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