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Fix Long, Loud Beep / Popping During Kubuntu Shutdown

Feb 8

Posted by brett in linux | No Comments

I’m not sure what exactly causes this problem, but one of my computers running Kubuntu 9.10 has had this problem involving a long system beep during shutdown. Blacklisting the pc speaker didn’t work, nor did relentless searching for answers, until a post on Ubuntu forums finally answered my question.

The fix involves disabling the splash screen:

Edit /etc/default/grub


$ sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Change

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"

Update Grub:

$ sudo update-grub

..and reboot!

On the first reboot, you may still hear the beep. Reboot twice before you assume it doesn’t work!

Credit: dimoftheyard

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Fix the Tick Sound in Ubuntu 9.10

Dec 4

Posted by brett in linux | 2 Comments

Some power settings were changed in Ubuntu / Kubuntu 9.10 that makes the speaker amp turn off when not in use–it then turns on before playing a sound, creating a (rather annoying) ‘tick’ sound.  To fix this:

Edit the file: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
Look for the following line of code towards the bottom:

options snd-hda-intel power_save=10 power_save_controller=N

Change that line to:

options snd-hda-intel power_save=0 power_save_controller=N

…and restart! Your problem should be solved.

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Fix: GIMP as “Open With” Application in F-Spot Photo Manager for RAW Files

May 23

Posted by brett in how-to | No Comments

I use F-Spot Photo Manager for organizing all of my photos, but have noticed that it does not allow the user to open a RAW photograph in GIMP using the “Open With” menu.

Here is a quick how-to I wrote up in order to fix this problem:

This should work for both Nikon and Canon raw images.

1. Add “image/x-nikon-nef;” to MimeType in /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop (or “image/x-dcraw;” for Canon)
2. Add “image/x-nikon-nef” to mime_types in /usr/share/application-registry/gnome-vfs.applications (again, image/x-dcraw for Canon)
3. In terminal, sudo update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications/
4. Create a file in ~/.local/share/mime/packages called “nikonraw-mimetypes.xml” (canonraw-mimetypes.xml for Canon).  This file should have the following content:

For Nikon:

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<mime-info xmlns=’http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info’>
<mime-type type=”image/x-nikon-nef”>
<comment>Nikon RAW</comment>
<glob pattern=”*.nef”/>
</mime-type>
</mime-info>

For Canon:

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<mime-info xmlns=’http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info’>
<mime-type type=”image/x-canon-cr2″>
<comment>Canon RAW</comment>
<glob pattern=”*.cr2″/>
</mime-type>
</mime-info>

5. May have to restart / re-login for changes to take effect.

Start up F-Spot Photo Manager, and you should be good to go. This was tested using Ubuntu 9.04 64 Bit.

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