Thread: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
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2012-05-15 , 06:03
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Originally Posted by Estel View Post
AFAIK leetnoob was able to enable EasyDebian's totemplayer to play HW accelerated videos, by copying some files from Maemo to ED (possibly replacing some ED's ones). It's buried "somewhere" in this thread, and I'm perfectly sure it was really working, not just a hoax.
Well, I should have said that I was referring to ED running the LXDE desktop. It runs on top of Xephyr, and Xephyr doesn't support HW acceleration. That might be totally different for running programs via debbie, but since I hardly use debbie I didn't consider that.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
I'm perfectly sure, that You can set ext4 to lack journal, thus - this time for sure - benefit from ext4 optimizations, even if You prefer journal-less filesystem.
Yes, you can. But you'll have to do that via tune2fs. So it sort of requires advanced knowledge compared to ext3 which you can simply mount as ext2 to disable journaling.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Of course I understand that You may like to wait for Wheezy becoming stable, but as for compiling on-device, as different problem - why You can't do it because of watchdog? Your device becomes uresponsive and watchdog triggers reboot, or what?
Exactly. I did some pulseaudio compilations on device during my attempt to dist-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze and it took about 12 hours to complete (if it completed).

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
If the latter is true, remember, that by using swap on microSD + correct swap-related settings (to be found in last few pages here, 2 different settings, suggested by freemangordon and by me), You could probably do it on device without bad surprises. At least, it works for me even during heavy compressing (lzma) operations, both memory and CPU requiring.
Thanks! I will look into it. I played with swappolube about a year ago or so. My impression was that it was only making things worse, but I may just have used wrong parameters since I'm pretty much of a kernel noob.
 

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