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You can find the Fedora core release number in /etc/redhat-release

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If you are having problems getting sound working on with Ubuntu on your Sony Vaio laptop then it may be caused by the External Amplifier being switched on. This was the case for me when I recently installed Jaunty on my VGN-T37GP.

To turn the External Amplifier off do the following.

Open the Volume Control
Goto Edit>Preferences and check External Amplifier
Goto new Switches tab in Volume Control and switch External Amplifier off

With some luck you should now have sound working on your laptop.

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Got the following error while trying to run gitosis-init on Ununtu 9.04. After a bit of searching found it was a known bug. Workaround is to edit /usr/bin/gitosis-init to use python 2.5 instead of python 2.6.

mick@builder:/srv/gitosis$ sudo -H -u gitosis /usr/bin/gitosis-init < /tmp/id_rsa.pub
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gitosis-init", line 5, in 
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2562, in 
    working_set.require(__requires__)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 626, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 524, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)  # XXX put more info here
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: gitosis==0.2
mick@builder:/srv/gitosis$ /usr/bin/python2.

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