Installing Firefox 3.5, before something else

sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5

After installing it, you will need to download Flash for 64 bits from Adobe Labs

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
tar xvfz libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Then a fast command to move it to the right place

sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Now open Firefox 3.5 and enjoy Flash!

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).

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!