Ok, I have my fancy new company provided Dell Optiplex GX280 running Debian Woody 3.0 r2. I haven't been able to get X working with the PCI express video card that is in it. I had it working fine under SuSE ;-) using the VESA driver, but have been unsuccesful in getting it configured properly under Debain. But that's not why I'm posting.
Hopefully this is an easy question for Jeff or Colleen. I want DEB packages for the following apps: transcode, mplayer & ffmpeg
What do I need to add to my /etc/apt/sources.list file to get these?
wolfjb
15-09-2004 12:00:52
Ok, first issue, lets get you upgraded to more current software. woody is extremely stable and fairly secure and I run it on my router. You don't seem to be doing that (not on a laptop!) so let's get upgraded. (BTW, more current software will/should help with the video card issue. I don't remember what version of X is distributed with woody (probably 4.1 or earlier) but the newer versions of X 4.3+ probably have better support for that card)
In /etc/apt/sources.list change references to woody or stable to unstable. Trust me, your life will be much better. Next run:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get clean
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get clean
This could take some time to get all your packages upgraded so be patient. Also make sure you have quite a bit of /var space since all the packages get dl to /var/cache/apt/archives. (apt-get clean clears that directory of contents, so make sure apt-get upgrade finishes successfully before actually doing that or you'll do 2x the dl you need to!)
Now for the bad news; you have picked some apps that fail to meet DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines). Of course, you can always dl the source and do the configure; make; make install thing. There is, however, an unofficial list of debs available which has the software you want.
try adding this to your sources.list (preferably at the bottom):
deb
ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
then do :
apt-get update
apt-get install mplayer transcode ffmpeg
apt-get clean
Good luck to you.
Cybodog
08-12-2004 07:02:31
Ok, I have my fancy new company provided Dell Optiplex GX280 running Debian Woody 3.0 r2. I haven't been able to get X working with the PCI express video card that is in it. I had it working fine under SuSE ;-) using the VESA driver, but have been unsuccesful in getting it configured properly under Debain. But that's not why I'm posting.
Hopefully this is an easy question for Jeff or Colleen. I want DEB packages for the following apps: transcode, mplayer & ffmpeg
What do I need to add to my /etc/apt/sources.list file to get these?
what was the outcome?
Reinstalled SuSE 9.1 Pro on this Dell box. However, I have another AMD 2600 box that I now have Sarge running on. It's working well.
wolfie
08-12-2004 07:48:16
way to stick it out Chad :P
Anonymous
07-04-2005 18:00:56
For those interested.... I had to use the "fbdev" driver in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and append "vga=0x31a" to the kernel line of /boot/grub/menu.lst.
So there Wolfie. :lol:
Woops, wasn't logged in, but that was me.