Three problems with Hoary

[david]

> >Mplayer doesn't work with Firefox. If I open a media file within
> >Firefox, it wants to user Mplayer, but the Mplayer controls are one
> >big black blob, and it never does anything. Yesterday I tried to view
> >a video feed with it; the video panel was just black.

Do you have the mplayer-plugin installed? I don't see any controls for
mplayer when it starts up, just a bit of information about
mplayer-plugin and a progress bar for the buffering.


> >Finally, I have a couple of items on my desktop - files I haven't
> >sorted, and a mounted external hard drive. If I mount another drive -
> >say, by inserting a CD - the icon appears *over* the first icon on the
> >desktop. Is there a way I can get the icons to auto-clean up?

Yes' I'd like to know how to stop this too.

regards

nux