I recently did an apt-get update on my system, originally installed using Mepis linux (www.mepis.org), to Debian Sid. This was a fairly full update, but seemed to go without a hitch.
Unfortunately, Mepis seemed to have some more aggressive settings than straight Debian (which, having been a Debian user for years, I know is renown for being conservative in its default settings, valuing stability over speed). I use Kino, the non-linear digital video editing program on this machine, and it has worked extremely well on Mepis. However, after the update the playback of video files within Kino is about 1/2 speed; they played back at proper speed before the upgrade. I am taking a wild guess that there is some setting somewhere for some program that affects the access speed for the hard drive that has more conservative settings in Debian than in Mepis, which is causing this problem. For each update that requested a prompt to overwrite configuration files, and for which I had not made any changes myself, I selected "Y" to install the new version of the configuration file. I expect it was one of these that made the change that caused the slow-down. The problem is not with Kino itself (which is compiled from source, and was not upgraded). I checked whether the upgrade had somehow turned off DMA (it didn't), which is about the only speed-up-access-to-stuff-on-the-hardrive option I know about. Any other thoughts own what programs I should be looking at that could affect the speed Kino reads from the hard drive? Any other ideas what could cause this kind of behaviour when doing an upgrade to Debian Sid from Mepis? (please cc. me on answers - thanks) Thanks, Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
