Archive for February 10th, 2009

Utility : numlockx – Num Lock enabled by default

February 10th, 2009 by alpho2k 0

Good evening everyone!

If like me, you use an external keyboard, it may be useful to have the “Num Lock” button enabled by default when you start your computer. To do this, I found a very simple utility that allows you to do this. It’s numlockx. To install it, just run this command:
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Acer aspire 6920 – No sound on Ubuntu 8.10 – Upgrade of alsa

February 10th, 2009 by alpho2k 49

Here’s one of my first problems I had during the installation of Ubuntu 8.10 distribution on my acer aspire 6920 laptop. This laptop has a HDA Intel ACL889 sound card.

The problem was that I had no sound. After some research on Google, I found that I had to update my version of the alsa to version 1.0.18a. The latest version being released was 1.0.19, so I decided to choose this one.
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To do this, we must begin by determining our version of alsa as follows :

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