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 ^^
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
PulseAudio
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
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
then put this into the text file:
save and quit
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
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Welcome
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!
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!
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