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HowTo Remember Authentication Mounted Drive in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

The new policykit in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic doesn’t have a GUI for remembering settings like authentication password to mount a drive/partition. Even without a GUI you can change policies fairly easy by going to /usr/share/polkit-1/actions and editing the right XML file with your favorite editor.

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Linux, Tutorials/Guides/HowTo 10 Comments

No sound issue SB Audigy in Ubuntu 9.04 & 9.10 Karmic Koala

If you don’t have sound on your Creative Sound Blaster (Audigy) after installing Ubuntu 9.04, here is a solution to enable sound on Creative Sound Blaster cards, it’s not just an Audigy issue. I had the same problem with my SB Audigy 2 after a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, it worked with earlier versions out of the box. I only tested this with SB Audigy 2 and SB Live!.

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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Linux, Tutorials/Guides/HowTo 19 Comments