Howto fix flipped webcam Asus U33Jc Ubuntu 10.10

wget http://people.fedoraproject.org/~jwrdegoede/v4l-utils-0.8.2-test.tar.gz
ls -d /usr/lib64
ls -d /usr/lib32
tar xvfz v4l-utils-0.8.2-test.tar.gz
cd v4l-utils-0.8.2-test/lib
make PREFIX=/usr
sudo make install PREFIX=/usr
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev
make clean
make PREFIX=/usr CFLAGS=-m32 LDFLAGS=-m32 LIBDIR=/usr/lib32
sudo make install PREFIX=/usr LIBDIR=/usr/lib32
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

cat /usr/bin/skype-wrapper
#!/bin/sh

if [ ! -e ~/.Skype/shared.xml ]; then
  mkdir -p ~/.Skype
  cp /usr/share/skype/shared.xml ~/.Skype/shared.xml
fi

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so  /usr/bin/skype "$@"

Howto fix sound in headphones and speakers for HP G-series laptops

Ubuntu linux sound in headphones and speakers

Ubuntu sound problem in HP Dell Toshiba and other laptops and desktops

Linux Best Seller laptop teams continue growing

After more than a year since it's creation, the http://linux-best-seller-laptops.blogspot.com/ website has compiled information for many best seller laptop launchpad teams.

Right now, the HP G-series Launchpad team has more than 60 members, followed by the HP Envy series and the Lenovo G-series teams. Other teams in this linux best seller laptops website are the Sony Vaio E-series, the ASUS N-series and the Lenovo IdeaPad U-series, all of them with over ten team members and growing.

Howto fix audio on HP G72 Linux Ubuntu 10.04

Doodle: HP G60/G70 Linux November 2009 Poll

With Ubuntu 10.04 on the G72-110EL everything works out of the box, except for audio, but it's a quick fix:
-in System Administration: add the ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev repository
-in Terminal: sudo apt-get install linux-alsa-driver-modules-`uname -r`

Linux Asus N-series laptop in Launchpad

Asus N-series laptop in Launchpad

This team is a group of Asus N-Series laptop
owners and/or developers interested in getting it to work 100% under
Linux (e.g., N61Jv, N61JV-X2, N71JV-X1,N61JQ-X1, N61JQ-A1, N71JQ-X1,
Asus N82Jv, etc).

Please subscribe to this team if you are new. If you have 1 minute to
spare, please participate to the poll below:

http://www.doodle.com/xp3sfyu4e3z9bs6c

You can check the model and details of you laptop with these
commands:

sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name

sudo dmidecode -s system-version

lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/'

Sony Vaio E-series ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 remove watermark

Ubuntu Forums - View Single Post - [SOLVED] ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 Driver Problem

remove_watermark.sh
How to remove watermark reposted from BaffledMollusc

Quote:

Right click on the desktop and choose Create Document -> Empty File
Call it something like "remove_watermark.sh"
Double click on the file you've created to open it in the text editor
Paste the following text into the text editor

Code:

#!/bin/sh
DRIVER=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print "\\x"$2"\\x"$3"\\x"$4"\\x"$5"\\x"$6}'); do
sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER
done

Save the file and close the text editor
Right click on the desktop icon you've created and choose "Properties->Permissions"
Tick the box "allow executing file as program"
Close the properties dialog
Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)
Type the following two lines into the terminal, pressing enter after each line

cd Desktop
sudo sh remove_watermark.sh

Now enter your login password when prompted

Finally log out and back in and the watermark will hopefully be gone!

Installing Ubuntu 10.04 on HP G60 laptop

Posting this message that was sent to the mailing list:
Re: [G60-g70] Blank screen during and after installation

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on an HP G60-458DX. No problems, and nothing like the blank screen problems Wade reported. However, the "clean install" was Ubuntu 9.10 and then I upgraded to 10.04.