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Fix no sound in Ubuntu 20.04 after kernel 5.8 installation.

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I recently installed the 5.8.0-41-generic kernel and I had no detected sound hardware after booting into the new kernel, but it turns out that a package was missing from my machine. I installed this package and then replugged my sound hardware and it worked straight away. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r)┌──[[email protected]]─[~] … Read more

How to record PC sound to a file with ffmpeg and Pulseaudio.

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Recording sound from your computer to a file is pretty easy with Pulseaudio. Assuming you know what device you are using to listen to audio, then it may be selected and recorded from. Use this command to find the device name. ~$ pacmd list-sources~$ pacmd list-sources Then you may get the device string. alsa_output.usb-Cosair_Corsair_VOID_PRO_Surround_USB_Adapter_00000000-00.analog-stereo.monitoralsa_output.usb-Cosair_Corsair_VOID_PRO_Surround_USB_Adapter_00000000-00.analog-stereo.monitor Make … Read more

How to download only the audio from a Youtube video.

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It is possible to download just the audio from a Youtube video. This is very easy. Use youtube-dl to view information about the Youtube video and find the m4a audio track. 4.4 Sat Dec 07 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWPe9uh7FWU [youtube] JWPe9uh7FWU: Downloading webpage [youtube] JWPe9uh7FWU: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] JWPe9uh7FWU: Downloading js … Read more

Modding Shadow of Chernobyl is very popular. This post should help out.

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There are a lot of people modding Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl. I am also having a go at it. I have changed the music playlists for the Agroprom megaphone, as well as Rostok and Cordon. In the \gamedata\scripts\sound_theme.script file are the definitions for the music and speech for the megaphone in Cordon, Rostok and Agroprom, … Read more

How to turn on line-in with Pulseaudio on Ubuntu 18.04.

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The default pulseadio configuration does not automatically load the module to run line-in input for listening to audio from an external device. But this simple command will load this easily. 4.4 Thu Nov 15 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ pactl load-module module-loopback 314.4 Thu Nov 15 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ pactl load-module module-loopback 31 The default Pulseaudio configuration … Read more

Desktop Linux still a very good and secure operating system.

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As I type this, the kernel.org website is still down and the Linux kernel is still hosted on Github instead. What is going on here? This attack on software freedom, possibly perpetrated by Microsoft shills that want everyone to be stuck on closed source software instead of the free and open source alternatives that are more secure and … Read more