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Solution to Lenovo Y410 Sound Problem On Ubuntu 8.04

Update 30/04: This script will only make speaker work, but not headphone. As Sam mentioned, there is another easy way to get sound work without installing anything: Suspend your machine and resume. The drawback is you have to do it every time after you (re)boot.
Well, this is another post about Ubuntu 8.04!
As I mentioned before, [...]


Hardy Heron

This post is composed under Ubuntu 8.04 — Hardy Heron.
I installed Hardy in my Lenovo Y410 half an hour ago. Most hardware (monitor, video card, wireless card, wireless mouse, webcam, etc.) work out of box, but like 7.10, the sound card still requires some efforts to make it work. In software, Gimp is upgraded to [...]


Gutsy and Chinese

After 3 days playing with Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon, I would say that I am not very satisfied with it; the ratio between excitement and disappointment is 4 to 6.
The excitement comes from the new Compiz and all the new upgrades and features, the disappointment comes from the support to Chinese language.
I love beautiful desktop [...]


UW is ready for Gutsy Gibbon

Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon, will be released some time today and I cannot wait!

I know that there will be a big rush into Ubuntu’s servers at the time of the release, so I decided to download the CD image from a mirror site. I then went to the mirrors list, and surprisingly, I saw UW [...]


Why ShipIt?

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) now can be pre-ordered in ShipIt. When I was filling the order form yesterday, I was wondering some questions: Are there any real needs for me to order free CDs from ShipIt? I can burn CD/DVDs myself, is this a kind of wasting resource?
In my hands, there are only 3 Ubuntu [...]