The Sony Vaio VPCCW17FX uses the Realteck ALC262 codec and out of the box Ubuntu 9.10 the internal microphone does not work. However the mic input jack does work.
$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC262
Researching on the web there were a lot of folks across a lot of distrubtions having issues with this codec [...]
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Recently purchased a Sony VPCCW17FX laptop that is equiped with an nVidia 220m graphic chipset. Not a fan of Windows 7 so I installed Ubuntu 9.10 without a problem.
However to take advantage of nVidia and have all the bells and whistles I needed to update the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. There were several issues generating [...]
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This weekend a local wine store opened in town and my wife and I decided to spend time on main street and check it out. It was a nice store in a historic building with a good selection of wine.
I notice a buddy of mine who is an area wine rep was helping the new [...]
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