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Getting Skype Working on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic x86-64

November 19, 2009

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So, recently, I installed Ubuntu karmic cleanly on my main desktop machine here at home, and I have really liked it. I even switched to KDE, and everything has been working better than it had been in GNOME. I tried setting up Skype the other day, and ran into an issue with the microphone. It turns out that since the new Skype uses PulseAudio, there’s a further configuration step that’s not so obvious. I found out here that you have [...]

How to set the RTC max_user_freq in newer kernels

July 19, 2009

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I found out today how to set the real time clock max frequencies in Ubuntu since they removed the possibility to do it from sysutil.conf from newer kernels. Add the following to your /etc/rc.local or another startup script: echo 2048 >/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/max_user_freq echo 2048 >/proc/sys/dev/hpet/max-user-freq Reboot, and you should get better performance from things like mplayer.

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