A few bits n bobs

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Jenny Blower">

> * Totem isn't playing all of my movie files.  i've tried to narrow down
> which type of files they are, but it seems to be some avi's, some mpg's
> etc.  it tends to flag up various .dll files missing (which, of course, i
> haven't noted down, but can get if they're needed!)
> 
> * Real media files.. using Windows i'd toddle to the site and download the
> player.. i'm kinda assuming i can't do that now, if so, what DO i do to
> play them?!

For various annoying legal reasons, multimedia and Linux are a hairy
combination. If you want a more pleasant experience, try adding 'universe'
to your /etc/apt/sources.list lines (you can do this in Synaptic too), and
install 'totem-xine'. You should be able to watch Real stuff too.

> * Webcam - tis plugged in, but, well, nothing! (intel CS330, if that's
> needed!)

Can you send the output of lsusb?

> so generally i'm loving my new, stable, stress free machine!

Woohoo! :-)

- Jeff

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