Recently i bought DELL inspiron 14 and made it as dual boot with Windows Vista and Ubuntu 9.04 and faced a strange issue. I can hear sound Vista in headphone as well as speakers. But in case of ubuntu i can hear sound in headphone only and no speaker sound and the strange thing is that when i first boot windows and then boot ubuntu both the mic and speakers will work properly . But when i first boot ubuntu i can hear sound from the headphone only .After some googlesearch and forum posts atlast i sloved the issue.Didnt got the exact issue yet but got the solution 
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The log files of both working and non working sound in the system seemed to be the same 
. At last tried an experiment by upgrading the ALSA driver and this time it got worked. Now i can hear sound in mic as well as in speakers…:).Anyone facing the same issue can give a try on this fix.
cat /proc/asound/version
will give the ALSA version details, mine was Version 1.0.18 and i upgraded to Version 1.0.21
Upgradation details is avilable here :: Click
Tags: Dell inspiron 14 Sound issue, Dell inspiron 14 Sound issue in linux, Dell inspiron 14 Sound issue in ubuntu
If you dual boot with Windows and Linux, and have data in both different partitions, some time it is necessary to access windows partition data from Linux and Linux partition data from windows.
The first one is simple as we all know we can mount the windows partition dive to linux using mount command or by writing in the fstab file.
And what about the second one??? ie getting linux files from windows.??
We can do it by a tool called Explore2fs.
Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem. Click here to download.
AndLinux is a Debian based Linux distribution that runs in Windows.In other sence we can say running mutiple OS at a time,any one having windows OS can install AndLinux and can run the commands and applications in it just like the normal linux os.The commands and all is same as the Debian or Ubuntu flavour.
For installing any thingyou can use command “apt-get install <applicationname>” like in the ubuntu OS.
For more information and downloads Click Here
The following is the screen shot of Linux running on my windows OS
Tags: AndLinux-, Linux running in Windows
