Notes

1. :~$ sudo apt-get install pulse-audio-module-raop paprefs
   :~$ paprefs
   

2. check "Make discoverable network sound devices available locally"
   check "Make discoverable Apple Airtunes sound devices available locally"
   

3. Reboot (or restart pulseaudio)
4. Go to Sound Preferences – Output (by clicking on the speaker in the taskbar)
5. Select Base Sation as output
6. Start your favorite radio station (Pandora?), mp3, etc..

How-to move the minimize, maximize and close buttons to the right of the window in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).

1. Press ALT-F2, type: gconf-editor and click Run
2. Go to: apps > metacity > general and right-click on button_layout and choose “Edit Key….”
3. Type in menu:minimize,maximize,close and click OK
4. That’s it.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install wine1.2
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun2005
sh winetricks d3dx9
wine regedit

• under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine, create key Direct3D if it doesn’t already exist
• inside Direct3D create the following values:
  • string: DirectDrawRenderer value: opengl
  • string: OffscreenRenderingMode value: fbo
  • string: RenderTargetLockMode value: auto
  • string: UseGLSL value: readtex
  • string: VideoMemorySize value: (video card memory size in MB)

I fixed it by installing libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio (which replaces libsdl1.2debian-alsa). So it might be worth a try if you get sound problems with any other programs.

Source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/372843

For some reason, Ubuntu Karmic wasn’t saving my sound volume and settings that I set using the Sound Preferences. After attempting to run alsactl store I got:

$ alsactl store
alsactl: save_state:1530: Cannot open /var/lib/alsa/asound.state for writing: Permission denied
$ sudo alsactl store
E: core-util.c: Home directory /home/mycurrentuser not ours.

So I deciced to change “/var/lib/alsa/asound.state” ownership temporarily to the current user and then was able to successfully save my sound settings (then switched back ownership to root). I also added “alsactl restore” to /etc/rc.local to automatically reload my sound settings when I reboot.