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
(Source: http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=4504)
Fixing skype video required [...]
I installed scribefire on conkeror. Blogging from it. To start scribefire, you need to [...]
Conkeror is a Firefox-based browser that adds emacs-style keyboard functionality to the browser. It is great for those who like using the keyboard (and hate the mouse). Try it.
Here is an interesting article on Conkeror browser.
I wish they thought of a better name though. Conkeror sounds too similar [...]
On my laptop, I use mutt with postfix for sending e-mails, and fetchmail for receiving them. Postfix is setup to relay mails through gmail. I am the only user on the computer and all mails originating from the computer are sent from my account.
A limitation of the setup was that it sent e-mail only from a [...]
Debian does not yet have a package for Mysql Workbench in its repositories. The website of Mysql Workbench has an ubuntu package but it does not directly install in debian. To install it on debian, you need to separately install all the dependencies.
The following steps will take you through the process of installation. Please note that [...]
Since I use emacs for writing my mails, I use auto-fill to wrap the text at a specified width. While this is good for mails, it is not so good for a lot of other things. I would like emacs to auto-fill only mutt buffers. That is how my .emacs is setup. Or so I think. [...]
Setting up weblogger to shift to the new location of this blog was
really easy.
M-x weblogger-setup-weblog RET was all that was required to set it up.
M-x weblogger-start-entry starts a new entry. C-x C-s [...]
My university uses cyberoam software for regulating internet use. It requires one to log into an account using a browser or a client software. Using the browser is a pain because one has to keep the window used for authentication open throughout the session. If you close it by mistake, cyberoam throws you out and you [...]
Discover your neighboring machines » Linux by Examples
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I have been looking for a good solution for pretty printing from
mutt. The best solution suggested is muttprint. The problem, however,
is that muttprint uses the latex system to print. I am not a latex
user and I do not want to install the entire latex system on my
machine just to print e-mails.
There are two other alternatives that [...]
