2nd
September
2009
Well Ubuntu and Skype is a real pain.. No idea why they made it this difficult, but I decided to disable Pulse Audio and now finally, everything seems to work for my purposes. This includes Skype with microphone, Music, movies etc. No complex configurations to fiddle with every time the system restarts.
This guide will help you to kind of disable pulseaudio from starting / avoid pulseaudio to hog the sound hardware. It also solves the problem of every boot, the master channel is turned all the way down and muted.
posted in Linux, Uncategorized |
14th
May
2008
After installing Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04) I was rather happy that it worked at first. However, using the laptop without a mouse was a bit tedious. The problem was that the touchpad would not move the cursor very far, which meant to move it required several strokes.
I finally figured it out and it was quite simple once I found this post that is an old description, but it worked for me. Essentially the problems were:
I wanted to use the TouchPad config within Ubuntu to configure the touchpad
SHM has to be enabled in the xorg.conf for the TouchPad config to work.
I changed my /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follows:
*snip*
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "MinSpeed" "1.0"
Option "MaxSpeed" "1.0"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.3"
EndSection
*snip*
After a quick restart, everything was great. The cursor now moved with a dash of speed!
posted in Linux, Uncategorized |
5th
August
2006
We planned a trip on an old lady. Well she is the only sea going steam boat in Scotland. The entire trip we took, from Glasgow to Bute took quite a few hours. The boat is a remarkable piece of equipment. It was a fantastic day out. Some pictures coming soon!
posted in Uncategorized |
8th
June
2006
Hectic day. Too tired. Crashed. Slept. Not much to ……
posted in Travels, Uncategorized |
26th
March
2006
Well well..
After our trip to Budapest, the wedding finally arrived. Toby and Kirsty planned their wedding near Oban and of course, being March and Scotland, the weather looked really bad. Snow and what else pounded the country for a few days. It did not look like the weather was going to clear. The morning of the wedding broke. It was a fabulous day. Bright, sunny and no wind. The scenery was just perfect. Needless to say, we all had a fantastic time and boy, oh boy, did we have hangovers the next morning. It was a weekend well turned out.
posted in News, Uncategorized |