hey fellow linux users,

I am a rookie , got this  group addy from LFU mag , ok my adventure with linux so farrr

*bought the RHL 9 Bible+3 cd ( by Christopher Negus )

* pc Stats > Via 800 , Asus mb , 124 mb , 20 gb hdd and conextant hsfi modem

* put the cd in rite away and I was on the way to installing , it was easy and fun , did the workstation install

* mounted my fat32 partitions( luckily I didn’t had any ntfs partitions- anywayz can ntfs b mounted and is it safe/stable ?)

now my problems.....

-> what the heck is this licence problem of playing mpeg on RH , where will I find the plug-in to play mp3

->its slowww, do I need to install more ram, when I lowered the resolutions to 640X800 it was much faster , and the onboard sis graphic cards takes away 16 mb from ram -so I am left with 112mb of ram ,  tweaked with the custom video memory settings -reduced it to 8 mb

-> the audio cd works fine , how the hell to change cd,the cd drive wont open :( , I tried unmounting the cdrom and it worked then , is it the rite way or am I doing something rong ?

-> ok the big problem was with my pci modem card , isn’t kudzu suppose to detect it ???

so went searching for the modem and landed up at linuaxant.com , by trial and error got the rite driver for my system ( first I tried the i686 version -it didn’t got installed ) i586 version rpm installed and works fine .but this driver is only limited to 14kbs speed , have to pay for the full fledged version , where can I find the drivers for freeeeeee

Looking fwd to ur comments and suggestion ….