skype audio failure in Ubuntu 8.04

I found following work around and it's working!

In the input section of "Multimedia Systems Selector" try switching your input to ALSA and then going into volume control and turning it all the way up. You may have to kill pulseaudio for this to work:

Code:

pulseaudio -k

play quicktime and real media files on Ubuntu

Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc).

Some of these packages include the libdvdcss package from VideoLAN and the external binary codecs package (commonly known as w32codecs) used by MPlayer and xine.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Ubuntu 8.04

had a clean install of Ubuntu 8.04 desktop today on my nx8220 laptop. everything went smooth but still have problem with dual display. If I us generic video driver, then I was able to give different resolution setting to my laptop and external monitor but the problem is it show both of the display are overlapping each other, i was not able to make the external monitor as an extension to the laptop display.

Then I enable the ATI driver, things get even worst, startup no display (can be solved), then the external display is only allow to work in clone mode and the resolution is limited to my laptop resolution which is 1280x800.

No choice, I was lazy to debug and just revert to the generic driver, at least i can set the external monitor to 1280x1024.

Install Ruby using apt-get

sudo apt-get install ruby rdoc irb libyaml-ruby libzlib-ruby ri libopenssl-ruby

Install RubyGems manually from source

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/29548/rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
tar xzvf rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
cd rubygems-1.0.1
sudo ruby setup.rb
# This creates /usr/bin/gem1.8, but every guide you find will just use “gem”
# so create a symbolic link
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem
# update rubygems
sudo gem update –system

Install Rails using RubyGems

sudo gem install rails

Ubuntu 7.10 no sound on Dell D630

When I boot up the Ubuntu 7.10, and surprise to know that no sound on Dell D630. I thought Dell is selling their PC/Laptop with Ubuntu, there is be no issue at all. Anyway, I found following fixes. Going to try out later.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gutsy_Intel_HD_Audio_Controller

Ubuntu Dual display

I found following link which may help to solve my dual display problem on nx8220.

http://hobbylobby.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/dual-monitors-in-ubuntu-xorgconf-driver-ati-card/

I'll try out tomorrow.....

Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Effects

Finally, the desktop effect is working on nx8220 based on the guide provided by following link:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=585045

here is the command:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Skip down to the bottom and find the lines like this:

Code:

Section "Extensions"
       Option          "Composite"     "0"
EndSection

it may say "disable" rather than "0". Change the 0 or disable to 1 so it reads:

Code:

Section "Extensions"
       Option          "Composite"     "1"
EndSection

Code:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl

logout and login again.

Code:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager