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This worked for me and I don’t know if will work with others, but here it is my solution

First of all, you have to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

search for this lines

# Power down HDA controllers after 10 idle seconds
options snd-hda-intel power_save=10 power_save_controller=N

and put a # before it, and will look like

# Power down HDA controllers after 10 idle seconds
# options snd-hda-intel power_save=10 power_save_controller=N

After each reboot, you will have to do this

sudo alsa force-reload
alsamixer

In alsamixer you will have to unmute the Master, Headphones, PCM, Center and LFE. And sound got fixed! I hope this works, but this will be fixed on coming days (I suppose that needs to before Karmic Koala release)

Looking on IRC I have noticed many people is getting problems with sound here I will add information that might work for more people.

Mitac computer (Polarina@freenode) with 00:1b.0 Audio Device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) added the following line in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1 model="basic"

(Not sure if that probe_mask is required).

Since I upgraded to Karmic Koala I missed using TuxGuitar, I found easier to install Virtual Box with Windows XP and then Guitar Pro 5 to search the guide, but well, I was quite bored this morning, I mean, is 6:52 am and I haven’t sleep nothing yet. So I started to see how make it work and thanks to ZaHACKieL on Ubuntu Forums found out how, and here an easy guide.

First of all, download and install TuxGuitar (if you got installed from repositories, uninstall them and install this) – this is for 64 bits, if you got 32 bits system or the download link on wget didn’t work, download the correct Ubuntu deb package from here

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tuxguitar/TuxGuitar/TuxGuitar-1.1/tuxguitar-1.1-ubuntu-amd64.deb?use_mirror=softlayer
sudo dpkg -i tuxguitar-1.1-ubuntu-amd64.deb

Now, we need to get Java Sound API: Soundbanks, I selected the deluxe edition, that have better sound quality and weights a little more (4MB) for others or if the download link is broken, here is the site link. In this same step we will make a move the extracted file to the folder where it belongs to.

wget http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/soundbank-deluxe.gm.zip
unzip soundbank-deluxe.gm.zip
sudo mv soundbank-deluxe.gm /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib

Now all is installed!

Open Tuxguitar and go to Tools -> Settings -> Sound -> On MIDI Port select: Java Sound Synthesizer.

Now is working; the only problem that you might find is that the timebar on TuxGuitar don’t work as supposed, you can still change the instrument do you want to see but actually, it doesn’t show but I am able to live with that until the bug is fixed (I wish I can), tried with the binary and the Live version of TuxGuitar, none worked.

Dont ask me why Timidity now just don’t appear in TuxGuitar, I don’t have a clue, and now that it is working I don’t care, so no questions about this please!

Configuring LIRC with a Windows Media Center Remote

Although I have read that is fairy difficult to configure, and things alike that on wikis, but was fairy easy at here, I think I have luck and it detected it immediately and without any problem, here the easy setup.

sudo apt-get install lirc lirc-modules-source module-assistant

Now on configuration

Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all) -> None -> DONE!

To test out the controller, is

irw

while doing this, click the keys in your controller and they will appear if it was detected correctly. Here, all were detected.

If you want to make it work with KDE and KDE apps,

apt-get install kdelirc

And configure the keys in System Settings.

HAPPY BLOG ACTION DAY NOOBS!

Just happy about having internet again

As some of my readers know, Tibia4 is a community of OpenTibia in Spanish, that is the official and the biggest one, although we had to move from eOtfans to Tibia4 and now we made an upgrade were we had to reset our forum, the things are for better.

The forum, actually, we updated it putting a more robust, fast and stable forum software, vBulletin of Jelsoft instead MyBulletinBoard – that I consider the best free forum software out of there. All the changes are for better, and in the hope that the community grows I invite all to visit Tibia4.net, we now got an English talking forum, enjoy!

Tibia4.net!

Plus, I want to thank: Rodo and Warhol for the vBulletin licence, Jason for the try of importing the forum – damn imPex, and Balde for the 2 years (09-11) of Tibia4.net domain

August 22
Arch Enemy

August 24
Mastodon

September 12
Mezcal Fest Monterrey
Testament, Grave Digger, Voivod, Sacred Reich and Alcatraz

September 15
Pre-Party Monterrey Metal Fest IV
Diablo Swing Orchestra and Split Heaven

September 16
Monterrey Metal Fest
Children of Bodom, Sonata Arctica, Amorphis, Samael, Brainstorm, Doro, Atheist, Whiplash, Stravaganzza and Maligno

September 24
Kaotik Fest
God Dethroned, Entombed, Vital Remains and Master

October 3
Kreator & Exodus

October 10
Stratovarius

October 31
Rata Blanca

November 7
Moonspell & Tiamat

Confirmation of some other gigs as AC/DC pending.

Just want to say, that Sonata Arctica PWNS! CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THEM ON 36 DAYS! (OR SOMETHING ABOUT THAT)

Well, they just (3-4 days ago) added Sonata Arctica for performance on Monterrey Metal Fest (the same day of their new album release), and well, I leave the promo tv commercial here