Re: Video playback

2014-06-15 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 15/06/14 21:58, Brad Alexander wrote: (or even where to look to diagnose these video problems? mplayer has a range of video output modes. You can list these with 'mplayer -vo help'. I suggest you test a few of the likely-looking modes [eg 'md5sum' output mode probably isn't going to help y

Video playback

2014-06-15 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi, This was originally posted to debian-user, but aside from the thread getting threadjacked to systemd, I did not get an answer. In any case, my wife has a Dell Inspiron 5537, 15" laptop. It has an Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller. Here is my problem. When I try to play a video

Re: Howto Get kde desktop to run ?

2014-06-15 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 15/06/14 02:30, Barry wrote: I installed debian 7.5 on this m/c but it could not install gnome apparently because of some video problem. If your graphics drivers don't work, KDE is not going to help. In stead it installed the desktop light facility apparently successfully.. I used synapt