A big part of last weekend I spent working on new builds of Cinelerra packages for Ubuntu Dapper and Breezy. I now finally fully understand its build dependencies and I am close to making automated pbuilds so Andraz can easily trigger automated builds of SVN when enough significant changes are made. Except updated packages for i386 and hopefully for amd64 also by the end of this week. My brother is already using first test versions of Dapper packages on his Dapper Kubuntu and I’ve tested them in my testing virtual machine.
Today is also the day when I migrated my hacked Ubuntu Breezy to Fedora Core 5. Even though I’m used to do strange stuff with Debian based distributions this is the first time I actually had a RedHat based distrubution on this computer.
Currently it only managed to irritate me with:
– broken grub installation. Grub Error 17. I actually had to boot up the rescue cd, chroot and manually reinstall grub to fix it.
– nvidia binary drivers don’t work out of the box by default. Luckily I found a blog post FC5: Ati or Nvidia Drivers that gave me a few commands that I of couse blindly entered as root and rebooted. This thing supposedly upgraded my kernel so it can load non-gpl drivers. I’m not sure how should I feel about this. Backing up xorg.conf file from Ubuntu proved quite handy since now I have my dual-monitor setup working again.
– and an installation that took over an hour and asked for all 5CDs. Somehow I’m used to much faster and easier installations.
Be prepared for a stream of raves and rantes about FC5 in next days. The bets of me staying with it are still on ..
eagerly awaiting the cinelerra deb for dapper.
thanks