Changing the default sound card in Kubuntu

After adding a PCI soundcard to my machine for the purposes of having a gameport my Kubuntu 7.04 install wasn’t always choosing to use the on-board Intel chip for sound meaning I could near nothing. The solution seems to be the following

sudo asoundconf list

Names of available sound cards: au8830 Intel

sudo asoundconf set-default-card [...]

May 2nd, 2007 | Category: Linux, Quick Solutions | 3 comments

Upgrading to Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Review

Doing an OS upgrade is often troublesome. It is better to back up your data and do a clean install. Most of us don’t for various reasons. I always try upgrades before clean installs – it’s probably a form of self abuse.

This version of Kubuntu has a shiny new upgrade wizard which made this [...]

April 25th, 2007 | Category: Linux, Operating Systems, Reviews | Leave a comment

Giving up Windows for work

Since finally getting round to installing OpenSuse 10.2 on my laptop, I’m going to be trying to live without MS Operating systems on the desktop during working hours. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while. The reasons are mainly stability, transparency of errors when they do occur and ease of upgrading / [...]

April 15th, 2007 | Tags: , | Category: Linux, Operating Systems | Leave a comment

Hooray for OpenSuse?

I’m typing this from my Dell M1210 laptop after finally installing OpenSuse 10.2 on it. Not everything works (the webcam may need a little work) but the things that really ought to work out of the box do

Wireless (WPA-PSK) Flash (with sound) DNS resolving at full speed thanks to the installer option to disable [...]

April 13th, 2007 | Category: Linux, Operating Systems | Leave a comment
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