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Fixing Problems

My mum uses a Dell laptop running Ubuntu. Each time I visit I get to fix any problems that have cropped up. To be fair, there weren't that many so far.

• libdvdcss2 was not installed. I explained why, and fixed it.
• DVD menus were not being played in totem-gstreamer - the DVD would autorun, but you could not change to other titles. If you restarted totem with a different menu option you could at least set up a playlist with all the titles. It's a shame, because I like gstreamer, but as a quick fix I installed totem-xine and set it to autorun for DVDs instead.
• Upgraded to Intrepid. Fairly uneventful.
• Installed wine so that horrible non-free heart rate monitor software might possibly run.
• Introduced mum to pidgin.
• There seem to be some problems with sound recording - I started setting up Ekiga, but this is a blocker. Might not have time to fix this.

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 00:00 | Tags: Planet WUGLUG, Planet UWCS, ubuntu