<![CDATA[Timo Baumann : Weblog items tagged with ubuntu]]> http://coco-lab.org/Elgg/timo/weblog/ <![CDATA[Speed-Up Boot under Ubuntu with VMware]]> http://coco-lab.org/Elgg/timo/weblog/78.html http://coco-lab.org/Elgg/timo/weblog/78.html Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:50:02 GMT I still need Windows for one piece of software that I use occasionally. So, since I've moved to Ubuntu, I've been using VMware for this (as it was the only solution at that time).

My VMware stopped working under Hardy. Luckily, I never needed my Windows-App for half a year. In Intrepid, I was able to just install vmware from their webpage and it restored my windows session from a year ago. Probably a record-breaking uptime for windows...

So, yesterday I played around with bootchart and found out, that the VMware-services took 4 precious seconds of my (and my battery's) lifetime on every boot. Not really worth it, as I'm unlikely to use my Windows-App anytime soon. So, here's what I did:

remove the links in /etc/rc*.d/*vmware

as the first command in /usr/bin/vmplayer add:

gksu -D "Need root priviledges to start vmware services." /etc/init.d/vmware restart

Works like a charm.

]]> <![CDATA[no sound in praat with ubuntu (and USB sound)]]> http://coco-lab.org/Elgg/timo/weblog/76.html http://coco-lab.org/Elgg/timo/weblog/76.html Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:11:04 GMT If praat (on ubuntu) doesn't want to play any audio, it tells you to consult some Sound-HOWTO (which at least doesn't exist on ubuntu). Unfortunately, http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-64383.html is of little help (and doesn't allow posting anymore as its active phase has expired).

The solution for us was easy: We use an external USB sound card and have deactivated the mainboard sound. For some reason, the sound device is now called "/dev/dsp1" (and "/dev/audio1") and there is no "/dev/dsp" (nor "/dev/audio"). Adding symlinks from "/dev/dsp" to "/dev/dsp1" (and from "/dev/audio" to "/dev/audio1") fixed the problem. Hope this helps.

]]> <![CDATA[sox in Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)]]> http://coco-lab.org/Elgg/timo/weblog/70.html http://coco-lab.org/Elgg/timo/weblog/70.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:17:28 GMT If you just upgraded your Ubuntu to 8.04 and use sox, then you may get the error "sox soxio: Failed reading `some.file': unknown file type `auto'"

In Hardy, all audio formats for sox have been refactored in separate packages libsox-fmt-XYZ. So, either install just the base formats from libsox-fmt-base or get all possible formats with libsox-fmt-all.

]]> <![CDATA[howto: SRILM and ubuntu]]> http://coco-lab.org/Elgg/timo/weblog/59.html http://coco-lab.org/Elgg/timo/weblog/59.html Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:39:43 GMT There is just one problem with the SRI language modeling toolkit: It doesn't come with a configure-scipt and the makefiles don't work out of the box. After an hour of searching through make output, we found out, that ubuntu does not use gawk but mawk as its standard awk implementation. Later on in the build process, this leads to weird errors.

I'll attach the changed common/Makefile.machine.i686 , so you (and I) don't have to redo the work later.

SRILM-Makefile for Ubuntu [document/unknown]

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