On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 23:01 +1300, Aidan Gauland wrote: >> On 21/03/12 15:10, John Carter wrote: >> > So having gone around and around and around the Ubuntu Oneiric / Precise >> > / ... install, and grub grubbing and (quite promising boot-repair) root.... >> > >> > I have got nowhere due that UEFI curse word. >> > >> > Arch Linux installed as slick as a greased suppository. >> > >> > So I'm going with that for now. >> >> I tried Arch. Drive me absolutely batty. It made me appreciate just >> how much Debian does to make packages work nicely with the rest of the >> system. Arch leaves almost EVERYTHING to you. Some users want that, >> but I don't want *that* much control. >> >> Let me know how it works out for you. >> >> (I use Debian testing, in case anyone was wondering which release of >> Debian I use.) >> >> --Aidan > > I'm now using LMDE which is based on debian testing. A choice I've > bitterly regretted since I started. Initially I was using squeeze, but > it was just too much hassle to get the nvidia card working properly ( it > didn't even recognise it as a nvidia card ). > > Why on earth is is based on testing, not stable? I'd like my sound to > work, to be able to run ffmpeg... basic trivia like that.
I don't think you need sound working to run ffmpeg. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
