Andy Sy wrote:
But the (essentially) forced use of rpm made
moving to a newer version of X - which had to be
compiled 'coz the rpm was not yet available - a
living nightmare. I probably spent at least the
same amount of time figuring out how to get the
dependencies working (never got them to) rather
than actually figuring out how to compile X.
i've experienced the same thing with debian.
the video player that i've developed based on the xine engine
keeps on crashing eventhough we've tested it before
on a different machine. the culprit: X. the X (4.2.1) we've used was
compiled from source but it was having problems with some
debian packages. so we revert it back to X 4.1.0 using a debian
package which unfortunately contains a bug on our dual output
video card. that's when we're forced to create our own
X 4.2.1 debian package.
Mandrake is for my desktop/multimedia machine
I've had good success using Slackware for
multimedia.
i'm trying to replicate my multimedia machine on debian.
(mandrake has a good job handling my video capture card)
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