Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Something Wrong With DebiVerse FFmpeg Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:54:02 +0100 Lines: 65 Message-ID: References: <10n59lv$2vl2m$2@dont-email.me> <10n6k7r$3ce18$1@dont-email.me> <2ZIlR.27736$N1Q8.448@fx41.iad> <10n8oli$3uu6$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net DZ3D4WtPoyYr4CRlwH4sxgOdZcdIp7Wi22lp0LOky13CjGlvHv Cancel-Lock: sha1:QzHvOoZ0bJWxptGqR7GXBIOHsl0= sha256:YKrw48Zh3ageW7KqJD1McrWyAYbj1ms6/YdfD45q8iU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82152 On 2026-02-21 05:50, c186282 wrote: > On 2/20/26 14:32, rbowman wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:21:49 -0500, c186282 wrote: >> We used to use xen on a HA server but it switched to kvm. The support >> people didn't miss xen. It did amuse me that the sysadmins that >> refused to >> use Linux didn't know their Windows Server VMs were running on Red Hat. > >   Ya see, this is all COMPLICATED - fine if you're a >   highly-caffeinated teenage geek who is not distracted >   by any girlfriends, but I ain't teen-aged anymore >   by a LONG shot. > >   I screwed around for awhile and apparently DID manage >   to load the KVM kernel stuff - it's mostly under 'qemu-" >   entries. Alas, nothing new in the menus. > >   So, downloaded VirtualBox ... but attempting to get >   an OpenSUSE to install there were evil messages about >   how it couldn't run because some KVM kernel shit had >   already been done. Instructions for disabling/removing >   said KVM shit ... kinda useless. Best advice was to >   rebuild the kernel from scratch - NO THANKS ! > >   Can't get there from here. > >   SO, have OpenSUSE installing right now - netinst over >   my slow-ass connection. Told it to install all the >   KVM stuff, so I'll see what I get. VBox is good but >   KVM is pretty good too so I don't care. > >   SO, instead of Deb13 with an OSUSE VM it'll hopefully >   be OSUSE with a Deb13 VM :-) > >   Oh, Deb13 did NOT solve my ffmpeg problem. A little >   better, but ..... I swear it is somehow linked to >   the time of day ! > >   We'll see if Leap can do it better. > >   DID have to pick KDE ... the XFCE was 'experimental >   Wayland' and I really don't wanna do Wayland. Huh. Plasma is wayland. There is normal X11 with XFCE. > >   Leap now promises 24 months of support. This ain't >   too bad. If I'm still alive in two years, well, >   who knows what I'll install. NOT sure how easy it >   is to update OS "in place" these days, haven't >   used the distro in awhile. I have been upgrading in place my SUSE system for over two decades. > >   Hell, my last OS install was Tumbleweed - on a PI4 ! > -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;