December 12th, 2007 |

I was having some issues playing videos on Ubuntu, do to my Graphics Card i think but i found a fix –
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1. Make sure gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is installed
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
2. Run gstreamer-properties
macbuntu:~$ gstreamer-properties
3. Change the video output plugin to custom
4. Change the video output pipeline to:
ffmpegcolorspace ! video/x-raw-yuv,format=(fourcc)YV12 ! xvimagesink
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December 11th, 2007 |

Finally got Ubuntu 7.10 working on my laptop(Dell Inspiron E1505).
Got my wireless working using this tutorial:
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Once i was connected to the internet i was asked if i wanted to install Restricted for my ATI card –
ATI binary X.Org driver
I also got hold of GLUT which was a headache heres the command:
sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
Here is a picture of my desktop

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