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Microphone and Webcam issues on Sony Vaio CW1BGN

A friend had ubuntu 10.04 running on Sony Vaio CW1BGN. There were two problems that needed to be fixed.

1. The microphone was not working.2. The webcam was working in applications like cheese but not in skype

Fixing the microphone required the following to be written in /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf

options snd slots=snd-hda-inteloptions snd-hda-intel model=toshiba-s06alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

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Steps to manually mount a USB flash drive in GNU/Linux

For students who have been having problems with this. See the following:http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/03/steps-to-manually-mount-usb-flash-drive.html

Please read the commands carefully. The user id and group id in the command will have to be replaced by your uid and gid. You can know your uid and gid by using the following command.

cat /etc/passwd | grep $USER

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Ubuntu Edgy Eft

Ubuntu released its new version 6.10 yesterday, and I have already migrated. All well, so far. V.