New experiences with Dapper Drake CD flight 7 on Acer as5672WLMi

[Frank Golden]

Hi AllWell I've been busy last couple of days, setting up Dapper Drake CD flight 7 dual boot with XP Pro on a spareHDD. Had to manually install ATi drivers and manually mount my Fat 32 shared partition (25GB) and my read only XP partitions. I would like to know how to change the name of my Fat 32 partition or at least the desktop shortcut. Googling didn't help. It is presently named sda6 like to name it something more descriptive. Can't get commercial DVD's to play in Totem or Xine. Tried downloading and installing libdvdcss as sugested by others on web but I must be doing something wrong. Audio CD's play fine but open in Sound Juicer I would like them to open with CD Player (Gnome) but can't seem to find any info on web. I know this is easily done but I forgot how.It's tough getting old. LOL. All sounds play well through my Audigy 2 NX usb sound card except web based sounds from Pandora etc. Same problem we had before with HP laptop. Doesn't appear to be BIOS switch on this machine to turn off internal sound.Again I am very impressed with Dapper and can't wait for the final release.I just hope the update routine don't break what I have already. Judging from what I've seen so far it probably wont be a problem.I would appreciate any guidance on the issues I mentioned earlier. You guys have made it easy to remainenthusiastic about Linux.Thanks AllP.S. I am writing this from my shiny new Linux machine.

Edited May 18, 2006 by Frank Golden

[Bruno]

I would like to know how to change the name of my Fat 32 partition or at least the desktop shortcut

Well Frank . . that could be a bit of a problem . . because those desktop icons are dynamically created when the booting process mounts the partitions ( it only shows the mounted ones )We can try to edit the /etc/fstab and the entry in /media to see if that helps ( no guarantee though ) . . . . . so let us start with this:- what is the name you would like it to have ?- please show us the result of

# cat /etc/fstab

UPDATE: I did a test on my Ubuntu install and indeed with the answers on the two questions I asked you above it can be done

Can't get commercial DVD's to play in Totem or Xine. Tried downloading and installing libdvdcss as sugested by others on web but I must be doing something wrong.

I would have a look if "mplayer" is available in the package manager ( synaptics ) of Ubuntu . . . . . . and next to libdvdcss you need libcss . . . . libdvdread and libdvdplay can help too . . . . If all fails: Ubuntu has the "Ogle" dvd-player . . . maybe try that one ;) BrunoPS: Congrats on the new Linux Laptop !

[Frank Golden]

Well Frank . . that could be a bit of a problem . . because those desktop icons are dynamically created when the booting process mounts the partitions ( it only shows the mounted ones )We can try to edit the /etc/fstab and the entry in /media to see if that helps ( no guarantee though ) . . . . . so let us start with this:- what is the name you would like it to have ?- please show us the result of

# cat /etc/fstab

UPDATE: I did a test on my Ubuntu install and indeed with the answers on the two questions I asked you above it can be done ;)I would have a look if "mplayer" is available in the package manager ( synaptics ) of Ubuntu . . . . . . and next to libdvdcss you need libcss . . . . libdvdread and libdvdplay can help too . . . . If all fails: Ubuntu has the "Ogle" dvd-player . . . maybe try that one BrunoPS: Congrats on the new Linux Laptop !

Hi Bruno, All I had to do was mkdir a folder in media named Linux ( the name I wanted for my Fat 32 sharing partition)and then change fstab to point /dev/sda6 (the name of my Fat 32 partition) at /media/Linux. Will try your suggestions for DVD.

[Bruno]

All I had to do was mkdir a folder in media named Linux ( the name I wanted for my Fat 32 sharing partition)and then change fstab to point /dev/sda6 (the name of my Fat 32 partition) at /media/Linux.

Bingo ! . . That was 100% what I had planned for you ! . . . . . You're a bright pupil !! Bruno

[Frank Golden]

Bingo ! . . That was 100% what I had planned for you ! . . . . . You're a bright pupil !! Bruno

Thanks!Tried installing Ogle now have three players that won't play DVD movies, seriously though,both Ogle and Xine start up movie all right but don't get past FBI warning.( BTW George Carlin says an acronym is an abbreviation that sounds like a word, therefore FBI and CIA aren't acronyms they're just ***holes) Ogle and Xine just shut down with no error message and Totem doesn't try it just says I'm missing a plugin but don't say which one. On a related note when I finally get a player to work how to I change it to default like I need to do with my CD audio autoplay? Edited May 18, 2006 by Bruno

[Bruno]

Hi FrankLooks like it is a known problem . . . have a look here: http://easylinux.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/...per-drake-beta/( fiddling a bit more with the DMA in the end of the article should get better results then the writer of the article has )About Totem: It can not be the plugin because Xine does show the FBI warning okay so the plugin is there :DB) Bruno

[mhbell]

Thanks!Tried installing Ogle now have three players that won't play DVD movies, seriously though,both Ogle and Xine start up movie all right but don't get past FBI warning.( BTW George Carlin says an acronym is an abbreviation that sounds like a word, therefore FBI and CIA aren't acronyms they're just ***holes) Ogle and Xine just shut down with no error message and Totem doesn't try it just says I'm missing a plugin but don't say which one. On a related note when I finally get a player to work how to I change it to default like I need to do with my CD audio autoplay?

