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Skype 2.1 Sound Setup for Ubuntu:Jaunty

October 11th, 2009

I had almost similar problem on Intrpid Ibex, and now faced it on Jaunty to setup sound properly for Skype 2.1. What was the problem? I wasn’t able to hear though receiver was able to hear me clearly. New Skype for Linux 2.1 supports PulseAudio. This is certainly a blessings as PulseAudio is known as a standard sound server. But that was my main problem! In skype sound device option, i had only one option for sound In/Out and that was “PulseAudio server (Local)”. I wanted to get rid of that (PulseAudio) so that i could use ALSA alternatively. Thought that would fix the problem and it did!

So i had 2 options to get rid of PulseAudio, i have to uninstall or stop it to get automatically selected on Skype. Instead of uninstalling i did stop the auto selection…

gedit ~/.pulse/client.conf

#and then set

autospawn = no

save and exit. We are safe from pulseaudio now. And new Skype when it doesn’t get the pulseaudio it uses alsa. Are we done here to get rid of this problem? Not really, if you are using a fresh copy of Jaunty then have a look here and do some important updates/install. Then we are fine .. (well, at least for me it worked)

Let’s have a look at my sound settings from the screenshots. Hope it helps if you are facing same problem like me…..

Some helpful links:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578

http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/ubuntu-904-jaunty-keeping-the-beast-pulseaudio-at-bay/

Some helpful links:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578

http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/ubuntu-904-jaunty-keeping-the-beast-pulseaudio-at-bay/

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Web is My Computer

October 10th, 2009

Day before yesterday, i lost all data from my computer that i saved by last 5/6 years! How? I was using this tool called GParted on Ubuntu to add some free space on existing drive. That wasn’t logical at all, but why i had curiosity? if you can do that in Vista or XP then why can’t you do the same on Linux. There was a solution, that you copy the existing drive to an unallocated space and then partition the original drive and then add the space and later get the files back from where you copied files to. Instead of doing that, unintentionally, i clicked on “partition table” and clicked on “Apply” when it clearly says “this will erase ALL the data from your /dev/sda” drive! I don’t know maybe i was drunk or something….i read it! That was all my fault. No blame to anyone.

Then what happened? My whole drive became “Unallocated” – meaning i broke the whole partition of the HD. I stared at the screen for at least 2 minutes, what? that means i lost all the data? Maybe, if i tried i could have recovered some data…but then waited and i thought what i lost from my computer…..

I had, important documents, my projects! tools, Music, tutorials etc….

Now, let me tell you why i said “Web is my computer“

Documents:: I saved most of the important documents on Google Docs. Documents that i couldn’t upload for limit on Google docs, i uploaded them on Windows Live SkyDrive. Same goes for Pictures, my all memorable pictures are saved on SkyDrive.

My projects:: Most of them are stored on remote servers. Just needed to get the FTP/SFTPs access info that i saved on Gmail.

Tools: As i’m a linux user, i didn’t worry about any saved softwares or anything. Just reinstalled Ubuntu and used Synaptic or command prompt to get all the software i used. But some tool like Tweetdeck where i had columns of groups? yes, thankfully i had account on tweetdeck where i synchronized my columns. Just used the accounts and got all columns back

Music:: Unfortunately, i dint save them anywhere. There were around 10 Gb music in my HD, this is one think that made me upset cuz i had my all favorite musics. But again, it doesn’t let me worry that much when i think that i can listen to music online from Internet radio channel like radiodhaka.net. Plus i can get these songs from my friends, of course

Tutorials/Links:: My twitter/Friendfeed and bookmarking tools are there to save my important links. And when i get something interesting i Favorite them on twitter which is kinda like special bookmark for me

There wasn’t any worries for my important links.

Ok….just spent 2/3 hrs to get all these downloaded and updated. Other then that, i actually didn’t loss anything big.

Lesson learned? Do stuff more on web, save them online…..there are lots of tools to do that. Such as, DropBox, SkyDrive, Box…etc. But personally, im waiting for Google’s GDrive. Probably it will come out with Google Chrome OS? i’m not sure but i’m preparing myself for Google Chrome OS, what about you?

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Tags: Backup Web

Completing Windows Needs on Ubuntu.

January 7th, 2009

Other day, I was having this argument with one of my friends that Linux (Ubuntu) is no more a complex OS which can be used by only some skilled people. He kept going on and on but I just wanted to prove him wrong that a normal user can use Linux if he/she doesn’t play games or doesn’t work on Flash/3D stuff. Except 2/3 issues why wouldn’t you use Linux? When you have better performance, no virus tension and more importantly, you are not using a pirated windows!

Personally, I have been using Linux for last couple of months. Few alternative softwares were just missing to full fill all needs of windows and finally I got them all in my Ubuntu stomach.

My acer laptop has a built-in camera but I didn’t have any software for it to view . Rayhan posted a needy article on additional Linux software here. From them I got this command for my web cam and its working brilliant now.

To install this web cam software open the command prompt and paste the following line

apt-get install webcam cheese

Viewing my web cam with cheese

another problem was, my Nokia N72 mobile! I didn’t have any software like Pc Suite, all I needed was, transferring file and getting files from and to my mobile. But yes, it has also a nice solution. If you have Nokia phone and looking for a software that would do the same stuff that Pc Suite would do then have a look here.

Trasfer file from Nokia phone on your Linux

And finally, I was looking for a better screen shot capture software for Ubuntu. Something like Snag it on Windows. Unfortunately, there is NOT any Firefox add-ons that would do this job (if you know anyone, let me know please). But this software called Ksnapshot almost doing the same job. Try the following command to install this software or just search for it with “ksnapshot” from the Synaptic package manager.

sudo apt-get install ksnapshot

ksnapshot for better screen capture

So yea, i have full filled all the needs of windows on my Ubuntu

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Skype – “Problem with Audio Playback” Solved for Intrepid Ibex!

November 22nd, 2008

My Acer laptop model is 5573. and i got Realtek ALC 883 sound card. All other sound device and stuff worked fine for me on new Linux Distro called the “Intrepid Ibex”. Just skype didn’t behave that well till now
Every time I called someone it showed a wrong message “Problem with Audio Playback”. After left/right movement on sound devices I was able to hear from other end but the receiver didnt hear me at all. And finally after digging it I have sloved the problem
here is the solution how I solved it…
first of all double click on the volume control and it will open the volume manager…
default is HDA Intel (alsa mixer) change it to your sound card (in my case it is “Realtek ALC883”). Close the window now go to the option of skype.
Select sound device from left navigation and follow the screen shot I have attached here.

Setup your sound devices for audio playback problem