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Sound Problems, Found information here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto that help me have have better sound quality. 1. Type below to find out what sound card you are using. cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec Dell Precision T3400 uses a Codec: Analog Devices AD1984 2. View this file /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ALSA-Configuration.txt.gz and search for AD1984, You should see that the T3400 ..

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Information taking from this website: http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2009/04/6-ways-to-make-ubuntu-fast.html And then goto /etc/event.d/ and change the ttyx files that you DONOT want. Edit them and comment lines starting with “start on runlevel”. So, in this case, you’ll comment the start line in tty4..tty6 files. 1. gksudo gedit /etc/event.d/tty4 2. Comment out where you see start on runlevel. 3. I ..

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See this website for more information: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89491 1. Install this app: sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf 2. To run app: sudo sysv-rc-conf Then go to website above if you want more information on what services can be..

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I like to set my Ubuntu Gnome-Terminal to something other then the default size. Found the information here. http://www.codealpha.net/36/how-to-change-the-gnome-terminal-default-size-ubuntu/ If you have a large LCD then you will really want to change the Gnome-Terminal to a better default size. Open Terminal. Type : gksudo gedit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm or sudo nano /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm Enter your root password. Look around the ..

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Linuxmint 7 64 bit, which is based on Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) I like to have my Trash Can on my desktop. Here is how it is done. run gconf-editor and then navigated to apps/nautilus/desktop , then ticked trash_icon_visible. Also in Linuxmint 7 you can go to Menu > Preferences > mintDesktop, check..

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Linuxmint 7 64 bit, which is based on Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) even Linuxmint 10. On my laptop I only have a 15 inch sreeen and didn't like when opening a terminal window, fortune taking a bunch of space. So here is how you can remove it . Original message came from Linuxmint. Since I ..

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I have a Hp Pavilion dv5 laptop and was having sound problems. I have Linuxmint 7 64 bit, which is based on Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) I found this article at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting which can also help you with HP dv models. The latest alsa-driver snapshot provides a fix for this issue. Get it here and ..

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