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There’s been a lot of complaints about Pulse Audio causing many sound-related problems in Ubuntu without, as far as I can see, any compensating benefits.
So, if you want to toss it out and see do things improve, here’s how.
Tips4Linux provides this simple command that actually allows this.
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Amazing? Well, not really. Of course there’s no sound and the graphics are, as expected, pretty crap if they can even be called graphics. Nevertheless, given the simplicity and limitations of the Unix terminal, it is pretty astounding.
Here’s how from Tips4Linux.
Bad things happen! This might even include messing up your MBR. Well, if you want to quickly get back on your feet after such a disaster, then just copy your bootsector somewhere safe. Details in this post from Tips4Linux.
Well, after getting back to using my EeePC 901, I decided to install the newly-released Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) using the iso and Unetbootin.
The install seemed to go fine (I didn’t reformat the /home from th previous 8.04). However, when I tried to boot it I kept getting an Error 13 (Invalid or unsupported executable format). I couldn’t figure out what the problem was so I just re-installed Hardy (8.04.1) using the same method and this went fine.
Right now, I’m trying to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 and then to 9.04. Not sure if this’ll work any better but it’s worth a try.
In any event, if ever I get Jaunty running on the EeePC, here’s a nice set of downloadable apps to include with the upgrade. I’m particularly excited that the list includes Yakuake as this is one app I just cannot do without. Indeed, what put me off upgrading to Ibex (8.10) was simply that I couldn’t get Yakuake to open by hitting F12. I could get it to open by going to Applications>System Tools>Yakuake or by putting a Yakuake icon in the AWN launcher. However, both of these were just a little cumbersome so I refused to upgrade to Ibex.
In my last post, I said that in Brazil I’d maybe be without Internet for up to a week. Well, as it happened, I had Internet but it was just so goddamn slow that it was basically unusable.
Download speed was an absolutely pathetic 20-100 kbps using one of these 3G mini-modems. Not only that but the drivers only work in Windows. So I couldn’t use my Linux machine for two months. Now, that’s cruel.
In any event I’m back home and my 7 Mbps internet never looked so good or felt so comfortable.
So, looks like I’m going to start filling up my blogs once again. Hope there’s at least a few of you still reading.
