[r3drock3t88]

Hey all,

I am fairly new to linux, and so far I LOVE it. However, I am having some problems with videos playing. At first, the videos would play but they would flicker and it was very annoying. I wanted to upgrade my video driver so I downloaded and installed it (or so I thought). Now the video doesn't play at all!

Basically what I want to do is uninstall my current video driver (ATI Radeon X1200) and reinstall the most up to date one. Could anyone help me here? I don't know how to fully uninstall it in ubuntu, and I don't know what one to download and install (or how to).

Thank you all so much in advance!!

- Sam

[jazz3000]

Drivers should be under Adminstrator menu on the right. With Ubuntu -especially for beginners: http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php the forums are really important and they are very helpful. Video - unless it's an exact for Linux can be difficult, and takes sometime to deal with. Get involved in the forum that has the expertise. They have a lot of info for you.
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=334 This is specific to the needs you have here. Jazz

[r3drock3t88]

Thanks for the quick response!

I actually managed to get things working. I found out how to uninstall the propriety drivers, and did so ... however, after a reboot the media players (vlc, mplayer etc...) would open then immediately close.

I tinkered around in the preferences of each one and changed the video output modules to X11 instead of the default, and bam! Everything works perfect!

Yaaay Thanks again,

- Sam

[jazz3000]

Hang in there. Sounds like you're headed into a brand new adventure. I enjoy Ubuntu and the Linux side of things as well. Jazz