xine was working but i tried to start it up and it says its got a segmentation fault.
xmms also said this but i was able to fix it by updating it and so i tried this with xine and it just tells me that ive already got it installed.

any ideas??
cheers.

distro? update method?
You need to be a little more specific to get an answer.

well i tried to re install xine as this worked for xmms useing the same rpm file but this didnt help i then tried to use yum and the same thing. i also tried aother versions of xine and this still didnt help.

i think i used rpm -ivh <file> to install and rpm -Uvh <file> to try and update it but it said it was already the latest version.

also now randomly doom 3 doesnt work properly and the other day the screen completely screwed up and when i tried to log in it just froze.

i think a reinstall is in need but i installed it about 3 weeks ago.

as you can probably tell i am a newby and so and ideas are greatly appreciated (even if not understood)

cheers

reinstallingn isn't useful without uninstalling first. Rpm will check if a n app is installed and do nothing if it finds an installed app with the same name/number. It may be that you got a broken package from one repo, but trying to update it or install on top of it with a working package from another repo isn't going to do anything as rpm will think it's the very same package you've already got installed and do nothing.

To uninstall, use rpm -e <packagename> or yum remove <packagename>

Another thing you could try is running xine-check from the command line to see if it reports anything you can fix.

everything is working now for media but i cant install my graphics drivers. ill post in the correct area. thanx for the help.

Still wondering about your distro.

If it happens to be fedora, check out the suggestions for installing video drivers at www.fedorafaq.org