I've been nursing this old desktop box along for a while...
I have the Medibuntu packages,
including libdvdcss2 & libdvdread4.
It would sometimes have difficulty reading PARTICULAR DVDs,
not recognizing them at all, or crashing the player, either at random,
or always at the exact same point in playback.
The installation has other issues, besides the age of the box,
but I won't jumble the intent of THIS thread.
Per posting recommendations in this sticky:
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...W-GUY-lt-lt-lt
I have included a system profile & benchmark output text file,
generated by package hardinfo.
These files contain much more than the minimum requested in the sticky.
I removed the computer host name, user names, network info,
environment variables, users & file systems,
because those MAY contain info that a malicious system cracker
could exploit.
Oddly, hardinfo does NOT report on GRUB, but I added that.
Yes, I currently have Ubuntu on this box, and do like KDE better.
Unfortunately this old hardware doesn't seem to be able to handle
the standard automagically generated Kubuntu implementation.
No other OSes or WUBI installed.
I do not have a GPU card, which might help things.
The money for a used GPU card MIGHT be better spend on a newer box.
I tried a search but did not find my answer.
Many thanks!
I have the Medibuntu packages,
including libdvdcss2 & libdvdread4.
It would sometimes have difficulty reading PARTICULAR DVDs,
not recognizing them at all, or crashing the player, either at random,
or always at the exact same point in playback.
The installation has other issues, besides the age of the box,
but I won't jumble the intent of THIS thread.
Per posting recommendations in this sticky:
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...W-GUY-lt-lt-lt
I have included a system profile & benchmark output text file,
generated by package hardinfo.
These files contain much more than the minimum requested in the sticky.
I removed the computer host name, user names, network info,
environment variables, users & file systems,
because those MAY contain info that a malicious system cracker
could exploit.
Oddly, hardinfo does NOT report on GRUB, but I added that.
Yes, I currently have Ubuntu on this box, and do like KDE better.
Unfortunately this old hardware doesn't seem to be able to handle
the standard automagically generated Kubuntu implementation.
No other OSes or WUBI installed.
I do not have a GPU card, which might help things.
The money for a used GPU card MIGHT be better spend on a newer box.
I tried a search but did not find my answer.
Many thanks!
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