I'm not sure if it belongs here but here I go...

I'm very new to linux and antiX in particular.

I just recently loaded antiX on to a IBM A22m Thinkpad (pentium 3...it came with windows 98).

I'm using this laptop as a download station to download videos and music and surf occasionally.

I would like to know how I can do these:

1 How I can set up the pre-loaded rtorrent to download torrents on to my external hard drive?

2 How I can have antiX recognize the external hard drive when I plug it in to the USB...right now it does not recognize it...I looked in media file for it but can't find it.

3 How can I watch the downloaded videos? The pre-loaded media player isn't able to play avi files.

4 How can I edit the xorg.conf file so that I can change the native resolution from 1400x1050 to other settings. I ask this because I can change the resolution from the 'desktop' but it is blurred and not clear.

Thanks

Ok, here goes an attempt at answering all your questions:

0. Is this the right place?

I have no clue.

1. How I can set up the pre-loaded rtorrent to download torrents on to my external hard drive?

a fairly concise guide to rtorrent is this
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what you want can be achieved by editing .rtorrent.rc more specifically:


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2. How I can have antiX recognize the external hard drive when I plug it in to the USB...right now it does not recognize it...I looked in media file for it but can't find it.

This has been an ongoing issue with Antix I think, check this thread for more info and a solution :
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3.How can I watch the downloaded videos? The pre-loaded media player isn't able to play avi files.

try using mplayer to play them back. if you don't have it, install it through synaptic / apt-get / aptitude.

4. How can I edit the xorg.conf file so that I can change the native resolution from 1400x1050 to other settings. I ask this because I can change the resolution from the 'desktop' but it is blurred and not clear.

for example in my xorg.conf scren section:
all you have to do is add the desired resolution in the Modes line .e.g

Modes"2048x1024""1024x768""800x600"

Note than in the case you got more than one Depth (e.g. 24 and 16 etc) you should edit the respective lines accordingly.

A quick and dirty way of quickly changing resolutions is opening a terminal in X, and typing (for example) xrandr -s 1024x768 and so on, until you find one that suits you. Check this page
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for details.

P.S You're not clear as to what's"blurred and not clear" in your desktop (?)

3. Try using xmms to play the avi - I'm pretty sure it worked for me.

2. Mine seems to work fine. I plug in the external drive before I turn on the computer. Then I navigate to /mnt using rox filer. Next, I right click on the drive's folder (/mnt/sdb0 - I think) and choose mount device. You may have to do the following the gain rw access for normal users:

chmod -R -v 777 /mnt/sdb0

john

Thanks

I'll give it a try...

If you still haven't got the avi's to play, try installing"vlc" (either using"apt-get" in a terminal or via synaptic) and that should work. VLC is a great player that has (so far) worked with everything i've thrown at it. __{{emoticon}}__