[ashaiba]

When I installed Ubuntu on my PC, all the codecs were missing plus my sound card wasnt working as well as my video cards drive wasnt working...


I think it's because i got a really bad version. Either that or something else. any help?

[cheesewheels99]

try mabye pclinuxos

[Cew27]

the codecs for media are not included with the cd but can be easily downloaded,
also what sound card do you have and what graphics card, most mainstream cards are supported
and finny what version gutsy gibbon? (7.10)

[cheesewheels99]

well if you switch to pclinuxos everything is there

[Cew27]

cheesewheels if someone came on here saying that their windows pc doesn't have the drivers for his camera and he needs them installing would you jump in and tell him to use mac because all the drivers are there.....

[cheesewheels99]

but they arnt all there! on a mac

[Cew27]

it was an example, if someone needs help with one thing don't tell them to get a different one

[ashaiba]

I have the good ol' nVidia 7600 with god knows what soundcard. its stock, came with my motherboard

[Cew27]

this should help, nvidia's linux drivers are superb

[Cew27]

did you get the driver?
also for anyone wanting ubuntu without wanting to download all the propitiatory codecs have a look at mint (ubuntu with codecs flash and java pre installed )

[ashaiba]

I took a look at mint. looks nice, whats the difference between it and ubuntu, and can I run all ubuntu software

[Cew27]

yes you can ubuntu is based on deb packages so all the software that's for ubuntu works with mint and debian, also all linux programs are interchangeable so you can run programs from any distribution but they sometimes aren't supplied in your specific package for exampled you could want a photo editor that is only available in rpm (red hat) if that's the case you can get the source and compile it in 30 seconds

linux mint is basically ubuntu with a better theme, all propietory codecs and with a few extra tools, anything you can do in mint you can do in ubuntu and vise versa it is just to make installation and setup easier
however there is no 64 bit available

[ashaiba]

Originally Posted by Cew27 yes you can ubuntu is based on deb packages so all the software that's for ubuntu works with mint and debian, also all linux programs are interchangeable so you can run programs from any distribution but they sometimes aren't supplied in your specific package for exampled you could want a photo editor that is only available in rpm (red hat) if that's the case you can get the source and compile it in 30 seconds linux mint is basically ubuntu with a better theme, all propietory codecs and with a few extra tools, anything you can do in mint you can do in ubuntu and vise versa it is just to make installation and setup easier however there is no 64 bit available

You seem to know a lot about Mint and Ubuntu, can I run Beryl on mint??? and can you help me do it, i don't know how

[Cew27]

you can run beryl or compiz on mint and ubuntu, i am running compiz but bery has more effect and looks better but i have heard it is a little less unstable