rizwanahmad

hello danleff...am very new to linux and installed fc5 a couple of days ago..i have a compaq presario notebook which comes with intel motherboad and built in sound/video chipset...i cannot play any mp3 or video file in fc5 ...fc5 detects my sound card and i can hear the testing sound but none of the players in fc5 plays the mp3 and video files that i have in cd's and in my hard disk..thanx alot for your help in advance..thanx

hey danleff...thanx alot for your quick reply...yes i did install the yum configuration reffered in FQA...and i have installed both GNOME and KDE GUI ...but cant play any mp3 or video files ...and i've got another problem now..well its not really a problem for me...but some other family members use the same computer that i use and they want the windows xp OS on it aswell...when i installed linux i only used the half of the hard drive..so partioning is not an issue...but when i reboot my pc with xp cd...it does boot up with cd but the screen does blank and nuthing happens...i've got this compaq note book which've got celeron 1.3 ghz processor...i'll be very thankful to you for your help...

hey danleff..hope you'll be doing good...i went through the mp3 section on unofficial fedora faq and i installed all plugins and packages mentioned there but i'm still unable to play the mp3 files..am searching to solve the problem but your guidence is always very appericiated..thanx..

hey there...i am very new to linux and just installed fedora core 5..how can i install yahoo messenger in fedora...thanx

thanx alot...gaim is a great messenger which allows you to log on to msn aswell...thanx