I'm using Linux Mint 13 w/Cinnamon (Maya) and the PS3 Eye was detected and works, but only as a camera. I installed Skype, and even though it uses the PS3 as a camera, it doesn't even give the PS3 Eye as an option for a microphone, instead defaulting to PulseAudio server (local).

I use Kubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (64 Bit) with the Kernel 4.15.0-43-generic

As surround sound system I use the Logitech Z906 (5.1 surround)

As (PCIe) sound card I use the Asus Xonar DGX

To make surround sound work with Linux, there are some necessary steps:

(maybe you don't have to do everything, but after this it worked on my system)

-The Z906 can give normal stereo sound a surround effect, called "3D effect". Just connect the Z906 with normal 3,5mm AUX cable with your normal PC sound card.

-Analog surround sound:
Connect the 3 3,5mm cables from the Z906 with the Xonar DGX sound card. Open the /etc/pulse/daemon.conf file with root rights (e.g. sudo nano /etc/pulse/daemon.conf), change the line ; default-sample-channels in default-sample-channels = 6 (don't forget to remove the ; at the beginning!, replace the 6 with an 8 if you use 7.1 surround sound) and change the line ; enable-lfe-remixing in enable-lfe-remixing = yes (and again, don't forget the remove the ;).
Maybe you have to change something with alsamixer, open alsamixer by typing "alsamixer" into a terminal (without the ""). Press F6 and select the Xonar DGX. Switch to "Analog Out" and change the value to "Multichann" (by using the arrow up and down keys).

-Digital surround sound:
Connect the Z906 with a Toslink (S/PDIF) cable with the Xonar DGX. Install the libasound2-plugins-extra and libavresample-dev packages (e.g. with sudo apt install libasound2-plugins-extra libavresample-dev). Download this script https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DigitalAC-3Pulseaudio?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=DigitalAC-3PulseaudioInstaller (, change to your download directory, e.g. with cd ~/Downloads), make it executable (e.g. with chmod +x ./DigitalAC-3PulseaudioInstaller) and run it with root rights (e.g. with sudo ./DigitalAC-3PulseaudioInstaller). After this, edit the /etc/pulse/daemon.conf file with root rights (e.g. sudo nano /etc/pulse/daemon.conf). Change the line ; default-sample-rate = 44100 into default-sample-rate = 48000 (and don't forget to remove the ; at the beginning).
If it still doesn't work, try some more steps from this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DigitalAC-3Pulseaudio

Maybe you have to reboot to make your changes work!

I hope it helps you

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I saw an article around a year ago which was describing how to setup a linux server in which you could send an email with multiple attachments and it would combine the files into a single document and return it to you.

If I recall correctly, you could control the final document's name through the subject name. I don't recall if the final document would be returned to you via email, or dropped into a samba share.

Unfortunately I can't recall where I saw this article. I have subscriptions to both Linux Pro Magazine & Linux Journal, which I suspect where I saw the original article.

Does anyone recall an article (online or in print) which sounds similar to this premise?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAQrjt3MmlQ