In a previous post I said how impressed I was with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex except for one thing- I couldn’t seem to play DVD movies.  Well- I just fixed that.

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Well, I have Ubuntu running pretty well on my Dell XPS m1210 but I do have one thing happening that I haven’t been able to resolve yet. I can’t seem to play DVD movies. It’s not the player because I can read the disk and copy files from the disks, but when attempting to play the DVD I get a “seek failed” error.

Other than this error it’s running exceptionally well! Windows XP is running under Sun’s VirtualBox and works great. Ubuntu runs great and very effieiently on the m1210 at x64. Even with only 2gb of ram I can run everything I want including Windows XP.

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Well, I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 8.1 on my Dell XPS laptop.  I must say that it was the easiest install to date!  Everything worked, even the media player button and volume control buttons and the scrolling sections of the touchpad.

Well, everything worked until I put a DVD in the player.  It brought up the movie player, but wouldn’t play the movie.  Its most likely a codec thing and I didn’t try another DVD.  All in all, very impressed.  I would use this over Windows Vista… more…

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