Olivier Heinry wrote:
Yep, I didnt provide anything since I noticed these logs are as easy to find.
good to know.
aye, your approach does make sense if you were not aware of the automatic mails on fail. (sorry if i was too harsh)
personally i would rather not revert to etch (who works with multimedia and can live with a debian/stable anyhow :-)?)
Well it's hard to live with a debian/unstable in aproduction environment, I tell you! I reverted to etch since I hoped to have the best of both worlds: stable AND multimedia! (which obviously isnt the case!)
right, sometimes it is really hard to decide which one to use.
still i think that running plain "etch" will not get you far, if you want to try things out (in multimedia). if you have a small set of applications (e.g. ardour, a certain Pd-patch) you have to run really stable then you might be fine with etch.
but for trying things out (e.g. seeing whether i bug has been fixed in the current Gem CVS version), i would not recommend stable as the platform of choice.
things are not so bad, if you are not on stable/vanilla but can add the debian-multimedia repositories; but these are obviously missing from the autobuild machines (for legal reasons).
of course "unstable" is usually just that: unstable. but luckily there are things inbetween: testing (lenny) but i have to admit that usually i run lenny+sid mixtures, as some packages (the ones i need), tend to hang in sid forever.
finally: kernel-2.6.24 really makes a difference in latency, i can recommend it; however, getting your nvidia-card to run decently with etch or lenny and this kernel is nearly impossible :-(
fmgasdr IOhannes