprefs in a terminal. If every checkbox is grayed out, you have to make a symlink to the PulseAudio modules directory as paprefs searches for the modules in the wrong place: […]

Do you have problems running OpenGL apps under Wine with an Nvidia card and a 64bit Linux? Wine says X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo couldn’t initialize OpenGL? Here’s the fix. – apt-get install ia32-libs, if it’s already installed and you still have problems, move on to the next step – move everything from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu to /usr/lib32 EXCEPT /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib2.0. – […]

You’ll need the package alsa-firmware. Download the latest source from www.alsa-project.org, then run these commands: 12345678tar -xvjf alsa-firmware-1.0.24.1.tar.bz2 cd alsa-firmware-1.0.24.1/ ./configure make sudo make install sudo modprobe -r snd_emu10k1_synth sudo modprobe -r snd_emu10k1 sudo modprobe snd_emu10k1 After that, you should be able to see the card as “SB Audigy” in the Ubuntu sound settings. Use […]

I’ll collect the Ubuntu utilities I find useful in this (continuously updated) post. fslint: finds duplicate files in folders Lookit: captures screenshot and uploads it to FTP/SSH/various image sharing sites. I only configured Capture are to Print. If you want to find out the key binding names for various keys, you can run xev | […]

I got a black screen under Ubuntu when the screensaver got activated, or I switched to console mode with ctrl+alt+1 and back to X with ctrl+alt+7. The cause of the problem is gnome-screensaver, so I uninstalled it, and installed xscreensaver instead. I created a symlink at /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-command which points at /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command. This is needed because […]

Here’s how to start Skype minimized under Linux. Install gdevilspie (it needs python-glade2 also, be sure to install it first), then run it. Add a new rule: 123456789( if ( begin ( matches ( window_name ) "^Skype" ) ) ( begin ( close ) ( println "match" ) ) ) Start devilspie and click on […]

I’ve installed Ubuntu on my shiny new RevoDrive 3 with my custom kernel powered installer CD. I couldn’t make it boot, so I installed a 200mb /boot partition to my other HDD and made that the first boot drive in the BIOS. Maybe I could do this solution but I didn’t want to spend more […]

The current Ubuntu installer disc comes with the Linux kernel 3.0.0, but I’m planning to buy an OCZ RevoDrive 3 which has drivers in the 3.2 kernel. So I upgraded the kernel on the installer disc. Here’s how it’s done.

Here’s how you can use a Leadtek DTV dongle mini USB DVB-T (or any RTL2832 based) adapter under Linux. 1. download and unpack latest v4l-dvb snapshot from http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb to /usr/src/v4l-dvb 2. download the RTL2832U driver and unpack it to /usr/src/v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb

I have an SGS since September and it was often pretty slow, especially when installing/upgrading applications in the Android Market. I’ve found out that the problem is with the RFS file system on the phone. First I updated my phone to Android 2.2 using Kies. This installed the JPH 2.2 firmware. Then I rooted my […]