Le mercredi 07 mars 2007 à 13:13 -0500, Mike Camden a écrit : > This is the first time I've dipped my toe in the Linux waters; it's > been a while since something computer-related has left me feeling this > ignorant. I've selected so many different options within the > Add/Remove and Synaptics package managers, that I'm wondering if I've > caused some kind of corruption (although the system prompts me that it > will remove conflicting packages as necessary). If someone can tell > me exactly which packages to install from the get-go to get the video > working, I'd be happy to wipe the partition that I have edubuntu on > and start from scratch to get it working. It's impossible to embed non-free algorithms in a free distribution.
Depending on where you live, you have (or not) the right to use non-free codecs. To watch videos, you could try VLC : http://www.videolan.org/eucd.html > I'm also having trouble getting the wireless to work and changing the > Grub so it defaults to booting to Windows instead of linux if I don't > make a choice in time (both on the Dell), but the issue of being able > to seamlessly play the videos in the browser are much more pressing. Try following this link : http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#menu.lst François -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
