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How to install OpenOffice.org 3 on Ubuntu 8.10

February 19th, 2009 by alpho2k 17
openoffice3 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:

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Acer aspire 6920 – Bass not working on Ubuntu 8.10

February 14th, 2009 by alpho2k 18

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:

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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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