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

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 09/11/06, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 06:37:48AM +0900, Josh Glover wrote:
>
> > On 08/11/06, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:
> >
> > >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?

Sorry, I thought that Debian at least played DVDs out of the box. When
told that it didn't, I became confused, forgot the original question,
and said the above. :)

> 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.

Huh? Are you including Gentoo here in the list of distros that didn't work?

-Josh