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GStreamer 1.26.6 Adds Support for WVC1 and WMV3 Codecs to Video4Linux2

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LMDE 7 Will Be Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”, Linux Mint 22.3 Planned for December

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Jetway B420UADN1 Compact Box PC with Intel N97, DDR5, and Configurable Security

The system is equipped with the Intel Processor N97, a quad-core SoC with a 12 W TDP. It supports up to 32 GB of DDR5 memory via a single SO-DIMM slot running at 4800 MHz. Storage options include one M.2 M-Key slot (PCIe 3.0 x2 or SATA III) for NVMe SSDs and one M.2 E-Key slot for wireless modules, providing flexibility for different application needs.

BeagleBone Green Eco Receives Refresh with Gigabit Ethernet and 16GB eMMC

The board is built around the Texas Instruments AM3358 processor, an ARM Cortex-A8 running at 1 GHz with a NEON SIMD coprocessor and dual-core PRU-ICSS for deterministic, real-time control. It integrates 512 MB of DDR3L RAM and expands onboard storage to 16 GB eMMC, a fourfold increase compared to the earlier BeagleBone Green.

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VirtualBox & vmugfx unsupported hypervisor error

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 12, 2025

Quoting: VirtualBox & vmugfx unsupported hypervisor error —

Recently, I encountered a weird little problem. An inconsistent little problem, too. On a Linux host, I have two Linux virtual machines configured in VirtualBox, both Kubuntu 24.04. One uses LUKS encryption, set up as part of the operating system installation, the other does not. Both use Guest Additions, installed from the official repositories. The former throws an error.

It reads: vmugfx 0000:00:02 .0: [drm] *ERROR* vmugfx seems to be running on an unsupported hypervisor. This configuration is likely broken. Please switch to a supported graphics device to avoid problems. Now, this error only shows during the boot sequence. And it does not seem to affect the functionality of the virtual machine in any way. Screen resizing, screen lock, none of it. But still, let's get rid of it, shall we.

As it happens, while the error message is extremely nerdy, it actually makes sense. VirtualBox tells us to switch to a supported graphics device. And then, I remembered writing about the black screen issues with Linux guests some time ago. Perhaps I need to change the graphics controller used by the affected Kubuntu instance?

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