On Friday 13 July 2007 12:40:26 pm Lowell wrote:

   I've just installed Mandrakelinux 10.2 3.4.3-3mdk on my IBM

Thinkpad t30,

Why such an old release? There's been a LOT of progress in Mandriva, and manual hardware configuration is largely a thing of the past.

Now Totem Media Player will play some sounds nice and loud but won't make a peep while playing a QuickTime movie (.mov) for example. Wonder why?

Different codec. I have never gotten Totem or Kaffeine to work consistently with more than one or two file types. Mplayer and VLC, on the other hand, usually just work.

Also in Netscape 7.1 (I wanted the suite with the mail client, this is the latest one that has it) Youtube shows the pictures nicely, but no sounds...

Adobe flash player is availble as a pluggin for current releases.

Running Mandriva 2007.1 (Spring), I get mostly satisfactory performance from any media type I encounter. I use konqueror (the KDE file/web browser) by default, and occasionally find a javascript-heavy page that doesn't work, or an animated graphic (weather radar) that bogs it down badly; for those I use mozilla-firefox.

I use the kmail component of korganizer and am pretty happy with it, I much prefer it to mozilla-thunderbird, which is the current version of the mosaic/netscape/mozilla mail client.