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Monthly Archives November 2010

giving up on sound daemons

After whipping up a quick script to kill and restart jackd when my laptop goes into S3 (/etc/pm/sleep.d) I had a revelation: any processes connected to jackd would have to reconnect. This doesn’t happen and sound is just lost. So for jackd to be usable on a laptop they need to support S3 directly and [...]

Posted 16 November 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

jackd won’t wake up

My last post ended with me describing some troubles getting jackd to wake after my laptop went into S3. I managed to get some debug info out of jack after running it as a dbus service through qjackctl: ERROR: JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync: read error, skip cycle alsa_driver_xrun_recovery ERROR: ALSA: channel flush for playback failed (File descriptor in [...]

Posted 09 November 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Getting Started with the Awesome Window Manager

I’ve been a Gnome user for a while now. It’s been good to me but I’m a minimalist and lately it feels like I’ve been spending a lot of time fighting against Gnome. This past week I bought a new SSD for my laptop but instead of just copying my system over to this new [...]

Posted 07 November 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

managing IPsec packets with iptables

A few weeks back I upgraded my wireless router and added an racoon based IPsec VPN. When I built my first home router / wireless access point a few years ago I did so to get some experience configuring Linux systems and writing firewall rules. I’ve revisited this script a number of times as I’ve [...]

Posted 03 November 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

madwifi on lenny router

For the past two months my day job has taken over my life. As always, during the height of my insane work schedule my wireless router started acting up. I guess I needed something to break so I had an excuse to take a much needed break from work. I’d pretty much forgotten I even [...]

Posted 01 November 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,