Thursday, May 26, 2005

Mplayer installation .. Fedora core 3

None of the default player with fedora support DVD/VCD etc.... I installed Mplayer with Blue Skin. Now I am able to use gmplayer after installing Skin at DATADIR.
It supports .VOB, MP3 but still not able to play .DAT file. But overall Mplayer is a good player. Whenever I tried mplayer for .dat file it says "Seek failed".

You can download the mplayer and its skins from
"http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html"

Few things for installation ....
1. It requires Skin for gmplayer , No default Skin is provided by default
2. Copy Skin in "default" Skin directory - Easy way

Monday, May 23, 2005

Fecord Core 3 on My Toshiba A75-S206

I lost my Windows-XP After partition magic's megical partition. Then I decided to give Linux a chance to prove that Its better than Windows.

After Mr. Google provided me good information , finally I am using "Fedora Core 3" on my Laptop.

Few Points :
1. ACPI worked well with KDE but not with GNOME.
2. Sound card worked well with GNOME but not with KDE.
3. Touchpad worked well after disabling legacy USB support from BIOS.

Not tried Wi-Fi ..... One day I will try it also.