video player & modem drivers

[Chris Hewitt]

Dany Gates wrote:

> hi, thanks for ur support till now , u guys are amazing!!! help me one 
> more time. Tell me the name of the  best video player available for 
> red hat linux 9 and in the form of rpm( i dont'  wanna compile the src 
> code and stuff) .
> Next thing is i have got drivers for my pctel modem in form of 
> tarballs and need to install it. now i have learnt to install them but 
> will they go to right place after installation and start working right 
> away or will i have to do some more work on it so that my modem starts 
> working???

I've used xine as a DVD player but I've limited experience of it as I 
don't have a DVD player any more (it lasted the guarantee period 
then....). Other people will give you their favourites and experiences 
I'm sure.

Ah. You understand the difference between rpms and tarballs, good. The 
answer is that it just depends on what the tarball author wrote. You 
don't give us any information on what your modem is (I'm guessing its a 
winmodem), or what driver tarball you have. If googling around has not 
yielded anyone who has reported experiences on installing that tarball 
on RH9 then you could do a new post to the list asking (preferably in 
the subject). Unfortunately, I've no experience of winmodems (I've stuck 
to full modems)  so I'm going to be of limited help to you on this one.

HTH
Chris