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Debian: Google, VDPAU, USB Tethering Fix

By Roy Schestowitz Created 19/12/2020 - 11:29pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 19th of December 2020 11:29:18 PM Filed under Debian [1]

Sandro Tosi: Gmail and tracker.debian.org: add a label to team emails[2]

Recently the Python Team started the migration from Alioth mailing list to a tracker.debian.org team.

Alioth mailing list, being a real ml, included a List-Id header, which is handled by Gmail natively and which you can use to create a filter based on it.

Tracker.d.o instead uses a custom header, X-Distro-Tracker-Team, and Gmail doesn't allow to create filters on custom headers. But there's a solution: Google Apps Scripts.

Testing VDPAU in Debian « etbe - Russell Coker [3]

VDPAU is the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix [1]. I noticed an error with ?Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory?, Googling that turned up Debian Bug #869815 [2] which suggested installing the packages vdpau-va-driver and libvdpau-va-gl1 and setting the environment variable ?VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl? to enable VPDAU.

The command vdpauinfo from the vdpauinfo shows the VPDAU capabilities, which showed that VPDAU was working with va_gl.

When mplayer was getting the error about a missing i915 driver it took 35.822s of user time and 1.929s of system time to play Self Control by Laura Branigan [3] (a good music video to watch several times while testing IMHO) on my Thinkpad Carbon X1 Gen1 with video and a i7-3667U CPU. When I set ?VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl? mplayer took 50.875s of user time and 4.207s of system time but didn?t have the error. Yves-Alexis Perez: iOS 14 USB tethering fix [4]

A small patch was later commited to the kernel and found its way to Linux and distributions stable releases. On Debian stable you'll need to upgrade to Buster 10.7 to get the fix.

Debian

Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/145662

Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/141 [2] http://sandrotosi.blogspot.com/2020/12/gmail-and-trackerdebianorg-add-label-to.html [3] https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/12/19/testing-vdpau-debian/ [4] https://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1602