Testing your system for USB boot compatibility
The following tutorial will enable a user to check if a computer system can boot from a USB device and ultimately help determine if the computer can boot a Linux version from USB. In most cases if the test is successful, you should have no problem running Linux portably. In addition to testing your PC
Increase the system wide sound (volume) in your linux (ubuntu etc..)
Here is another trick to increase the sound (soft volume) in Ubuntu Linux, this time system-wide. 1. Edit your /etc/asound.conf file. On your terminal type $ sudo gedit /etc/asound.conf 2. Paste the following into the asound.conf file: pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm “softvol”}pcm.softvol { type softvol slave { pcm “dmix” } control { name “Pre-Amp”
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