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IEisEVIL

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« on: 25 October 2003, 04:37 »
I am not a "newbie" when it comes to computers, but I am new to Linux! I setup a dual boot configuration on my machine (XP Pro/Redhat 9) and I was wondering if I could get some help on a few things:

*How do I add MP3 support to Redhat 9, and can Linux play WMA files?

*I have a FAT32 partition with my music on it, how would I go about mounting it so that I can listen to my music?

*I'd like to install the Real Player plugin, Java 1.4.2 plugin and the Flash/Shockwave plugin for Mozilla 1.5, how would I go about doing this?

*I have an ATI Radeon 9200 (New card) and Redhat 9 does not have drivers for this, so I have to use these horrible standard drivers, is there a better driver I can use for my card so I'm not stuck in 800x600?

Thanks in advance   !

The Anti-Microsoft

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« Reply #1 on: 25 October 2003, 05:08 »
MP3 support in Red Hat 9 ...
http://havardk.xmms.org/dist/xmms-1.2.7-rh8-rh9-rpm/

 
quote:
The short summary

 You only need to install this rpm to be able to play mp3's in Red Hat 8 / 9:
 xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm

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« Reply #2 on: 25 October 2003, 05:27 »
LOL What did you use to meake that pic in the sig? MS Word? hahahahah
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« Reply #3 on: 25 October 2003, 05:57 »
A wild guess: GIMP?
Plugin: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/
Mounting FAT32: mount -vfat /dev/hdaX /mnt/hdaX


I'm a Linux noob too so don't trust me too much on this.
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« Reply #4 on: 25 October 2003, 06:57 »
quote:
Originally posted by e7ement:
LOL What did you use to meake that pic in the sig? MS Word? hahahahah


No,  http://www.iqauto.com/cgi-bin/3dgen.pl .

I didn't feel like using the GIMP.

The "Values" I Entered

Text to be rendered:  The Anti-Microsoft
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If style is an arc, specift angle of arc:  15
Camera offset--Vertical:  -10
Camera offset--Horizontal:  0
Background distance:  None
Shadows:  No
RGB Color--Red:  255
RGB Color--Green:  255
RGB Color--Blue:  255
Special effects--YWeave:  0
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Then I copy and pasted it into the KDE paint program, trimmed it to be more like a banner, and saved it as a ".jpg" file.

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« Reply #5 on: 25 October 2003, 11:46 »
http://faq.belg88.com/index.php?op=view&t=6

Why does no one read the darn FAQ anymore?

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« Reply #6 on: 26 October 2003, 05:11 »
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Originally posted by TheQuirk:
http://faq.belg88.com/index.php?op=view&t=6

Why does no one read the darn FAQ anymore?


noone knows about it. there should be a link with the rest of the navigation.

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« Reply #7 on: 26 October 2003, 21:36 »
quote:
Originally posted by Enmity:
A wild guess: GIMP?
Plugin: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/
Mounting FAT32: mount -vfat /dev/hdaX /mnt/hdaX


I'm a Linux noob too so don't trust me too much on this.



to mount a fat32 drive, it isn't nessisary to say it's vfat

the easiest thing to do is to make a /c directory, or at least that is what i always to:
mkdir /c
then, to mount your 'windows c' drive, lets say it is hda1, in linux, type:
mount /dev/hda1 /c


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« Reply #8 on: 26 October 2003, 21:10 »
quote:
Originally posted by Ecsyle:

noone knows about it. there should be a link with the rest of the navigation.



It's in the god damn forum DESCRIPTION! Calum, Tux, Panos, the others and I didn't spend hours on that darn thing for nothing!

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« Reply #9 on: 26 October 2003, 21:52 »
If you want to always have your FAT32 partition available put an entry in your /etc/fstab file (you need to be root to edit this, so either log in as root or "su -" in a console first).

You make a folder somewhere (usually under /mnt) which is where the filesystem will be mounted, and then can specify other options to mount to tell it who can access it, whether it is auto-mounted and so on.

e.g. to allow all users to mount your first HD partition on mountpoint /mnt/c you would have

/dev/hda1   /mnt/c   vfat   defaults,umask=000    0 0

(all on 1 line if it isn't)

in your fstab. If you like you can add an icon for the partition to your desktop, under KDE a small green triangle indicates whether the partition is mounted or not, you can right-click it to do so, after which point it will be available to other programs when you navigate to /mnt/c.

Although it's for Gentoo there is quite a good decription of it here (from Step 2 on, your kernel is already compiled for RedHat):

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29285
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« Reply #10 on: 26 October 2003, 21:55 »
Another small note, the execute bit for directories in linux determines whether you can enter into a directory or not, this may not be obvious at first.
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