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I installed MX Linux on an ASUS X205T ebook in order to make it useful again. The installation went well but I am unable to play a video. I have tried Firefox and Falcon using youtube and vimeo. The sites load but when I click on a video the spinning circle never stops. There also appears to be no sound. I have ran all of the updates that were available. Is there something else I need to install?
The connection is fine. Websites all open. I used the same USB installer on a similar ASUS T100 and everything works - sound video etc. So I think I'm missing some drivers on the the X205T but I don't know what.
Update - when I did the test with the T100, I was running off the USB. I installed to the hard drive and now I have the same situation as the X205T. Spinning circle and no sound.
One more thing. I thought I would try a different linux distribution - lubuntu - to see if the problems would go away. Made a UEFI bootable USB with Rufus using a 32bit version, but the computer won't boot from the usb. Just keeps going back to the installed version even though I have changed the boot order in BIOS. Any ideas?
I don't know how to check the logs. Could you elaborate or direct me to an explanation. Thanks
Linux logs just about everything and all the logs are stored in /var/log. Some distros require you to use sudo to read them. The main one is /var/log/messages which contains messages from both the kernel and various daemons (background processes). Xorg.0.log is the one to check for possible videocard problems.
I installed MX Linux on an ASUS X205T ebook in order to make it useful again. The installation went well but I am unable to play a video. I have tried Firefox and Falcon using youtube and vimeo. The sites load but when I click on a video the spinning circle never stops. There also appears to be no sound. I have ran all of the updates that were available. Is there something else I need to install?
Possibly...you don't say what site(s) you're playing videos from, or if you've tried local media with a media player (like mplayer or VLC) and what the results were there. Step 5 here: https://averagelinuxuser.com/after-i...install-codecs
Sorry, I was busy and didn't get back to this project. I am trying to play YouTube videos. I installed the MX Codex but that doesn't help. I downloaded a sample MP4 video and it will play on VLC. When I was running off the USB before installing to the hard drive, You tube would play with sound so it is within the capabilities of the computer.
I tried installing several versions of the i965 driver 64amd and i386. I get unmet dependencies error. Also installed snap to be able to download thorium browser. Snap seemed to install but it doesn't see core or any package. I would try a different linux distribution but when usb boot is set in bios, I can't get it to boot from a usb. Just boots back into MX.
I am trying to [lay you tube videos. The site opens normally with all of the previews of the videos showing as normal. When I click on one it opens but just has the spinning circle over it and it never stops playing. The computer is capable of playing them because it worked when I was running off the USB before I installed MX.
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