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Linux sound FAQ

Sound

Sound on linux: tips and tricks, software, hardware, drivers.

Stop all music programs and remove ~/.xine

ALSA drivers can use the muting facilities that most soundcards have. If you loaded the sound drivers and everything is fine but you get nothing but silence, then you probably forgot to unmute your card. You need amixer or alsamixer for this, both from the ALSA-util package.

amixer pcm 100 unmute
amixer set -c 1 Master 70 unmute
amixer set -c 1 PCM 70 unmute
amixer set -c 1 CD 70 unmute

should do for most applications. Please note that for the older amixer command you need to leave out the set in the command line.

JavaScript VirtualKeyboard

This keyboard allows you to use any imaginable keyboard layouts, without having them installed on your local PC. This tool is good to embed it into the WISYWIG editor, webmail, chat, forum and any other application, requires the user input.

Project page, demo: http://allanguages.info

BidiLink, SOcat, RLwrap - Linux utilities for administrator

bidilink is a general purpose Unix tool for linking two bidirectional data streams together. It extends the standard Unix "filter" paradigma to bidrectional streams.

socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, serial device, pseudo terminal, a socket, an SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor, readline, a program, or a combination of these.Read more

Scanning software

VueScan is a powerful, easy-to-use program that

  • scans documents, photos and film
  • creates PDF, JPEG, TIFF and TXT files
  • supports 'File | Import' from Photoshop
  • supports more than 1600 scanners
  • has 32-bit and 64-bit versions
  • has been downloaded over 8 million times
  • you can try with your scanner for free

Tesseract is an Open Source OCR Engine. Orignally developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories Bristol and at Hewlett Packard Co, Greeley Colorado, all the code in this distribution is now licensed under the Apache License.

IceCast and DarkIce

Icecast is a streaming media server which currently supports Ogg Vorbis and MP3 audio streams.

DarkIce is a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio interface (e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming server.

Turboprint for Linux

The TurboPrint printing system for Linux not only offers high-quality printer drivers, but also comfortable tools for printer monitoring, error diagnosis, color profile management, printer configuration etc.

Our drivers support nearly all features of your printer like special print media, CD/DVD printing on certain printers, photo inks and highest print resolution.

A highlight of TurboPrint is the new integrated color management – it is easy to use and ensures perfect colors. You can choose the document color space, adjust the light source and correct color & grey balance.

TurboPrint comes with a new printer status monitor that continually shows printer status, remaining ink and print jobs – even over a network connection.

Installation of VIM X11 and archivers on RHEL 4 x86_64

Install archivers rhel4-x64-archivers.tar.bz2

Download and install vim-X11-6.3.046-0.40E.7.{i386,x86_64}.rpm.

Install .gvimrc in the home folder.

Linux webcam applications

Basic Pack: cheese xawtv v4l-conf camorama vlc gnome-device-manager luvcview w3cam

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