Hi,

I have installed Ubuntu "jaunty jackalope" 9.04 on the second hard drive on my shiny new build budget PC (£270 for the tower including fans etc). I have been playing around with it for a couple of weeks and like it very much, apart from the joy of getting the ATI driver to work on my too-new HD4650 (everyone has fun with that from what I've read), it has been a fun and much faster experience. I took a while to get used to the method of installation, - python 2.6.2 took a couple of tries.

One thing I tried was just slinging a DVD film into the DVD drive to see if it would work. The default movie player tried to download updates to play it but failed. I then tried VLC media player, but this also surrendered without success.

I have read that this is a current issue on 9.04 due to issues with proprietary codecs etc, but what I don't get is that apparently this issue does not exist for version 8.04... so they decided to fix it???

Does anyone know a work-around or a different program to install that might work? Please include any command-line stuff I need, I'm still getting the hang of the new commands. Thanks.

p.s. thanks to forquare1 for redirecting me here from the broken PC Pro website!

p.p.s the grey text under my name on the right of the screen says that I have a life It's official!

Hey, good to see you over here

I'm not an Ubuntu user, but after having a wee look I reckon this page could be worth a look

Hope that helps

Ben

It's working perfectly, thanks for the info!

Ace! Glad it works for you