Posts tagged 'volume'

Configuring pulseaudio-equalizer defaults

I’ve recently been using the Logitech G930 headset with my Ubuntu 11.10 install and I’ve found that the default configuration offers nothing in terms of decent sound (tinny, no bass, etc). Thankfully, I’ve been able to turn to pulseaudio-equalizer for help with turning down the treble and up the bass. However, using pulseaudio-equalizer-gtk wasn’t an entirely satisfying experience as the default volume for my headset kept being set to 100% upon restart. Now, if you recall my previous post on this headset, having the volume for the device set at 100% leads to static being …

Unix: Removing Open Logical Volumes in Centos/RHL

Because I still haven’t remembered to set myself up with a limited-access account for blogging on my new site, I’m back here again. (EDIT: Migrated from old site)

This time is a lot of fun and games with removing an “open” logical volume from within a CentOS environment. The dom0 machine has a set of logical volumes in a volume group for each of the VMs and one of them went and failed dismally, and after its xen destruction (xm destory foo) its LV was left with it being “open”.

It’s not exactly easy to see how …