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Well the problem with your video (XviD) is its on NTFS, Linux does not like that file system, your best bet is to reformat it to FAT32, as windows XP (if your using Vista on it...I don't know, haven't done much messing around with Vista file formats) works on FAT32 just fine, and so does everything else. Plus Linux reads it natively.
The add-on your talking about mitigates the problem, but does not resolve it totally, I have an EXT3 format that Ubuntu runs on, and a FAT32 partition where I store stuff to be transfered, as some mobile hard drives do not like my Ubuntu partition.
As for your graphics...that bites, on-board video has been nothing but problems for everyone I know, so good job finding a fix for it bud, I know I pulled my hair out trying to get my old ATI card to work under Linux, ended up just buying the two Nvidia cards to solve the problem.
Edit: and to the comment about copying the Xorg, your right, but I rushed it, then forgot to do it, and the third time I managed to bungle things up so terribly the kernel wouldn't load at all, it just sat at my bios screen. Now I have a working Xorg and current xorg on a flash drive just in case.
Yeah, seriously. All you need is "cp xorg.conf xorg.old", then fuck around with it. Everything fails? "rm xorg.conf\n mv xorg.old xorg.conf" and victory, you're back up and running.
Also, that video problem is mad crazy. I have never have that problem and I have all kinds of videos hanging around on my NTFS partition. Make sure that you're using the latest NTFS3G or whatever it's called.
I read that the latest NTSF plays nice with linux, but I know I had a similar issue on a partition, simply reformatted it and haven't had a problem since, so its usually my advice, if your using Linux as a primary OS, keep everything in a friendly format, but if your dual booting or whatever, there are workarounds and sometimes simple fixes.
I am well aware of the ways to bring your xorg back to a working version but the problems where further compounded by other issues, and since I hadn't installed anything other then some drivers, it was just simpler to re-install and get a fresh look at it. That and I was pretty green to Linux at the time, and in my frustration found the simplest way to solve the dozen problems I had generated.
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The add-on your talking about mitigates the problem, but does not resolve it totally, I have an EXT3 format that Ubuntu runs on, and a FAT32 partition where I store stuff to be transfered, as some mobile hard drives do not like my Ubuntu partition.
As for your graphics...that bites, on-board video has been nothing but problems for everyone I know, so good job finding a fix for it bud, I know I pulled my hair out trying to get my old ATI card to work under Linux, ended up just buying the two Nvidia cards to solve the problem.
Edit: and to the comment about copying the Xorg, your right, but I rushed it, then forgot to do it, and the third time I managed to bungle things up so terribly the kernel wouldn't load at all, it just sat at my bios screen. Now I have a working Xorg and current xorg on a flash drive just in case.
I am well aware of the ways to bring your xorg back to a working version but the problems where further compounded by other issues, and since I hadn't installed anything other then some drivers, it was just simpler to re-install and get a fresh look at it. That and I was pretty green to Linux at the time, and in my frustration found the simplest way to solve the dozen problems I had generated.
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I did that too when I first started.
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