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Linux Docked Dell Precision M6300 Audio: No sound when Docked

Written August 5, 2008 in howto, linux, opensuse

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This has worked on OpenSuse 10.3, Fedora 9, and all recent versions of Ubuntu…

Problem: Audio doesn’t work when the machine is docked in a Dell dock.
Solution: You need to enable the IEC958 Switch in your Volume Control application.

HowTo:

  1. Click Computer, More Applications, and Voume Control
  2. Click Edit, Preferences, and check

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Reading List, 1July08

Written July 1, 2008 in opensuse, reading list, sysadmin

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  • Less Accounting — along with my man-love of Freshbooks, Less Accounting is a more accounting-ish replacement for Quickbooks. Quickbooks sucks and you should not use it.
  • I need to check out the Smart package management system for OpenSuSE… it’s a replacement for Zypper. Zypper’s come a long way

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MySQL Cluster / Carrier Grade Edition

Written May 12, 2008 in mysql, opensuse

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There aren’t any binaries for MySQL Carrier Grade Edition, which includes the NDB Cluster engine, enabling highly available MySQL services. If you’re using OpenSUSE, you can get an older edition (MySQL 5.1.24) from the Build Service … or the most recent Carrier Grade Edition, 6.2 and 6.3, from the MySQL …

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How To: Instal Asterisk Painlessly on OpenSUSE 10.3

Written November 24, 2007 in howto, opensuse

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This took me some time to figure out… here you go.

1. Add the Telephony network repository in YaST2. The URL is http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/telephony/openSUSE_10.3/ …

2. There’s a bug in the deps for Asterisk with mISDNuser (the version in the repository is more recent, but is “uninstallable”) that will block the install process…

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