Totem

[iodine at runbox.no]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     I am lost it appears. On my cheap lap-top I got Hardy loaded using 
>> the Alternate CD and it looked perfect and was so I think. I got 170 
>> updates and it was really what I wanted.
>>
>>     Then I did a really stupid thing. I tried to look at a file with 
>> totem. Of course it could not play the file and it said you need some 
>> more special files, 2 in fact. I installed both and they ruined ALL my 
>> Sound and Video things.
>>
>>     These 2 files were from a computer outside the USA and they are 
>> faulty in some way. I did not write down the name of the files. If you 
>> know the file names I can remove them and get my Sound and Video systems 
>> working again.
>>
>>     I did look at Google and put in ubuntu,totem,freeze and got several 
>> thousand web things to read. I find this is a very common PROBLEM. But 
>> after reading 15 of them there was no solution offered except to re-load 
>> your ubuntu and the next step is to with great haste delete all of totem.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>   
>     Well it is now clear the VLC problem is something to do with the 
> lap-top. I re-loaded Hardy which was easy and the updates are flowing. I 
> did d/l VLC and delete totem and found that VLC still freezes the 
> computer. No idea what it might be but it is not a problem with Totem.

Sounds very much like a gfx driver problem.

Odd