On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Needed info on two types of software > 1. My laptop HD seems to be failing, atleast that what Karmic is > reporting "DISK HAS TOO MANY BAD SECTORS" - so any idea what software > i could use to find out what is happening and maybe rectify the > problem. fsck is too confusing to use and have not been able to find a > GUI for it.
fsck is not to be run manually. It is run every 30 boots in Ubuntu. fsck is a program to check file system consistency. There is nothing fsck can do about failing hard disks. > 2. A few days back saw a friend using windows movie player - he placed > some images (still pictures) and added music and generated a movie > (video) with the pictures. I was quite taken aback, and wondered is > there any similar software in Ubuntu (Linux). > > would be grateful for suggestions There is dvd-slideshow package in multiverse. Not sure if it serves the purpose. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
