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I did have other issues with ubuntu though, but i fixed them easily by installing fedora instead :lol: found this on digg.com: this should get beryl to work for you. Start fresh and install your driver like so.. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI Then install beryl http://wiki....

Haven't got my hands on an ATI card for a while but have you looked at this?

erm, would have to check on that.
I know I have some movies in mpeg format but I know of no other details.
I'll try to dig up the movies and see what I can find out.

What I know is that my dvd player also plays mp3 files, I can load a cd with mp3's and it will play them.

Most of the dvd players out there will gladly play divX, the problem lies with divX 3.11, many of them won't play movies encoded with the hacked M$ codec, or if they do play the movie it often is choppy.
I have a Philips DVP630 and it plays all versions of divX and mpeg files I've ever thrown at it.

IF everything starts switching over to GPLv3 because from what I read Linus isn't convinced yet ...

What's up with all those patent deals between Micro$haft and linux vendors? First Novell, then Xandros and now Linspire, ... Not that I particularly like Xandros or Linspire, but still ... Who's next, and what kind of repercussions in the long run will all of this have on the distros that don't wish...

You have to look at the supported compression formats, if MPEG1 and MPEG2 are listed you should be safe. Also you can look if the dvd player can play VCD and SVCD files, if it's the case you also should be ok. (You can find all this pretty easily in the specs on the manufacturer's website) Like you ...

Congratulations man, I stopped at 2!

You have to put the ip address(es) of your dns in /etc/resolv.conf but this shouldn't affect your ability to browse local files. If you can ping the pc's then you could try to use scp to move files around, see if that works. If it works you're probably missing a package to be able to do it graphical...

Do you have the correct dns entry in your ethernet card configuration?
You would have to point it to your router's ip.
Have you tried pinging the pc's?

You could also think about dropping ugly gnome altogether

What I meant was going to tty2 and

I wasn't aware of the fat32 limitations regarding permissions so I reformated the whole drive to one big ext3 partition. rsync-ing everything back to the drive atm. Thanks for the help though, I have this mobile drive which is fat32 as well and which I use to carry my media files around so I might r...

erm, I feel like a total moron posting this but there's no entry in fstab for the external drive??? the mount point is /media/disk, the device is /dev/sdg1 and the filesystem is vfat I'm pretty convinced I have to match the UID and GID but I can't because I haven't got the permissions, both as root ...

Can you hit CTRL+ALT+F2 and look at /var/log/messages?
What I would try first is an apt-get update followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade.