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Here’s one of the first problems I had during the installation of Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 distribution on my acer aspire 6920 laptop. This laptop has a HDA Intel ACL889 sound card.

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The problem was that I had no sound. Here’s how to solve the problem :

We must add “options snd-hda-intel model=auto” without quotes at the end of this file “/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base”. You can use gedit, kate or your favorite text editor like this :

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

or

kdesudo kate /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
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Then, just restart your computer and your sound should work!

To continue with the installation of the bass, just follow the method in this article!

Ubuntu 8.10 is coming by default with Amarok 1.4.1 in the repository. I decided to install version 2. To do this, we need to install it from “deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu intrepid main” repository. This small tutorial will show you how to do it using graphical tools and using commands lines.

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What is amarok?

According to wikipedia,Amarok is a free software music player for Linux or other varieties of Unix. It makes use of core components from the K Desktop Environment, but is released independently of the central KDE release cycle.

Here is a short video of the version 2 on youtube

Installation with graphical tools

We need to begin by adding the repository. To do this, we have to go in “Software Sources” which is located in “System/Administration”.

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What is Google Earth?

According to Wikipedia, Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographic information program that was originally called Earth Viewer, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004. It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe. It is available under three different licenses: Google Earth, a free version with limited functionality; Google Earth Plus (discontinued), which included additional features; and Google Earth Pro ($400 per year), which is intended for commercial use.

What’s new in Google Earth 5.0?

Here is a short video on youtube that explain it :

Installation

Google Earth is not available by default in the Ubuntu repositories and versions available in the Medibuntu repository are 4.2 and 4.3. So, we need to install the 5.0.11337.1968 version manually.

First, we must download the software as follows:

Ubuntu is coming by default with OpenOffice 2.4, so, I decided to upgrade to version 3. To do this, there are two methods, either install it from “http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main deb” repository or manually from files directly downloaded on the OpenOffice web site. I started by trying the installation from the repository because it’s much simpler.

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Here is how:

Once your sound is working with the method I described a few days ago , we must now correct the problem with the bass that isn’t working.
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First, we must download hda-verb:

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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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 :