Blurring Existence

Finally got around to fixing sound on my Samsung X125 when using Linux. Text-book basics apparently, add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf (or create that if it doesn’t exist):

options snd-hda-intel model=laptop

And don’t forget to set the volume of the ‘Speaker’ channel.

After installing Arch Linux on my new Samsung X125 laptop I noticed that there were quite a few knobs I couldn’t turn when using just the drivers that come with the linux kernel. Most notably, I couldn’t toggle the ‘hardware’ wireless kill switch (it’s actually just a …

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