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Showing posts with label hardware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hardware. Show all posts
Sunday, December 14, 2008

Check Before Buying a Hardware for Ubuntu Machine

Hardware compatibility is not a very big problem in Linux now, but still there is some problems. Most of the devices are come with Windows Drivers. So you check the device for Ubuntu Hardware compatibility before buying it.

http://ubuntuhcl.org/ will give a comprehensive Ubuntu Hardware Database
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Howto Solve Loss of sound after upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10

After the installation of ubuntu 8.10 I have loss the sound in my Intel G33 Motherboard.

See the steps to solve the problem

Download OSS Driver
( http://www.4front-tech.com/release/oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb)

$ sudo dpkg -i oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb

Reboot the system


Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Howto get your system specification in ubuntu

There is a simple way to find the Hardware specification of your computer.

open a terminal windows and type the following

$lshw this will give the full hardware details in an ugly text format

Now you can try the follwing

$lshw -html > abcd.html

open the abcd.html file in web browser (firefox)

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