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Managing multiple sound cards (along with no sound in flash/youtube etc.)

Posted 03-02-2009 at 11:21 PM by phoenixrising (Learning Something Everyday about Linux)
Updated 03-02-2009 at 11:55 PM by phoenixrising

Tags multimedia, pulse, sound, soundcards

If you have multiple sound cards, installing pulse volume manager is almost a must (IMHO).

1. Set the default sound cards from the pulse volume manager

2. From the 'Playback' tab, you should be able to 'shift' the sound stream to the appropriate sound card that you want when you're playing something in that application e.g. playing a youtube video in Firefox...

phoenixrising

LQ Newbie

Posted in How-to, Notes

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Printer Installation/Printing

Posted 03-02-2009 at 11:19 PM by phoenixrising (Learning Something Everyday about Linux)
Updated 03-02-2009 at 11:55 PM by phoenixrising

Tags printer, printing

It's important to check if the printer is 'enabled' from the Admin settings
It's important to set the location of the printer to the hostname i.e. if your computer hostname is 'MYCOMP', the location of the printer should say 'MYCOMP' -- at least in two distros i've seen it to be left blank (and as a result printer was not working -- it was showing up on the menus -- but not doing anything)...

phoenixrising

LQ Newbie

Posted in Notes

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Installing gconf-editor (to stop showing volumes on Desktop)

Posted 03-02-2009 at 11:17 PM by phoenixrising (Learning Something Everyday about Linux)
Updated 03-02-2009 at 11:55 PM by phoenixrising

Tags desktop, fedora, gconf-editor, mounting

In Fedora, after making a small and harmless change in my fstab following what it said here, ALL the partitions started mounting and APPEARING on my desktop. That made the desktop look totally obnoxious.

Here's what I had to do.

I had to install the 'gconf-editor'

Code: