Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-30 Thread Slim Joe
Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? I'm curious because I'm planning to format a 1TB disk as ext4. It appears that the e2fs tools already have support for ext4 (with and without -dev). The problem is the latest Debian Linux image (2.6.26.x) has support only for

Re: Video editing: impossible without transcoding? (was: Video editing)

2008-12-27 Thread Slim Joe
Rodolfo writes: I want to divide a video file into two pieces, or, more in general, cut off and select pieces of a video file. Have you tried avidemux(.org)? I'm not sure how good its MPEG1/2 support is, but I regularly use it to edit out the ads from the MPEG4 AVI's I record using MEncoder.

Re: Copy a file one hundred times

2008-12-21 Thread Slim Joe
2008/12/14, Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com: I need the right syntax to copy file.jpg 100 times with one command so to get 100 files named file1.jpg, file2.jpg, ..., file100.jpg. Can anybody suggest how to achieve that? You could try something like: cat file.pdf | tee `seq -w 0 100

KVM and Athlon single-core CPUs

2008-12-20 Thread Slim Joe
Is anybody here running KVM on a single-core Athlon CPU, in particular on a newer 45W LE-series processor like the Athlon LE-1640? My understanding is that all multicore AMD CPUs (X2, X3 or X4) support KVM, but I'm not too sure with single-core CPUs, inasmuch as my current 1800MHz Sempron (which

Re: Desktop becomes unresponsive during large file access

2008-12-03 Thread Slim Joe
On 2008/12/2, Ron wrote: On 12/02/08 04:36, Slim Joe wrote: [snip] When executing commands or programs on large files ( 100 MB), the system becomes unresponsive. [snip] I suspect this is either a scheduling problem or a module conflict. Is there some kernel magic or option I need

Desktop becomes unresponsive during large file access

2008-12-02 Thread Slim Joe
This is a problem that I've learned to live with since I first installed a SATA hard disk. It afflicts two different systems, one running Ubuntu and the other Debian. When executing commands or programs on large files ( 100 MB), the system becomes unresponsive. Among such commands are: (1)

Re: No 3D acceleration for Radeon X1250 (RS690)?

2008-11-30 Thread Slim Joe
On 2008/12/1, Kelly wrote: [snip] I am using Sid's Radeon (not HD) 6.9.0+git20081012.c0e6cb6d-1 with Xorg 7.4 and Mesa 7.2. I have been using Radeon for a while, I think since at least Radeon 6.9.0, Mesa 7.0 and Xorg 7.3. Some relevant bits from my xorg.conf (I temporarily have a

No 3D acceleration for Radeon X1250 (RS690)?

2008-11-29 Thread Slim Joe
I'm using the onboard graphics of my Asus M2A-VM motherboard, which is identified as a Radeon X1200 (RS690). XVideo works with the default open-source drivers, although there's noticeable tearing in the video. However, I cannot get hardware 3D acceleration to work. I get the following console

No 3D acceleration for Radeon X1250 (RS690)?

2008-11-29 Thread Slim Joe
I'm using the onboard graphics of my Asus M2A-VM motherboard, which is identified as a Radeon X1200 (RS690). XVideo works with the default open-source drivers, although there's noticeable tearing in the video. However, I cannot get hardware 3D acceleration to work. I get the following console

Re: You are a broken record (was Re: friend cannot see me on msn)

2008-10-23 Thread Slim Joe
On 2008/10/23, Rich Healey wrote: Settle guys, it's a valid point that using XMPP transports is a PITA. I still use msn, if people want to talk to me in a free open fashion, email / XMPP is available to them. If they want it to be easy (especially from windows, msn is standard, i believe)

Re: virtual box version mismatch

2008-10-23 Thread Slim Joe
2008/10/22, Dennis Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings; I have tried this on two different machines w/different kernels but both lenny and after I do the modprobe vboxdrv as demanded by vbox I get the message following and I have just installed latest vbox stuff. The version of the

Cannot run 64-bit OS in virtualbox-ose

2008-10-18 Thread Slim Joe
Using virtualbox-ose 1.6.6-dfsg-2, I cannot run any x86_64 Linux distribution (e.g. Fedora 9). The guest OS complains that I'm using an plain i586 machine. Is the open-source version of virtualbox available in Debian at all capable of running 64-bit guest operating systems? Note that I'm using

Re: No changelogs for all 50+ package updates

2008-10-16 Thread Slim Joe
On 2008/10/16, Chris Burkhardt wrote: Slim Joe wrote: For the past four or five days I cannot see or download the changelogs for any of the packages which the Gnome Update Manager is supposed to install. [snip] I'm experiencing the same thing (see also the recent post here with subject

Gnome turns everything root

2008-10-16 Thread Slim Joe
I want to make my Debian system more Ubuntu-like, which means doing sudo or sudo-like system administration. However when I enter my user password to run update-manager every program in my Gnome menu that requires root-level privileges is authenticated. That is I can run without typing my password

No changelogs for all 50+ package updates

2008-10-15 Thread Slim Joe
For the past four or five days I cannot see or download the changelogs for any of the packages which the Gnome Update Manager is supposed to install. A check with synaptic confirms the problem. When I choose \Package\Download_Changelog I get an error like: Failed to fetch the changelog for [*]