Stefan aka Noneus

Google just announced a phone sold through a new Google Webstore called the Nexus One. Go to http://google.com/phone to buy one. Google sells it unlocked without a carrier contract for 529$. BUT: ONLY to the US, UK and Hong Kong! What? It is unlocked. So why not sell it to the rest of the world, even if there is no dataplan here in Germany? All I get is this stupid page:

I recently decided to use Kde4 again. I ran in a problem with phonon. It didn’t use my dmix setup. Well I got it working. Phonon detects devices with a new alsa command in the asound.conf called ‘hint’. Here is my new /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 8192
rate 44100 #many new cards are 48000 only
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
hint {
show on
description "Onboard Soundcard"
}
}
ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 0
}

On the lines 25-28 is the part so Phonon find it. Now you can setup Phonon with your new sound device. It has to be on top for all outputs. (I had to set all of them separately.)

I finally moved my blog. I have a rootserver at Hetzner now. It’s processor is way better than mine I installed Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. I’m now looking for mail- and other servers I’ll use.