Don't know if this will help with Dapper or not but it was suggested for Suse 10.1 You might have a look at the links.Mel

w32codecs if you want to play video files that normally do play on Windows but fail on Linux. It will give you more audio and video codecs for use by Kaffeine and/or MPlayer (two video players; See http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ for more details and/or http://fr2.rpmfind.net/ for a download link.

[Frank Golden]

Bingo ! . . That was 100% what I had planned for you ! . . . . . You're a bright pupil !! Bruno

Update, I found an easier way to change the names of mounted NTFS and FAT 32 drive icons.Just change the name while in Windoze XP.

[teacher]

Changing the name in Windows should have no impact. If you want Linux to identify them the way you want you need to label them that way in Linux.

[Frank Golden]

Changing the name in Windows should have no impact. If you want Linux to identify them the way you want you need to label them that way in Linux.

Hi Teacher, If I change the name of my Fat 32 partition to whatever I want in Windows XP on my dual bootXP/Dapper machine it becomes that in Dapper or at least the desktop icon/shortcut that represents the mounted drive that is My Fat 32 shared partition. I have Dapper Drake setup to mount all my XP partitions( Frank's Computer, Frank's Programs Etc and SharedLinux) at bootup and display a shortcut for each on the desktop. My original setup had the Fat 32 partition in XP with no label so it showed up on the Linux desktop as sda6, while the other two (NTFS) ones which were named Frank's Computer and Frank's Programs Etcshow up on the desktop as what they are labeled in XP. With this arrangement I am able to access my XP partition data (read only) and my shared storage (Fat 32) partition (read/write) from the Dapper Desktop.The two NTFS partitions are still labeled sda1 and sda3 in fstab. I really only wanted to change the name of the desktop shortcut for the Fat 32 drive which I couldn't do with a simple right click like in Windows. The Linux way was to mkdir a folder or mount point in /media with the selected name and then edit /etc/fstab to have sda6 mount there. A little more complicated.update: just confirmed by changing fstab back to original config and changing name of Fat 32 partition in XP.Desktop short cut remained named LinuxShared. Interesting side note the name is all upper case.?BTW, my two XP partitions are primary partitions while Dapper Drake the Swap and my Fat 32 partitions are logical partitions of a extended partion. I had to setup this way because of the limitations on number of primary partitions. Works though. Edited May 20, 2006 by Frank Golden

[teacher]

Glad it worked for you. I just give mount names of what I want. I use /mnt/xp or /mnt/e or whatever.

[burninbush]

Glad it worked for you. I just give mount names of what I want. I use /mnt/xp or /mnt/e or whatever.

Some distros -- and I have no clue why -- pick up the 'volume name' from disks named by windows, and some others don't. I just yesterday copied an image of my recent Suse 10.1 install to this amd64 box, and can see that it is displaying [onscreen icons, Storage Media] the Windows names of my partitions.

[Bruno]

BTW, my two XP partitions are primary partitions while Dapper Drake the Swap and my Fat 32 partitions are logical partitions of a extended partion. I had to setup this way because of the limitations on number of primary partitions. Works though.

LOL . . . yep on an IDE drive you can only have 4 primary partitions . . . but you can have up to 60 logical partitions in an extended one. ( total 63 max ) Bruno

[Frank Golden]

LOL . . . yep on an IDE drive you can only have 4 primary partitions . . . but you can have up to 60 logical partitions in an extended one. ( total 63 max ) Bruno

Hi Bruno, Is a SATA drive IDE?Anyway it's good to have more than one way to attack a problem.

[Bruno]

I think SATA is an SCSI drive ( correct me if I am wrong ) . . . and on a SCSI drive the maximum number of partitions is 15 . . a lot less then the 63 on a ATA drive. Bruno

[burninbush]

I think SATA is an SCSI drive ( correct me if I am wrong ) . . . and on a SCSI drive the maximum number of partitions is 15 . . a lot less then the 63 on a ATA drive. Bruno

Sorry, no, SATA is ide with a serial external interface [serial ATA]. SCSI has totally different interface hardware, most use 16-bit parallel cabling and you can daisy-chain a bunch of devices. For some reason linux calls both of these types /sdX -- something common about the drivers?? Dunno. We note also that usbsticks are found using the same /sdX convention. The '15' you are thinking about is the number of devices [disks, tapes, opticals, printer, scanner, whatever] you can have on a single daisy-chain cable. Wide SCSI has 4 bits of address, giving 16 device selects, one of which has to be the controller, leaving 15 for the user. The number of partitions that can be recognized is a feature of the running OS, has nothing to do with the drive hardware, it only knows cylinders and heads and sectors.

[Bruno]

Just found the same info: 63 partitions on a SATA drive too ! Bruno

[Frank Golden]

Just found the same info: 63 partitions on a SATA drive too ! Bruno

Thanks for the info on SATA, I guess I should have googled. LOL