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Well, if it's really an HDD error, there would be no other option. What is startling me, is the "unknown failure" of smartctl tests, which prevents testing...

Hi there,

About one month ago I bought an external HDD (CnMemory, 1.5 TB, 3,5", USB 3.0). Some days ago Ubuntu tells me, that the HDD will fail soon.

Nothing happened, which I could relate to...

Hi all,

in the case of a friend of mine, this failure was caused by copying recovered files to a NTFS-disk. I assume, either (1) there were some non-ascii files in there, or (2) it has something...

Well, it seems, that another model within "/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf" did the job.

The first time I tried some models, I had a look into an old...

Asus eeePC 1201T

model=eeepc-p901

No or all other models, I tried (which does not include: "basic", "quanta", "lifebook" of the alsa list shipped with 10.04), lead to high CPU usage...

debug of gnome-volume-control

I tried to find out, which operation is causing such a high-cpu-phase by opening gnome-volume-control (this is, what i meant with "Sound Properties Panel"), which...

Thanks, Temüjin. The BIOS is really not up to date, but the owner is not willing to risk to brick her system. I haven't found any change history for the BIOS, so I can't tell, if something's in...

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Hey folks,

I'm trying to fix a system of a friend of mine facing a problem somehow related to pulseaudio and/or xorg.


Problem:

I wanted to get Skype working, as it used to freeze, when a...