[ILUG] Ubuntu - teething troubles

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use beep-meida-player is ok

On 8/2/06, Pangurban <pangurban at eircom.net> wrote:
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> Recently installed Ubuntu (6.06) on my trusty old machine.  Most of my
> previous Linux experience is with Red Hat (-> Fedora) (since 3) and have
> run into a few snags.
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> Configuring grub
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> noapic acpi=off -- is a required setting for my hardware.  So I added it
> to menu.list.  Having fumbled and found it.  But something, I assume the
> updater, is changing it back and leaving me without.  Bit of pain -
> having to re-edit on every restart. Anyone know how to make it a
> "default".
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> Configuring Apt-get
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> I had (almost) got the hang of YUM - could anyone tell me how best to
> configure Apt-get to deal with convenient  (lets say Irish) "repositories"
> ?
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> Configuring multimedia stuff
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> MP3s - (yes! for various reasons and I do not want to be convinced that
> Ogg Vorbis is better - it may be, but I want to use MP3).
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> Anyone have a step by step instruction as to how to get Rythmbox (or
> whatever) playing mp3s conveniently.  Had it in Fedora 5 from a howto
> and can (if I have to ) figure it out again  (but) a little help would
> be appreciated.
>
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> Regards,
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> Brian
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