January 2007

I've recently come across Referencer, a reference manager for GNOME (currently in version 1.0.0). A number of dependencies are listed in the README file (and on the homepage). The names listed are not the same as the relevant package names under Ubuntu. These can be installed on Ubuntu Edgy with the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install libpoppler-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libgnomeuimm-2.6-dev libgnome-vfsmm-2.6-dev libglademm-2.4-dev libgconfmm-2.6-dev libboost-regex-dev

For the installation itself, there's no ``./configure" step. A simple ``make" will build the application and ``sudo make install'' will perform the installation (although it can be run from the build directory without this if you're just testing it out).

*Edit:* There's now a .deb for Ubuntu available, so this information is pretty useless now.

From this post on linuxquestions.org comes a workaround for situations whereby adjusting the Master Volume on some Intel sound cards doesn't actually have any effect on the volume. This is particularly annoying where you have a keyboard shortcut to change volume that does nothing more than put a pretty volume-changing graphic on the screen with no other noticeable effects (it's the PCM that will actually change the volume).

The post suggests putting the following line in the /etc/modprobe.conf file. I'm running Ubuntu Edgy at the moment and the relevant file there is /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

options snd_intel8x0 ac97_quirk=hp_only