Re: [tlug] FC5 Sucks: firewire drive/videos

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 06:37:48AM +0900, Josh Glover wrote:
> On 08/11/06, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, but not outside of the package system. i.e. if you did not watch
> the output of the emerge command, you could pretend that the packages
> are binary.

On a VERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY slow system.  Sheesh, pkg_add took 3 hours?  
(Ok, I've admitted a billion times that I tend to exaggerate.)
> 
> 
> >and debian doesn't include anything proprietary?
> 
> Maybe it doesn't out of the box, but it should be as simple as a few
> apt-gets involving mplayer and friends, I would think.

Isn't that also the case with Ubuntu, which you listed as poor in
multimedia?  
> 
> >I see distrowatch lists poor multimedia support as a con for Fedora, so
> >maybe whatever I switch to will be better.
> 
> It would be hard to switch to a distro worse than Fedora.


Actually, I have to give a bit of credit to Fedora 6.  So far, it's the
only distro running xorg-7.1 that works with my old Matrox Millenium
G200 video card.  None of the others do, even with the latest
xf86-video-mga update.  

In fairness to the other distros, I haven't googled past the point of
seeng there was an update that supposedly fixed it, and that this was in
Edgy, then seeing that Edgy still didn't work with it.  FC6 had no
trouble with it, it was completely transparent.


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