[LBo] To debug or to debug, that is the question...

[Brice Hunt]

Jisao wrote:
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> So I installed Debian Etch, to see how it would do.   It  catches
> right away that it's eth1 it has to load, and not eth0 (I don't know
> why, but it works), and the driver installed is stable. No video crash
> (the screen turning to diagonal tight jagged lines) or mouse
> aberrations.  However, my user has to fight to do anything more than
> the basics.  My camera doesn't get detected automagically when I load
> it, no sound in Skype, no mp3 playing, no flash, no video codec
> installed.
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> Jisao
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I don't know about your camera or skype, but mp3 playing, flash, and
video codecs can be gotten by enabling the non-free and contrib
repositories from within synaptic (or by editing /etc/apt/sources.list)
and by adding a mirror of www.debian-multimedia.org to your
/etc/apt/sources.list file.

One of the many results produced by google for this problem is: 
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/60087-dvds-mp3-music-cds-wont-play.html

Brice