[mythtv-users] Ubuntu VDPAU Repo crashing on screen configure

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

2009/4/9 Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com>:
>
> OK, I'll give that a try.


let me know how it goes and give me the backtrace


> Sadly, you might be right about that. I had hoped that I would help
> round off the rough edges on the 9.04 release, but it appears that
> most of my efforts might be falling on deaf ears.

well, you are installing the beta of a product not released yet.. it
was doomed to bring you troublea !

> Would Mythdora be any better? I'm not tied to Ubuntu, but I had just
> figured that it would work well.

I said the support of Fedora was better, not that the distribution was better.

I've been running RedHat/Fedora/CentOS for many years prior to
switching to ubuntu late last year.

The packaging system is *much* better IMO on debian/ubuntu than with
redhat derivative.
Reading on how difficult it is for people to install all the
dependencies when they want to compile mythtv themselves.
on debian/ubuntu, one line is enough to resolve all of those:
apt-get build-dep mythtv

that's it...
Compiling packages is also much more elegant.

The main thing I didn't like with Fedora is how often it updates and
that they don't support a previous distribution for every long. I just
couldn't keep up !
CentOS was great for that ; very stable and supported for a long time
, but the kernel is old and so are the drivers.

One thing I like very much with Ubuntu is that when you upgrade a
kernel, the various drivers you installed get automatically recompiled
and installed.
on RedHAt you would have to install the appropriate kmdl for each new
kernel. There are tools in yum supposed to do that automatically but
they never worked properly for me.

I would stick with Mythbuntu for the time being if I were you..
Mythbuntu 8.10 is very stable for me ; and with the help of the
various updated drivers, it supports even the latest hardware