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i installed opensuse in my system.Everything was fine,but when i am using media player ,it wont play and it ask for codecs.and i dont know how to configure my network connections(i am using dail up connection)
and please help me to overcome this.
you cant connect to internet unless there is a modem driver and i dont think there will be any drivers for the dialup modem.try searching for appropriate drivers in http://linmodems.org/.
when i am using media player ,it wont play and it ask for codecs.
Many distros don't include video codecs as most of them are proprietary not free. Try searching for win32codecs using your package manager. If you can't find it you'll need to add a third-party repository that has the codecs.
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Originally Posted by m_gayatry
and i dont know how to configure my network connections(i am using dail up connection)
A dial-up connection is not a network connection but an Internet one (unless you're dialing into something like a BBS). If you mention which modem you're using we may be able to help if it's supported under Linux.
as iam a new user i am not able to work with the terminal in the os as i dont know any commands.i want to know the basics fully in linux and for that wat book i have to refer and i want to see the codes for the kernel and for other softwares.how can i?
actually i am doing mca and from the ug course itself i had an interest but now only i am refering lot of things about linux.really u peoples are very talented and i also want to be that.i also want to create my own linux distributions and i dont know whether it is easy or hard.
By default Ubuntu boots into graphical mode using Gnome. It could be that you installed Ubuntu server. You will need to install gnome.
If you installed desktop edition and still on terminal then login using your user name and password and type
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