Hi, first post here!
I'm a part-time Linux user, with experience on Mandrake and Fedora.
After installing ubuntu 8.10, I find that my computer is very quiet,
even when I don't want it to be! The only sound I can get is the beep
when the arrow keys reach a limit, such as scrolling to the end of a
list, or the end of a command line.
The master volume is high, I have permission to Use Audio Devices,
nothing is muted, am I missing something basic??? I've been to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems> and lots of links from
there. Learned a lot, accomplished little. :)
I can turn off the beep (alert) in Sound Preferences, but I can't turn
on other sounds, (Rhythmbox, youtube, etc.) Some info I picked up is
shown below. I wasn't clear from checking
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main
<http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main> whether my
sound card is supported by ALSA. The Intel soundcard list includes ESB2,
but nothing else remotely like 631xESB/632xESB. If that's the case, am I
screwed?
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
lspci -v
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 09)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01c0
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at dfffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
/proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xdfffc000 irq 16
-Rich
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A couple of things from last night's meeting / dinner that might
interest everybody:
[IRC]
I know people have mentioned it before but WLUG has an irc channel.
We're on freenode and it's #wlug-ma. IRC stands for Internet Relay chat
and is used for sync communication between people. Check out this
wikipedia link [1] for more info. get a copy of Xchat (irc client) and
when you open xchat it should prompt you for a server. Click freenode.
Next it may ask you for a channel to join, type in #wlug-ma. If it
doesn't ask for a channel to join, type "/join #wlug-ma" in the command
bar at the bottom.
[PGP Keys]
Some people mentioned that their pgp keys are expiring in roughly 2
months so we need to have a keysigning again. If your key is expiring
soon I would suggest generating a new key now and signing your new key
with your old key. This will allow the web of trust to extend to your
new key.
For generating new keys, there are a few schools of thought. Some
people prefer to have their master key be unlimited and generate new
subkeys every so often (1/year, etc). This way signatures go to the
master key but the subkeys can always be revoked if there's a problem.
Others generate a key pair with a 3-5 year expiration and just get
signatures again as they need them. The thing to keep in mind is how
possible is it that my key will be cracked [expiration] years from now
given technology.
I think the current plan is to have the key signing in two months
(please correct me if I'm wrong) so I'll be sending more stuff out as it
gets closer.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC
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Eric Martin
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HI everybody,
Our monthly WLUG meeting will be held this coming Thursday, Feb 19th, at
7:00 PM in the Access Grid room on the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA.
We don't have a specific topic for this meeting unless we get a
volunteer from the audience between now and the meeting time.
As always, light refreshments will be available at the meeting, and
we'll go out for pizza afterwards.
See ya there!
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org)
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393)
Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ
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A couple of WLUG members had been interested in GIMP a few months
back. A presentation I gave to the group last Fall may have been
effective that it could have been, since we couldn't get the big
monitors working in the meeting room.
But now while looking for one piece of info, I came across this in
article Linux Haxor: "50 Tutorials To Get You Started With Gimp."
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/02/09/50-tutorials-to-get-you-started-with-g…
Some of these tutorials seem to be concerned with specific special
effects, but others, such as "Using and Manipulating Layers with Gimp"
and "Retouching hair and eye (video)" might be of interest to
non-artist persons, and to those who want to work with photos they
have uploaded from digital camera.
Enjoy,
Liz J
Suffering from "temporary" (winter) shrinkage,
Tux looks a bit worried in his "new" computer room.....
OK so he's homeless and I merely bought him a bottle and
a limited air supply with the other derelicts in my man-cave...
( ! warning, no disturbing images, 3 boring pix at.... )
http://dmildram.jalbum.net/Server+DesktopClutter/index.html
I picked one of these up at Circuit City last week and am looking to speed it up where ever possible. (Reviewed below).
It has a normal SATA II drive in it and I know an SSD drive would significantly speed it up, but don't want to spend any more $ on it.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/storage/review/2008/05/08/OCZ-64GB-SATA-II-SS… has pretty graphs to compare.
I weaseled a RAM upgrade out of my hard ware guy so I have 1.5gigs in it now (max'd).
I ran speed tests between booting off the SATA II drive and the same install via USB 2.0 thumb drive and boot times were around 50 seconds for either.
I know there are SSD ExpressCards for cheap (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820191057) but I read that the ExpressCards are really just USB 2.0 speeds anyway so I wouldn't see any difference from my thumb drive test.
Short of compiling my own kernel (which I never can seem to do right), any other advise on how to speed up a netbook's boot time?
I will say once booted, everything runs pretty well, though I'm sure I wouldn't mind more speed then, too!
grazie!
Mike
Review:
Stopped in to Circuit City today and (impulsively?) bought a Lenovo IdeaPad S10.
I've been looking for something to waste my money on/replace the Dell I
bought that I ended up not liking and turning over to my wife, so it
wasn't extremely impulsive, just a little impulsive.
Anyway, it was 10% of the normal price, which brought it down to $370.
Not a great deal at that price since online it is like $350 or so, but
the one I got has twice as much RAM and hard drive space as online
numbers, plus no shipping.
Specs:
Intel Atom N270 1.6ghz CPU (Intel has returned to multi-threading)
10.2 inch screen
1GIG RAM
160Gig SATA II Hard drive
Wired/Wireless NIC cards
3 Cell Lithium-Ion
2.64lbs
No CDROM (not a big deal as I have a Lenovo USB CDROM drive anyway)
The size: possibly the perfect size...small, light weight without being
tiny. 10.2 inch 1024x600 screen and not an impossibly tiny keyboard
(though obviously not full sized). It is about the size of a larger
hard cover book.
The OS: Comes with Windows XP and it ran very well...applications
opened fast, web surfing was responsive and I could open several apps
at once without much hit to performance.
After 27 different questions about my loyalty to Bill Gates, I decided it was time to upgrade.
Concerned that the new hardware may have issues with older versions of
Linux, I jumped right into an as-yet-to-be released version of Ubuntu
(9.04).
Booted right up, answered a couple questions and installed like a
champ...saw the disk, the RAM, the wireless card, everything...during
the install.
Upon reboot into Linux though, nothing...it just wouldn't boot. "No OS found".
I thought my partitioning might be screwing me up, so I let the installer pick, but to no avail.
I booted off live CD's, but when I mounted and chroot'd into my install, the install didn't even see my /dev/sda.
At one point I finally got to a grub > boot, but still wouldn't boot to the OS.
I tried a Debian 4.0 install, but that didn't see either the wired or wireless nics.
Similar to the Ubuntu, Fedora 10 installed, but would never boot.
So I tried a Ubuntu 8.10 install and everything was fine! Installed
with my partitions (/boot, /, /home and swap) and all is well in the
world.
Wired, wireless, SATA, screen resolution....everything works straight from the install.
I'm still testing and upgrading but over all this is a great netbook
and takes to Ubuntu Linux straight away, and for less than $400 a great
addition to my daily commute.
