My little Cheap Laptop had a problem. It has an Intel Mobile 4
video system which, when a nice guy said you may have a GTK problem, got
me started the right way in my Google search.
It took a while but then in a reference to the Mobile 4 that
Hardy will not work well with this computer because it has a lousy gtk
driver. The new Intrepid has a much improved gtk driver.
So I put 2 and 2 together and it all fell in place. I was
finding that Hardy would not come up every time and both Totem and VLC
would freeze the screen. I had to load it with the Alternate CD. Now
when I first tried Intrepid I had several unhappy problems, not of my
own making. I could not apt-get some things I wanted and updates were a
day late.
Last night I used the Intrepid LiveCD to load it again on the
lap-top and this time it wanted to update in 5 minutes 180 updates. I
let it do that and then d/l VLC and some things for that stupid Totem.
Totem can now display a DVD movie, but it still can't display local .wmv
short movie files. So the heck with Totem! VLC works fine and I can do
it all with no freezing of the screen.
I am prepared to love Intrepid because on the cheap laptop it is
the only Ubuntu that works :-)
Karl
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11-14-2008, 01:27 PM
David Vincent
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Karl Larsen wrote:
> Last night I used the Intrepid LiveCD to load it again on the
> lap-top and this time it wanted to update in 5 minutes 180 updates. I
> let it do that and then d/l VLC and some things for that stupid Totem.
> Totem can now display a DVD movie, but it still can't display local .wmv
> short movie files. So the heck with Totem! VLC works fine and I can do
> it all with no freezing of the screen.
install "ubuntu-restricted-extras" to get totem playing all the formats.
also maybe the "non-free-codecs" package from medibuntu.
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11-14-2008, 02:32 PM
Karl Larsen
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David Vincent wrote:
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>> Last night I used the Intrepid LiveCD to load it again on the
>> lap-top and this time it wanted to update in 5 minutes 180 updates. I
>> let it do that and then d/l VLC and some things for that stupid Totem.
>> Totem can now display a DVD movie, but it still can't display local .wmv
>> short movie files. So the heck with Totem! VLC works fine and I can do
>> it all with no freezing of the screen.
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> install "ubuntu-restricted-extras" to get totem playing all the formats.
> also maybe the "non-free-codecs" package from medibuntu.
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Nope. VLC is so superior to Totem for all things I will just leave
Totem alone.
It was just easy to test with Totem if Intrepid really fixed the freeze
problem :-)
Karl
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