Thanks to Chockalingam and Mark, mplayer had a pile of dependencies, one of which wasn't available on RHEL WS 4. Yum itself also had a pile of dependencies, so I ended up installing apt-get then loading ogle (which left a blank screen) and xine (which worked fine). We ran an "Open Source for Developers" event today at IBM in London (with Red Hat, MySQL, JBoss, IBM Rational, thedeveloperscatalogue.com<http://thedeveloperscatalogue.com>, O'Reilly, International Developer Magazine, Jaycore and more) and spent two hours trying to get the projection equipment working using my Thinkpad. Talking to Jono Bacon during one break, he tells me that Ubuntu is getting pretty slick at getting all the "boring" features of most laptops working with no user intervention (they tend to buy examples of commonly purchased PCs and set up single CD distributions that configure all the common options). He also said that it also sets up totem nicely. I do know that HP have started selling a Ubuntu based laptop now - as Ubuntu did all the configuration work for free. The Video worked okay on Windows but was CPU challenged (at lower resolution) on Red Hat... so some tuning work required on my part. Time wasn't on my side today. I wish Red Hat (or the community around it) had done likewise. I feel another project coming on! With Best Wishes, Ian W. -- Ian Waring - Simplicity Sells! ian.waring@xxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
