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Problem with mediaplayer, battery management and mousepad

Asked by Eckart

Hi,
I work with a dell laptop (latitude D 505). Most things are working correct, but there are three problems:

1. I'm not able to use a mediaplayer (real or totem). Realplayer can't be started. Totem brings always the message:
"No URI handler implemented for "rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/worldservice/summary5min.ra?start="1:56"&end="6:58""
This occurs with installation- and live-CD.
Under 5.4 it worked.

2. If the battery is down, the computer switches off without going down.

3. it's very diffucult to adjust die mousepad. I have often unwanted dubbleclicks while moving the mouse-pointer. I have to move the pointer very slowly to avoid these dobbleclicks.

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Eckart (e-st) said : 		#1

Realplayer is now installed and it works.

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Mike Perry (mike.perry) said : 		#2

Hi there,
1. Have you seen the following page?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats?action=show&redirect=mpeg

2. When you say the battery is down do you mean the battery has absolutely no more juice left? There are two very useful packages for laptop batteries.
The first I think is included by default. It is the battery charge monitor and it can be added to the gnome panel by right clicking on a blank spot on the panel and then clicking add to panel. In the search type "battery" and you should find it. That should atleast warn you when you are running low.
The other is an application called "gnome-power-manager". This I believe (but not 100% certain) has some options to run a program (like suspend) when the battery gets to a certain point.

3. Have you looked at System->Preferences->Mouse?

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Eckart (e-st) said : 		#3

Hi Mike
Thank you for help.

1. I did it as explained in the linked page, but if I try to view an mpeg4 video with totem player the answer is:
"There were no decoders found to handle the stream, you might need to install the corresponding plugins"

2. I will try it.

3. Yes, I know that, but I wasn't able to find adjustment, which helps. I have still these anwanted clicks (not doubbelclicks as I sad above).

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Eckart (e-st) said : 		#4

2. The fist package still works. The second one is only bring down the machine after a time you don't use it.

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Mike Perry (mike.perry) said : 		#5

"rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/worldservice/summary5min.ra?start="1:56"&end="6:58""

Is the above link the site you are having the problem with? That looks like a realplayer link to me. After I followed that Wiki page I have not run across any videos that I have not been able to view, but I haved used Real Player in a while and currently don't have it installed. Sometimes, however, I use "mplayer" instead of totem... and actually sometimes I use "xine". If I get a chance after studying I will look into using realplayer on that link.

I believe there are userland packages for ACPI (which manages power) that lets you "do stuff" when certain monitors trip. Unfortunatly the only two I know off the top of my head are the ones I have already mentioned.

This is a shot in the dark, but the bios have any configuration of the mouse pad. I bet someone else have used linux on that dell before. Try taking a quick peek at the Google Linux: http://www.google.com/linux

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etienner (etienner) said : 		#6

For the tuchpad problem:

I guess that your dell has an alps tuchpad, if it is really so, try with this command:

sudo sh -c "echo options psmouse proto=exps > /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.modprobe"

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