Hayden’s Blog

This guide is WONDERFUL for this problem.

http://www.susegeek.com/wireless/unable-to-set-atheros-wireless-card-with-madwifi-in-opensuse-110/

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I too was vexed by this problem. My preferred soundcard is my SBLive! but I use the VIA chipset based soundcard on my motherboard for VoIP stuff. Kubuntu was always making my VIA soundcard the default.

The solution is a bit obscure but it works.

Do:

sudo asoundconf list

I got back:

Names of available sound cards:
Live
V8237

I then did:

sudo asoundconf set-default-card Live

followed by a reboot to test.

Sure enough, the Live is now set to default. It’d be nice if there was a simple config app in the KDE configuration panel that did this.

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I’ve been messing with the bots in Tribes 2 a lot, and I’ve found these two documents to be somewhat helpful:

http://sloik.ezwebtogo.com/downloads/T2cmdlist.txt

http://sloik.ezwebtogo.com/downloads/botfuncs.txt

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Apparently the packager for MadWifi has messed up the version numbers for their OpenSuSE wifi driver packages.

A solution can be found below.

http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/wireless/386427-madwifi-kmp-issues-11-0-a.html

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To check the status of my server’s RAID array, I’ve found the following command to be useful:

# /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0

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The solution is simple! Look to this thread:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=948028&postcount=5

It’s as simple as shutting down and restarting the Pulse daemon as soon as you’ve got everything set up the way you like it. Otherwise, when you log off or shut down, the daemon is killed before it can save its settings, reloading the defaults on the next boot.

Pulseaudio daemon won’t save it’s settings to ~/.pulse if just killed when exiting your login session. It will only save if you kill the daemon with pulseaudio -k command. So I had to add a 1-line script (/usr/bin/pulseaudio -k) to /etc/kde/shutdown directory. Now it works.

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To change the Java version you’re currently using under Fedora 8 (and maybe other distros) run the following command as a root user. Take note: this command is in /usr/sbin/, so just running it through su may not work.

update-alternatives –config java

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This was a bit annoying, but eventually was easy to fix according to this thread:

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?s=5bb4454b3b055089ec6b1deae9bb940c&showtopic=49571&pid=244126&st=0&#entry244126

There’s a boot script at /etc/init.d/boot.local. Add
modprobe ath_pci
sleep 5
ifup ath0
sleep 5

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It’s so much easier in Linux, but this page finally revealed what it takes.

http://kennethhunt.com/archives/000173.html

Recursive Find Text String In Files, Output Line Number:


FOR /R c:\~kenneth %v IN (*.css) DO find /N /I “#banner” “%~fv” >> test.txt

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Evolution likes to use Gnome’s setting for the default web browser. To edit Gnome’s default web browser, you use this command:

gnome-default-applications-properties

In order to get this app to work in a KDE only environment, the following package is needed:

control-center

sloik2004 Lab Notes applications, default, evolution, gnome, properties