Monthly Archives: March 2010
GIGABYTE Q1580P stereo microphones in Ubuntu 9.10
My GIGABYTE Q1580P-VA laptop has stereo microphones — one on either side of the in-built webcam. While probably useful, Ubuntu doesn’t seem to play nice with them by default. Fortunately, there’s a simple solution to get them recording audio input. … Continue reading
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Tagged GIGABYTE, hardware compatibility, in-built, microphones, Q1580P, stereo microphones, Ubuntu
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Wine 1.2 beta not running programs
Since I made the foobar2000 installation guide, my laptop was stolen. So, obviously I attempted to install foobar2000 on my new GIGABYTE Q1580P-VA. The latest stable Wine (1.0.1) wouldn’t play audio properly (Dune 2000 had problems), so I figured the … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, GIGABYTE, laptop, Q1580P, Wine, wine-pthread, WinePulse
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