<div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello there, and welcome! Ubuntu won't let you play closed source files by diffult cause then it wouldn't be free anymore, but the problem is easily solved, it just might not be legal for your country (generally the US and a few other countries it's illegal to do this). Goto this page: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats"> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats</a> It tells you how to play all your media.</blockquote> <div>[OT]</div> <div>They should have a US / Canada version that includes this by default, although its easy to do, people who are using Ubuntu as their first Linux install may have issues. My friend certainly did-- he went on for two weeks about how "Linux cant even play an MPEG file? Thats *SO* stupid!". So annoying! </div> <div>[/OT]</div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Also take a look through this page, as it has lots of great newbie info: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/index.html"> https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/index.html</a> Cheers, and Enjoy! On 8/16/06, Elsabe <<a href="mailto:elsabe@valic.co.za">elsabe@valic.co.za</a>> wrote: > > > hi, > I have just installed UBUNTU 6.06 on my AMD Athlone with the following > hardware; - 722 mb CPu, 256 mb ram, maxtor 80 g hhd, geforce fx 6200 > graphic card and some kind of DVD writer aaand no internet at home. > > i have never even considered to use linux before now and i must say i'm very > much impressed with what i got except for the fact that to a old microsoft > user, it's very different. > > the first thing i tested was to try and watch a movie, and needless to say, > it didn't work. the system said that i need some sort of codex or something > to enable me to watch VOB files. > > then i noticed my geforce card was not installed as a geforce but as a vga. > > then i tried to install a linux based game - and once again i made a total > mess of things. don't know how to intall. > > please remember i do not have internet access at home and i'm very definitly > going to learn this operating system, so can you help me on how and what i > must do. > > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > > > -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- ~Ian