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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: IEisEVIL on 25 October 2003, 04:37
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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 (http://smile.gif) !
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MP3 support in Red Hat 9 ...
http://havardk.xmms.org/dist/xmms-1.2.7-rh8-rh9-rpm/ (http://havardk.xmms.org/dist/xmms-1.2.7-rh8-rh9-rpm/)
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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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LOL What did you use to meake that pic in the sig? MS Word? hahahahah
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A wild guess: GIMP?
Plugin: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/ (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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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 (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
Depth of text: .5
Font: Dolphin Bold
Font texture: Solarized
Background texture: Orb
Stlye: Arc
Size of rendering: 320x240
Image format: .jpg
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
Special effects--Shaken: 0
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.
[ October 24, 2003: Message edited by: The Anti-Microsoft ]
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http://faq.belg88.com/index.php?op=view&t=6 (http://faq.belg88.com/index.php?op=view&t=6)
Why does no one read the darn FAQ anymore?
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quote:
Originally posted by TheQuirk:
http://faq.belg88.com/index.php?op=view&t=6 (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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Originally posted by Enmity:
A wild guess: GIMP?
Plugin: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/ (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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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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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 (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29285)
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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.