we bring ideas » Open source http://www.webringideas.com we bring ideas vs web ring ideas Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:02:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Enabling surround sound on Ubuntu 9.04 http://www.webringideas.com/open-source/enable-surround-sound-on-ubuntu-904.html http://www.webringideas.com/open-source/enable-surround-sound-on-ubuntu-904.html#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 07:25:21 +0000 Nishanth http://www.webringideas.com/?p=418 By default ubuntu 9.04 uses PulseAudio which use only 2 channels by default. I am using creative 4.1 speaker system . After installing Ubuntu I realized that only 2 speakers are working . After some googling I enabled the surround sound.

You can find the default configuration in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf.

sudo gedit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf

You can find a commented line ;default-sample-channels=2 in daemon.conf. Uncomment this line(remove ; ) and change this according to your surround system . For me its 4.1 so my entry is like below

 default-sample-channels = 5

If it is 5.1 then entry should be like default-sample-channels= 6

You have to restart pulseaudio( kill the pulseaudio and run it again from run dialog) or restart your machine.

]]> http://www.webringideas.com/open-source/enable-surround-sound-on-ubuntu-904.html/feed Moved to Ubuntu 9.04 from windows XP http://www.webringideas.com/open-source/moved-to-ubuntu-904-from-windows-xp.html http://www.webringideas.com/open-source/moved-to-ubuntu-904-from-windows-xp.html#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 07:23:15 +0000 Nishanth http://www.webringideas.com/?p=404 I am using windows XP since 2003. Last week I got an error and unfortunately it was XP Blue Screen of Death STOP Codes. The error i got was something like ” make sure you have enough disk space” and it looks so funny because I have 120 GB free space :) . Then i decided to move on to open source OS may be I am late but still ok.

Installed Ubuntu 9.04 and without any trouble Ubuntu auto configured almost all my devices. Had some problem in configuring BSNL broad band which i solved yesterday :)

]]> http://www.webringideas.com/open-source/moved-to-ubuntu-904-from-windows-xp.html/feed Configured BSNL broad band in Ubuntu 9.04 http://www.webringideas.com/open-source/configured-bsnl-broad-band-in-ubuntu-904.html http://www.webringideas.com/open-source/configured-bsnl-broad-band-in-ubuntu-904.html#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 06:26:22 +0000 Nishanth http://www.webringideas.com/?p=385 Last couple of days I was trying to connect BSNL broadband in Ubuntu. I followed the instructions from ubuntu forums but all in vain. Finally I manually added the router ip address and gateway in /etc/network/interfaces and it started working :)

I had edited /etc/network/interfaces

sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

and added below lines

iface eth0 inet static
 
	address 192.168.1.2
 
	netmask 255.255.255.0
 
	gateway 192.168.1.1

Hope this may help someone. Move to Ubuntu, it is super cool :)

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