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====== Tips and tricks ======
===== Gordan's blog =====
Plenty of inspirational tricks including screen upgrade, overclocking, installing additional internal storage and more can be found at http://www.altechnative.net/.

===== Lid and jack insertion events =====
You can use a lightweight https://github.com/gandro/input-event-daemon, it should listen on ''/dev/input/event4'' for ''LID:0'' and ''LID:1'' events.

===== Video playback =====
To get maximum of the unaccelerated framebuffer driver you can use ''mplayer2'' (it uses libraries with SMP support) and this ''~/.mplayer/config''
<code>
ao=alsa
mixer-channel=Master
vo=x11
zoom=1
sws=0
hardframedrop=1
lavdopts=fast=1:skiploopfilter=all
</code>

===== Watching Youtube =====
<code>
#!/bin/sh
cookies_file=`mktemp /tmp/youtube-cookies.XXXXXX`
rm $cookies_file
url="`youtube-dl --cookies=$cookies_file -g --max-quality 35 $1`"
mplayer -cookies -cookies-file $cookies_file -cache 2048 $url
rm $cookies_file
</code>

===== Software sound mixing =====
To be able to hear simultaneous playback from different programs
copy this to ''/usr/share/alsa/cards/tegra-alc5632.conf'':
<code>
# default with dmix/dsnoop
tegra-alc5632.pcm.default {
	@args [ CARD ]
	@args.CARD {
		type string
	}
	type asym
	playback.pcm {
		type plug
		slave.pcm {
			@func concat
			strings [ "dmix:CARD=" $CARD ",RATE=44100" ]
		}
	}
	capture.pcm {
		type plug
		slave.pcm {
			@func concat
			strings [ "dsnoop:CARD=" $CARD ",RATE=44100" ]
		}
	}
}

</code>

===== Dedicated volume controls without PulseAudio =====
Add this to ''~/.asoundrc'':
<code>
pcm.softvol {
        @args [ NAME ]
        @args.NAME.type string
        type softvol
        slave.pcm "default"
        control.name $NAME
}
</code>
And use ''softvol:<custom name>'' for the ALSA device, like this: ''aplay -Dsoftvol:"Aplay Dedicated" testmusic.wav''

===== Handling bell events =====
You can use ''xkbevd'' to play an arbitrary sound when an XkbBell event is generated. For ''URvxt'' you need to tell it to use ''xkbbell'' for ''bellCommand''. A better solution would be to extend ''input-events-daemon'' to create a virtual input device capable of receiving a system bell, that way it'd work equally well for all programs even without X.

===== Wireless performance =====
  * [[http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download|compat-wireless]] provides newer wireless drivers that work better but wireless extensions (only needed for some specific programs using this deprecated interface, e.g. [[http://www.aircrack-ng.org/|aircrack-ng]]) will not be enabled until the kernel is compiled with support for some old pre-mac80211 driver (to select ''CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT'').
  * ''iw dev wlan0 set power_save off'' to improve interactivity when a power-saving compatible AP is used

===== Wireless connectivity without NetworkManager =====
Place this in ''/etc/network/interfaces'' (on a Debian-like system) to have automatic wifi roaming controllable with wpa_cli and support for the GSM/UMTS modem:
<code>
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
        wpa-driver nl80211
        wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

iface default inet dhcp

iface home inet dhcp

iface wwan0 inet dhcp
        pre-up stty -F /dev/ttyACM1 1:0:80001cb2:0:3:1c:7f:15:4:5:1:0:11:13:1a:0:12:f:17:16:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 2> /dev/null || \
               stty -F /dev/ttyACM1 1:0:80001cb2:0:3:1c:7f:15:4:5:1:0:11:13:1a:0:12:f:17:16:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
        pre-up chat -v TIMEOUT 30 ""                                    \
                        AT OK                                           \
                        AT+CGREG=1 OK                                   \
                        AT+CFUN=1 "+CGREG: 1"-AT+CFUN=1-"+CGREG: 1"     \
                        "" ABORT ERROR ""                               \
                        AT*ENAPDBG=1 OK                                 \
                        "AT*ENAP=1,1" "*ENAPDBG: 1,1"-"AT*ENAP=1,1"-"*ENAPDBG: 1,1" < /dev/ttyACM1 > /dev/ttyACM1 || \
                                 ! chat -v "" AT*E2RESET < /dev/ttyACM1 > /dev/ttyACM1
        post-down chat -v "" AT+CFUN=4 OK < /dev/ttyACM1 > /dev/ttyACM1
</code>

This assumes your card has PIN disabled, if it's not, you should be able to add ''AT+CPIN="abcde"'' command where appropriate. If you hot-swap the SIM card you might need to issue the ''AT*E2RESET'' command manually. The modem supports messaging via SMS and USSD requests, e.g. this works with Beeline to see the amount of money left:
<code>
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/chat -vs "" "AT+CUSD=1,\"*102#\",15" "OK" < /dev/ttyACM1 > /dev/ttyACM1 
</code>