On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote:> On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: > >> For some reason you say you disliked Gnome - but does Gnome show issues >> (they use the same video driver)? > > No, neither gnome nor gnome-classic.The black tape has gone away for KDE also. Apparently logging out and in again fixed or obscured the problem.> One of them, I think it was gnome-classic, > did videos badly. > It was a bit like a shutter came about a > quarter way down at about once per second.I'll try the live CD suggested elsewhere.> Late for work.Again. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote:> On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: >> >>> For some reason you say you disliked Gnome - but does Gnome show issues >>> (they use the same video driver)? >> >> No, neither gnome nor gnome-classic. > > The black tape has gone away for KDE also. > Apparently logging out and in again fixed or obscured the problem. > >> One of them, I think it was gnome-classic, >> did videos badly. >> It was a bit like a shutter came about a >> quarter way down at about once per second. > > I'll try the live CD suggested elsewhere.I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7. It would not do videos at all. It claimed it did not have mp4 codecs. It made the same complaint about avi and flv files. How would I go about telling whether C7 decided to do software rendering? -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards
> > I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7.I meant to use a live DVD from some other distro so that it had differently compiled drivers - the idea was to eliminate (or otherwise) the drivers from CentOS 7.> It would not do videos at all. > It claimed it did not have mp4 codecs. > It made the same complaint about avi and flv files.That's mainly because they are non-free codecs so aren't included by default. P.