Nex's Journal

New Location

2009-07-28T15:24:00.000-07:00

Hola!

Its been a very long time since I've posted here. Soon after I started this blog, I found a better way to handle my needs of tracking and storing my experiences in the form of a microWiki and never left a message about it on my blog. Site meteres continue to report that people still find their way to this blog though, and I felt like I should leave a note about this projects new home.

You can now find my latest how-to's and such at my micro Wiki: http://digamma-chi.tiddlyspot.com

Where I've expanded out from just Ubuntu/Linux related notes into math and science ones as well. Hope to see you there ^^

PulseAudio

2008-05-21T09:02:00.000-07:00

This is a how-to/tips to getting PulseAudio working in Kubuntu 8.04.
I, like a lot of people, had issues with PulseAudio (PA) in our new flavor of Ubuntu. Though I had sound, I could not get the Volume Manger which allows you to adjust the volume of specific streams to work. My error specifically was a general "Connection Refused" so, here's what I did.
The following step may not be nessearry, I have isolated the problem, but only after I followed the instructions here. If you want to try to get PA working without making the configuration edit or downloads in the following post, got to Step2, but imo, I suggest following the link first. YMMV.

Step 1:
The (almost) Perfect Pulse Audio Setup
This link leads you to a Ubuntu Forums post. I highly suggest downloading the packages listed here. One note: the How-to talks about editting /etc/asound.conf - this file didn't exist for me, but I found out its ok to just go ahead and create it.

Step 2:
This is one of those rare times when you have restart your computer in Linux, and I mean your whole system.. not just your GUI. Go ahead and do so, and once you're logged back in before you play any sound or music open up a console session and type in

pulseaudio -D

PA should restart, and voilà, you should be able to start the Volume Manger and control your streams no problem. Lastly, to make the command "pulseaudio -D" run at start up, every start up, navigate to ~/.kde/Autostart in terminal, and type in

sudo nano pulseaudio

then put this into the text file:

#!/bin/bash
pulseaudio -D

save and quit

Welcome

2008-04-27T03:01:00.000-07:00

Hello, and welcome to my 'journal'. ^^

I made this blog as a place for me to write down all the things I learn about Linux as I... well... learn! On a whim one very very late night, I decided I was bored with my computer and wanted a new challenge. I installed Ubuntu 6.10 and it was love at first site. I have since been using Ubuntu as my exclusive OS since the release of 7.10

My aim is to make easy to understand and follow How-To's based on the challenges I myself go through - in everything from ftpD's to pendrives to eye-candy. Anyone who knows me, knows how much I loath lexicon* so fear not -- you wont have to Google define:[word] anything here that goes by a more intuitive name.

On a last note, feel free to leave any questions or comments on the blog; especially any that would make a how-to even richer in content.

I hope you enjoy!