Hi, this is my first post to this list, a short story on using Red Hat Linux 8.0. I've been wanting to have Psyche exclusively on my IBM Thinkpad T23 ever since the OS was released. Try as I might, there were a couple of things I couldn't figure out: playing mpeg video, and playing DVD's. I followed the directions as much as I could, but I always ended up getting garbled video (though the sound was OK). So I started off with a dual-boot setup, with Windows 2000 Professional. (I really like Windows 2000; I just don't like its creator <g>). Everything was peachy, and being as busy as I was (I'm a high school teacher), I didn't have time to do much tweaking or experimenting on my laptop. The only thing major that I did was to get my Linksys WPC11 to work (and it was pretty easy, to my surprise). Then came Christmas break. First, I saw the benefits of apt-get and synaptic. Using those programs, and armed with info from this list and elsewhere, I tried again to get mpeg video and DVD's working. Imagine my surprise when, after installing xine and its dependencies, that both mpeg video and DVD's would play! I was stunned. It wasn't working before! So I decided to take the plunge, reformatted the hard disk, and installed Psyche by itself on my laptop, with the WPC11 driver, with apt-get and synaptic, and with xine et al. Everything worked, more or less. As much as I liked Windows 2000, I have never been a fan of dual-booting for some reason, so I was happy to have Psyche alone and doing all that I need. Of course, not everything was perfect. It seems that I can only get xine to work from the command line, and with this command: xine -V XShm -A oss If I try to run xine from Sound & Video -> Xine, the window appears, and then disappears a fraction of a second later. Error, I guess. I then thought I could add the parameters in Xine's launcher (I edited the appropriate file in /usr/share/applications), but I still get the same result. I'm sure some here will tell me to ditch xine and go for Ogle or Mplayer; but I already have xine installed, and I really want to figure out how to get this working consistently, so I don't want to give up. If anyone has any insight on xine, I would appreciate it. I also was able to get the whole computer to freeze while using xine, which forced me to press the power button. On reboot, I noticed some things that were non-contiguous in the filesystem. Nothing major, right? Anyway, I'm happy with how my reinstall turned out. I can do word processing, spreadsheets, email, web browsing, mp3's, mpeg video, DVD's, and wireless networking on my laptop with Psyche, which is all I need at this point. Lot of the info that explained what to do came from this list, so thank you everyone. BP __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
