Gee I know how you feel. The Redhat workstation default insall does NOT install the Devel tools needs to configure and make. There must have been 30-40 packages needed to get the devel tools to work. Plus each one needed something else. I was only trying to install the ATI.2 drivers and XAWTV. Plus the on top of that, the Redhat RPM tool (GUI) form didn't work 90% of the time. I had to install each one from the terminal using RPM -ivh foo.i386.rpm But, it's all FREE. If you don't like it fix it. When you fix it tell everyone how you did it. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Thompson [mailto:thojo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:59 PM To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Video Tools Distro anyone? I agree, I am very proficient with any version of Windows and work in a NT server operations group, but I feel stupid when it comes to installing the video4linux with the DC10+ drivers and mjpegtools, seems like every package has some other dependancy that requires something else to install... I really WANT to learn Linux, honest, but there just seems to be a shortage of info on the DC10+ and I'm sure other video capture card configurations in Linux. Mandrake seems to be the fastest distro on my Athlon 800, and the easiest to setup and use, but.... I'd be willing to try ANY distro that has a fairly simple and in english cookbook on the proper ingredience and setup of a tv/video capture linux box. I came across this website the other day when I was looking for info on "Mandrake AND mjpeg"... Big J's Linux Distro http://www.satlug.org/~bigjusa He is promising a tv/video capture distro optimized and compiled for an athlon system... I am in no way associated with the above website, just thought it looked promising if he can pull it off... Sorry to vent, but I have spent weeks, and countless sleepless night TRYING to get my DC10+ card to work without locking my damn system up.. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "t ." <manaspa@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:10:22 -0800 >On 2001.12.14 15:54 Roger wrote: >> ARRRGGGHHH! & i just got done installing 1.4 on my mandrake 8.1 box! >> took me like 6 hours to build & install it all (semi-properly)!! >> > >This type of thing is getting way too common. What would it take to get >people to stop making YAD (yet another distro) and make something that >includes all the goodies relating to video watching/capture/etc... in >a single vid-iso? > >Probably closer in spirit to > http://freshmeat.net/projects/folk/ > "Functionally Overloaded Linux Kernel" >since there is no clear winner for the various bits. > >or maybe like >http://www.apachetoolbox.com/ >the version with all the goodies already included, the script that >dl's the various bits can be troublesome. > >I certainly do not want to nuke my system just to install YA distro >optimized for something. > >Tracy. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Video4linux-list mailing list >Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > _______________________________________________ Video4linux-list mailing list Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
