Philippe Landau wrote:

Hi Bruce

Bruce A. Dixon wrote:

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I really need to be able to do video editing in Linux, and I understand that Cinelerra is the app for this. Meaning other linux video editing apps are not as good ?

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I am seeing a problem with Cinelerra, installed from the Packman repositories on top of a clean Opensuse 10.3. Although the install proceeds with no problem, when firing up the application, it does not respond to mouse clicks or keyboard input, and cannot be shut off short of killing the X server.

The problem is also reported on the Cinelerra forums. http://e.kevb.net/lurker/thread/20071206.045239.df310c9f.en.html#20071206.04...

Not everybody who installs Cinelerra on Opensuse 10.3 has this problem. I think I have seen somewhere, but cannot find any more, speculation that this behavior could be unique to machines using NVidia graphics adapters. Did you try updating OpenSuse ? Did you try installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers ? What file systems are you using ?

Kind regards Philippe

Philippe Thank you for taking the time to answer. I cannot say I have exhaustively tested all the Linux video apps. I've installed Pit-something, Kino and another one or two, and read maybe a dozen online reviews. Cinelerra's interface looks a lot like Adobe Premiere, which I know a little about, and I was able to follow the tutorials for it further than I could those for the others. So it looks like the candidate. Opensuse 10.3 is fully updated. In fact, Cinelerra was the very first app I installed after the post-install update. The proprietary Nvidia drivers? Hmmmmm. Not sure where I would find those. Where might they be? File systems? ext3, I think is the file system. bd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org