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Last active September 16, 2024 19:24
Fix microphone on Lenovo IdeaPad 320 on Ubuntu 18.04

In /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-internal-mic.conf and /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-mic.conf:

  • Under [Element Internal Mic Boost] set volume to zero.
  • Under [Element Int Mic Boost] set volume to zero.
  • Under [Element Mic Boost] set volume to zero

Find your source name from the following command; mine is alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo

  $ pacmd list-sources | grep 'name:.*input'

Edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and add the following lines, where INPUT_NAME is name of the input source from above step:

// XPath CheatSheet
// To test XPath in your Chrome Debugger: $x('/html/body')
// http://www.jittuu.com/2012/2/14/Testing-XPath-In-Chrome/
// 0. XPath Examples.
// More: http://xpath.alephzarro.com/content/cheatsheet.html
'//hr[@class="edge" and position()=1]' // every first hr of 'edge' class
@reidransom
reidransom / gist:6042016
Created July 19, 2013 20:13
Auto-starting VirtualBox VMs on OS X

Auto-starting VirtualBox VMs on OS X

After finding a lot of other posts on the topic that didn't work out for me this one did the trick so I'm reposting for my own sense of self preservation.

Link to original article.

Copy the Virtualbox autostart plist template file to your system's LaunchDaemons folder.

sudo cp \

/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/org.virtualbox.vboxautostart.plist \