Would installing Quicktime help?

[katmac]

Hey guys! Alright, after having to save the entire system, (and DOING so!), I'm getting cocky I say!

Rubberman was kind enough to help me set up sharing folders between my old desktop running Windoze (!) and the Acer. Some work just fine, but others are having all the problems with running too slow, etc. using both VLC and Gnome-mplayer.

I have Quicktime installed on the desktop and they run just fine, but the desktop has no SOUND. (To be technical, I BOUGHT the Acer to watch the videos!!).

Now, when the computer blew up last week (an error message of failed to initialize HAL that took us a week and 20 PAGES of forum time and effort to FIX!!), I went out and bought a flash USB stick, with 4GB worth of storage available on it. This morning, I thought that perhaps I'd try to move a video over and even one that's only 3 mins long was too big to be transferred over to the flash drive!!

Would installing Quicktime on the Acer help at all?

[devils casper]

Which Graphics Card do you have? Are you using correct Graphics Driver?

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

[katmac]

On it!!! Here's what I got....

[user@localhost ~]$ sudo lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
[user@localhost ~]$ grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Driver "kbd"
Driver "synaptics"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "intel"
[user@localhost ~]$

[jmadero]

quicktime won't make it run better, VLC should work just fine. Please post your xorg

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg. conf

copy paste the content into here

Also, what distro are you running?

[katmac]

Here's what I got...

[root@localhost ~]# sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg. conf
sudo: gedit: command not found
[root@localhost ~]#

I THINK I'm running Fedora...

[jmadero]

try changing kbd to vesa in your xorg

you aren't using fedora if you don't have gedit (I believe)....try using vi

in terminal

su
password

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[katmac]

Thanks! Here's what I'm seeing....

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "yes"
Option "DontVTSwitch" "yes"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Synaptics Mouse" "AlwaysCore"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "euro"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

"/etc/X11/xorg.conf" 83L, 2053C

[jmadero]

wow that is a strange xorg....usually you'd have a monitor section and a graphics driver section...hmmm

I'm really curious what distro you're running. I have a feeling it's Linpus....which almost any moderator will tell you isn't worth the time and to switch to a major distro as soon as possible.

Do you see "system" up on the top panel? Are you willing to try another distro like Ubuntu? or any of the other major distros (Open Suse, Fedora Core, etc..?) If you're running Linpus it's really not a good distrobution. Did it come on the acer or did you install it? I believe that Linpus is what was being shipped with that computer and a lot of people got angry at linux because that distro failed to give them what they expected

[devils casper]

Press Alt+F2 and type this

gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Replace Driver "intel" with "vesa" in Video Card section. Save file and press Alt+Ctrl+Backspace or reboot machine.

[jmadero]

hmm it says gedit command not found DC. Also, she posted her xorg.conf and it doesn't show the video card at all (unles of course she forgot to scroll down )