Finally done with the drudgery of undergraduate exams!
And, with a happy coincidence, I managed to get my XPS 17 L702x laptop speakers working on ubuntu 10.04
So, in case you’re in the same boat as I am, here’s how to go about it
a. Enable the backports repository in Software Packages
b. Determine your kernel version using uname -a
c. Install the appropriate linux-backports-modules-alsa-$(uname -r)
d. Enjoy the awesomeness! :)
How this works is that the reasonably current development versions of libraries like ALSA are, as the name suggests, back-ported to run on 10.04. Similarly, there’s a compat-wireless backport as well, which might solve your wireless issues as well.
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find a way to get full HD resolution working. Although going through the Xorg log, EDID information is read, it can’t parse it.
In other news, I really have to rush development on the Senior project :S
Also, to be able to push to github through my college firewall I used a SSL port (If you can access https sites, you’re good to go) that the good guys at github at opened up, thusly (I always wanted to use this word!)
a. ~/.ssh/config
Host github
User git
Port 443
Hostname ssh.github.com
ServerAliveInterval 10
IdentityFile /home/kshaurya/.ssh/id_rsa
b. Changed project/.git/config hostname from github.com to the new hostname, github
Did you try the latest ubuntu version? If u want an LTE, then u can get 11.04 or 12.04 ;) (But i know u know :P
For github.. my college has a proxy.. which is even worse. i never figured how to use git pass it :/
Btw.. you have a repo?
I do! https://github.com/icoderaven
Well, if you can access https sites, then this method shall work for you as well! That’s what connecting to port 443 is about.