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Headphones not muting the speakers with a Gigabyte motherboard

It had been months since I had an weired issue with the embedded audio controller of my Gigabyte motherboard. Plugin the headphones on the front panel of my box didn’t mute the output to the speakers, which nullified the purpose of having headphones. I long thought that it was some hardware issue that I would [...]

Posted 28 May 2011 § Desktop § Linux § openSUSE ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Battery power and Compiz

I decided to drop Compiz since I found out (thanks to the Powertop utility by Intel) that it was power monger. Result : Compiz : 3h30 Metacity : 5h00

Posted 20 May 2007 § Desktop § Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,