Configuring Hardy Heron has been a bitch; finally got around to fixing two nagging issues.
1. Sound: Ubuntu 8.04 has been infamous for having serious issues with sound. The fairly easy thing to do would be to build the ALSA modules all over again using the module-assistant package.
sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo m-a update
sudo m-a prepare
sudo m-a a-i alsa
Reboot.
This seemed to have resolved most of my sound problems.
2. Login Screen resolution: I’ve had this problem with all distributions thus far; the text size on the login screen is so large that it’s, well, invisible. Go figure. The fix:
sudo gedit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf(Find)
[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0
(Change to)
[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0 -dpi 96
Reboot.
In related news, beating Nina Williams on the Sergie Dragunov story arc is turning out to be much harder than anticipated.
(It’s 3 am. Obvious?)
I see you are hooked on Tekken. I am hooked on BioShock right now. I love this game.
I can say with great cheerfulness that I didn’t grasp a word of that. Yay me.
Moving on to more auspicious matters, so good to see my recommendations on your Listening and Reading widgetthings. I finally finished The Joke last night; the climax will leave you a trifle unfazed..but it’s shrug-worthy; the book worth a buy seeing as the content, the ephipanies and characterization are near perfect… you know how excitable I got. Quite a heady read, no?
Speaking of heady, Portishead is delicious! Beth Gibbons? Girl crush, uhuh.
I cannot believe that you just made an entry on linux… wats going on in this world?
In case you have not seen it:
http://xkcd.com/456/
@baphomet Let me know when BioShock makes it’s way to the PSP; till then it’s kicking butt on Tekken.
@Charl I’m almost halfway through the book and so far…brilliant. Oh yes, Beth Gibbons does remind me of someone I know though…
@Anonymous: Bipin?
@bpsk Ah I’ve seen that one but believe me, things aren’t *that* bad.
@Prest*: Bioshock has to be played on a bigger screen man.
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hm… I too, can only say what Charl said: Didn’t understand a word.
Hi there… tat anonymous was me.. didnt realise tat my name wasnt displayed.. but it goes to show that there are others thinkin along those lines…;)
>> woa ! well i saw this entry in my reader and was about to file a bug with google !
Yay ! Now you are officially disqualified from ‘The Monkey Test’ project.
>> Bioshock ? waiting for it to get out on PS3 !
oops that anon would be Johnny .
Hmm .. you may need to enable openid atleast.