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I am getting a few bad sector messages in my /var/log/messages. I have read where an "fsck -c -c /dev/hda" may be what I need. Before I go doing such things I am looking for confirmation that that is what I should do. Anyone please comment on how to tell linux to not use sectors in my disk. This is stright IDE no raid not nothing at this point /dev/hda is all. Thanks, jerry

...o accel? I'd rely on intel to provide acceleration > as this also reduces power consumption of the entire system. Also I > think vaapi on the secondary GPU is pretty much untested. Well you've got a point there. It's just that the dang nvidia is pretty much sitting there on its hiney doing nothing (the mediaserver is running headless), while the CPU block is doing all the heavy lifting (I'm running torznab grabbers, DLNA streaming etc off an old laptop whose screen's busted). I tried nvenc/nvdec, but the 650M doesn't seem to support it according to my reading of th...

Hi, If I am reading the featurematrix <https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/> right, VAAPI is supported for nouveau on the GeForce650M (my card). Here is the output of inxi -F System: Host: MediaServer Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 1 Distro: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS Machine: Device: laptop System: SAMSUNG product: 300E4C/300E5C/300E7C v: 0.1 serial: