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Sound issues have been a common problem in Linux and Ubuntu in particular. Recently, Linux has updated its kernel and fixes the sound problem in many machines. However that fix seems to also bring other problems to many other machines (which used to work perfectly before that). Mine is one of them. My laptop (Asus G50VT-X5) had never had any problem with audio when using Ubuntu prior to 9.04. Afterward, after several updates, there has never been any sound coming from my headphone jack.

Fortunately, someone has told me about a way to fix the problem. You should try this if you have the same sound issue as mine.

• Go to this address http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/audio_intel_hda#acer then find your laptop series, then look at the method on the right. It should be something like options snd-hda-intel model=…
• Run Terminal, type gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
• Add the line options… to the end of the file alsa-base.conf
• Save and restart

For example, my laptop is Asus G50VT-X5, so I tried to find in Asus section. There is an entry G50V there, so my method is options snd-hda-intel model=m51va position_fix=0. After that I added that line to the end of the file alsa-base.conf and saved.

This method will not solve all kind of sound problem in Ubuntu, but probably will be helpful for some. I think if you have a sound issue with your Ubuntu, especially as in my case – no sound from headphone jack, you should give it a try. Leave a comment below if it’s working for you.

Oh, before I forget, thanks to KinoGen in Ubuntu-VN.org for the help

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What we have here today is the Elonex eTouch 700ET 7″ Android Tablet, one of the cheapest tablets that you can get. You can buy this one in Amazon or eBay for only about £70 or £80. I know that there are even some cheaper ones, namely ePad or aPad, but this one is different. This comes from Elonex, a famous brand in eReaders and Tablets, unlike the other noname brands.

From the outside,this one surely looks nice. In fact it looks a lot like the infamous you-know-what tablet. Yes, I’m talking about the iPad. Everything, from the color to the curve and button design…, all resembles the iPad except for the plastic back cover and the smaller 7″ screen. It comes with a big box with almost nothing inside. There is also a screen protector saying “Welcome to a world of wireless internet, music, video and apps at your fingertips”. Let’s memorize this, shall we?

Here is the specification of the devices:

• 7 inch resistive touchscreen with 800×400 resolution
• LNX Code 9 Processor with 128MB RAM
• Google Android 1.6 OS
• 2GB Flash Memory1x Micro SD slot
• Wi-Fi enabled
• Li-on battery with 3.5 hours of active battery life
• 1x USB 2.0 port
• 1x Speaker jack
• Weight 0.7 lbs

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Hi there. Here is another review for you. If you remember my iRiver Cover Story Touch review, you should know how great it is. (If you don’t remember or you don’t even know about it yet, you can always view it here) The iRiver Cover Story is a small, light weight and compact ebook reading device featuring a 8 level contrast e-ink touch screen. Although its display quality is far worse than most eReaders out there, it is packed with many great and unique features. For example you can reflow the pdf files so you can read pdf files just like a normal ebook in EPUB format. Or you can choose to zoom only a specific region of the pdf file, so you can cut out all of the unneccesary white margins, therefore make the text larger and easier to read. Or you can read comics or manga directly from the zip files without any conversion at all. You can even read doc/ppt files. Or you can take note in your ebook and view that later, or draw something or making note… all thanks to the touch screen. For those who don’t really care about the display quality, the iRiver Cover Story is such a great device, but for those who care, then it might be a problem, er.. thanks to the touch screen. And if someone don’t really need touch funcionalities and considering getting this or the famous Amazon Kindle, that could be a hard choice.

Fortunately, for people I mentioned above, I have another choice for you, the iRiver Story (the non-touch version). Here comes the unboxing and the review will follow shortly after that

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My Sony Ericsson X10 mini running Android 2.2 Froyo using REMIX10 custom ROM by antonio89drop.

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a great game, there is no doubt about that. It stands out even among the vast amount of games on PC and consoles. For those who don’t know, it is a multiplayer class-based FPS with good graphics and creative gameplay. If you are a fan of the original Quake, you will be glad to play the side of Strogg, using alien weapons and vehicle. A greater thing is, you can buy this game pretty cheap nowadays. There is also a chance that this game will go free and even open source, as in tradition of id Software. If you are a Linux user, you should know that this game also has a native version for Linux. So what will you say? Is that enough to make it becomes the best game on Linux yet?

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Sometimes you want your Ubuntu to auto-mount your Windows partition at start-up time. By doing so, you may have some advantages. For example, you can create a link from your data partition and put it into your Home folder. The link will act like any normal folder so you can easily managing your data.

To do that, simply running the following command

sudo pysdm

and then choose the device you want to auto-mount at start-up time. You can choose a mount point, type a command in the Options box, or you can click on Assistant and choose the option visually.

There are some things would be nice if you know:

• By default, there is an option “ro“, which means read-only. If you want to enable read and write, change this to “rw“. Disable the option “Mount file system in read-only mode” doesn’t seem to be of much help.
• Enable “Owner user of the file system” and type 1000 in the box on the right to enable to move files to trash. An alternative way is add an option “uid=1000″ in the Option textbox.

That’s pretty simple huh? Actually several years ago I had to sudo gedit etc/fstab to modify it, but it’s much easier this way. If you have any question just leave the comment below, I hope I will be able to answer it.

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