Now I'm full of question :)

[Weasel526]

OK, just got GNOME up and running and got the resolution to be more than 2x2 pixels, here's a few things I would like to know...

1) I just mounted my MSDOS file system to a /dosc directory, i was wondering: is it possible to change or copy things in that directory. I noticed when I tried to do "shoot a screen" into /dosc it didnt work.

2) Is there a better mp3 player besides that MSSX (or whatever it's called) winamp ripoff? whenever I run that program my computer starts running like a turtle.

3) How do i kill a process? e.g. I open a MP3 file and it starts playing magically, seemingly without running any programs, I can't stop the mp3 until i listen to the whole thing and I was wondering how i could kill it.

[ph34r]

1) Probably. Depends on how you mounted it - check to make sure all your long filenames are intact (ls /dosc - ls=dir). If they are ok, you can either move them around as root, or remount it so that users can read/write to it. You won't be able to run your programs (without lots more questions) but you can edit any text files, as well as others that you have Linux programs to open, like mp3's, images, etc.

2) Lots of mp3 players. xmms (the one you don't like) is great, but some like freeamp or even mpg123. Check http://linux.tucows.com .

3) Depends on how you started it. If you are waiting for a prompt to come back, you can press ctrl-C usually and stop it. Or you can open a new term and get the PID (ps -awx) and then kill the PID of the offending process.

[bdg1983]

1. Check the line in /etc/fstab that mounts your MSDOS partition '/dosc' and if you have for example

/dev/hda1 /dosc auto user,ro,defaults 0 0

change the 'ro' (read-only) to 'rw' (read/write).

[Weasel526]

thanks, I noticed i could write to stuff in root but not in any user accounts. I was just about to come back and see what I had to do to that line in etc/fstabs.

[Ig0r]

For #3, chances are that your filemanager (gmc?) has .mp3 files associated with mpg123 (a console-based mp3 decoder) and all you need to do is (assuming gmc):
'Commands' -> 'Edit mime types'

and then re-associate .mp3 with (freeamp|xmms|whatever).

[bdg1983]

Man Pages are something to get in the habit of using.

man fstab