Certain problems are not resolved !

[David A' Rebel]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:39, Vilas Sukhadeve wrote:
> Dear  David,
> You know that I have installed Ubuntu 5.10 for my p.c.  With the help of
> you and others I am solving
> the problems one by one. Playing of audio/video c.ds.is mostly solved
> except that maximum audio cds. are not played in cd player but they can
> be played in totem and other programmes.  Likewise evolution mail is
> also started responding and I am sending you this mail through that
> only.
> Thanks! Let us go to other problems.
> 1:- Dialler(to get connected with the server) still can not be created
> on the desk top. How to do it?

  Does the dialler have a menu option ie is it on the start menu...If it does 
right click, add item to desktop. I'm a bit lost with the dialler option as I 
use a router and friends that have modem/routers use the ethernet connection 
so don't need to dial.

> 2:- What must be the problem with cd.player and how to resolve it?

 Ok I'm guessing you don't have a sound cable on your cd drive. If using kscd, 
you're not clear. But if it is go to extras, configure kscd enable direct 
digital playback.

> 3:- Real player is still could not be configured in spite of the
> commands given to terminal. It asks for password and while typing my
> password no single key of the key board operates. How to solve this ?

 You're not very clear here about what your are trying to do. I gave up with 
trying to install the realplayer deb and installed the rpm with alien. 
Download the rpm from the realplayer site. Install alien with sudo apt-get 
install alien. Then install the rpm with sudo alien -i name of package. Note 
this will install into /usr/local/RealPlayer or similar. You need to make a 
symbolic link somewhere like /usrbin. To do this cd /usr/bin then sudo 
ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/real   remember tab is your friend in a terminal, 
you don't have to type everything hitting tab will autocompleter

> 4:- While log in the colour screen becomes black&white and it takes much
> time to open desk top more over it says:- checking root file system
> /:clean 77960/1205312files(o.8% non contiguous , 541752/2407734 blocks.
> Error Temp failure in name resolution.
> Is it O.K. ?

   Not sure what's happening here someone more knowledgeable than I may be of 
more help.


> Solutions to KUbuntu and Ubuntu 5.10 , are they same ?

 At the x level yes but the gui's are different and do perform differently. So 
the answer is sometimes yes sometimes no.


> 5:- As soon as I open terminal it says "There was a problem with the
> command for this terminal: Text was empty (or contained only
> whitespace)" Then I have to open default terminal and start working but
> again it says bad command or asks for password and key board goes off.
> That root file system problem is still not resolved as it asks for
> password and no key from key board it accepts.
> These are some of the problem I seek to solutions for .
> With love
> Vilas
> (India)

  Again something I'm not familiar with or ever had happen so am at a loss. 
You could try installing yakuake and see if it works better, you will need 
the multiverse and universe repositories to do this.



>
> p.s.:- since I am computer illeterate , I get confused with the many
> terms. Is there any page which will help me getting friendly with the
> terms mostly used in operating the P.C.

  I'm not sure what you mean here visit www.ubuntu.com and read the wiki and 
faq's they may be of assistance.


> While using Ubuntu how to detect/clean viruses ?

Why ?

 There is clamav however.



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