Re: Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-22 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Pertti Kosunen pertti.kosu...@pp.nic.fi wrote: On 21.5.2014 2:43, Brad Alexander wrote: I apologize, I thought I had specified, the machine in question is running a relatively recent version of sid. I have not been upgrading as much until some of this chaos

Re: Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-22 Thread Pertti Kosunen
On 22.5.2014 11:15, Tom H wrote: You must've missed the recent thread about systemd-sysv being pulled in by certain dependencies and replacing sysvinit with systemd. What was the name of this thread? Must be some desktop related packages, my few headless systems still have only sysv stuff?

Re: Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 May 2014 at 12:49:43 +0300, Pertti Kosunen wrote: On 22.5.2014 11:15, Tom H wrote: You must've missed the recent thread about systemd-sysv being pulled in by certain dependencies and replacing sysvinit with systemd. What was the name of this thread?

Re: Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-22 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi...OP here... Does anyone have any suggestions on the original problem with video on the Intel drivers on this Dell laptop? Thanks, --b On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 22 May 2014 at 12:49:43 +0300, Pertti Kosunen wrote: On 22.5.2014 11:15, Tom

Re: Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-21 Thread Pertti Kosunen
On 21.5.2014 2:43, Brad Alexander wrote: I apologize, I thought I had specified, the machine in question is running a relatively recent version of sid. I have not been upgrading as much until some of this chaos with systemd settles down. You can upgrade safely, systemd will not replace already

Re: Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-20 Thread Filip
On Mon, 19 May 2014 19:18:38 -0400 Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: I hope I don't run afoul of the self-imposed list monitors or otherwise fan a flame war...:) I have been using nvidia cards in my computers for so long that I haven't really kept up with the state of Intel... My

Re: Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-20 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks Filip, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Filip fi...@fbvnet.be wrote: On Mon, 19 May 2014 19:18:38 -0400 Intel video is normally working out of the box, but for newer hardware you also need up to date software. So if you are on 7.5, try upgrading Jessie. I apologize, I thought I

Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-19 Thread Brad Alexander
I hope I don't run afoul of the self-imposed list monitors or otherwise fan a flame war...:) I have been using nvidia cards in my computers for so long that I haven't really kept up with the state of Intel... My problem is that when I try to play a video on this machine, either with mplayer or