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[...] ALSA, I doubt I would be listening to Revolution Void right now. Ubuntu wasn't as helpful and has issues with sound when I install it in a command-line system, no matter the hardware. So all you red-swirly fans out [...]

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Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:38:07 +0000

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Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:51:14 +0000

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By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:50:40 +0000

Hmm, I’m pretty sure I had alsa-utils in there, because alsamixer was on board, but spitting out errors. I have a feeling there was another package that I didn’t know about that was needed. … No matter now; I’ll try again the next time I put Ubuntu on there.

By: Kaleb Elwert

Kaleb Elwert — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:27:10 +0000

I seem to remember that the console install of Ubuntu leaves out alsa-utils or something of that sort… maybe that’ll fix your sound issues…

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:43:15 +0000

That’s one way, although if you want an exceedingly sparse environment, try the command-line installation off the alternative install CD.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:07:08 +0000

just remove the display manager. gdm in the default ubuntu installation. i hope you don’t mind the meddling

By: ajlec2000

ajlec2000 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:31:31 +0000

I am curious as to what you remove if anything to boot straight to console.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:56:05 +0000

Awesome tips as usual…I’m enjoying an X-free system on my toshiba satellite 500MHz P3 w/192MB of RAM, which also hosts my website and a chat server…isn’t Linux + the console amazing?

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:23:29 +0000

No problem. Remember to skim through the available modules with modprobe -l | grep fb to find one that matches your hardware. Chances are you'll get better results with that.