Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 22 Oct 2023, Stephen Morris wrote: On 14/10/23 03:00, Michael Hennebry wrote: Since my second to most recent post, I tried gnome with X11. Got a useful error message: no H.264 decoder. Now, with X11, videos can play videos. Firefox can play videos with either wayland or X11. I am

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 14/10/23 03:00, Michael Hennebry wrote: Since my second to most recent post, I tried gnome with X11. Got a useful error message: no H.264 decoder. Now, with X11, videos can play videos. Firefox can play videos with either wayland or X11. I am using the Nightly upstream version of Firefox on

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-13 Thread Roger Heflin
No point in installing nvidia if you don't have nvidia graphics hardware. The VGA chip from the lspci you included is from a really old machine, so I would be shocked if anything performed very good. All video and opengl is going to be software with a device that old. On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
Since my second to most recent post, I tried gnome with X11. Got a useful error message: no H.264 decoder. Now, with X11, videos can play videos. Firefox can play videos with either wayland or X11. I did a sudo dnf install 'mesa-*' It went through, but without apparent effect. I also did a sudo

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
Since my previous post, I tried gnome with X11. This time I got a useful message: no H.264 decoder. I installed the decoder. Videos will play videos on both wayland and X11. Firefox only on X11. On Thu, 12 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: mesa is what provides opengl. Best guess is:

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-12 Thread Roger Heflin
mesa is what provides opengl. Best guess is: mesa-dri-drivers, mesa-vdpau-drivers and mesa-va-drivers-freeworld that have video drivers, but also some other mesa pieces that provide opengl may need to be install (or installing the above may install those extra pieces). glxgears and glxinfo will

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-12 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:16:41 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > Can anyone play videos on F38? > If so, how did you do it? > > Firefox in uncommunicative when it will not play a video. > Videos says "cannot initialise OpenGL support". Found this possibility for firefox online. Advice: You

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
Can anyone play videos on F38? If so, how did you do it? Firefox in uncommunicative when it will not play a video. Videos says "cannot initialise OpenGL support". -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun, happily entwined

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/07/2023 12:23 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: When I try to play a .avi file, Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". dnf was not a help. How do I get videos to work? Do you have rpmfusion

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: As noted in another thread, I recently installed F38, retaining my /home partition. Firefox is also unpleasantly interesting. Firefox was and is set to restore on startup. There were a lot of pages to restore. They all came up with a single blank

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/07/2023 12:23 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: When I try to play a .avi file, Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". dnf was not a help. How do I get videos to work? Do you have rpmfusion installed? If not, you'll find instructions for

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-07 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 13:23:02 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > As noted in another thread, I recently installed F38, > retaining my /home partition. > > When I try to play a .avi file, > Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". > dnf was not a help. > How do I get videos to work?

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/07/2023 12:23 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: When I try to play a .avi file, Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". dnf was not a help. How do I get videos to work? Do you have rpmfusion installed? If not, you'll find instructions for installing/configuring both the free

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Mike Wright wrote: On 10/7/23 11:23, Michael Hennebry wrote: Firefox is also unpleasantly interesting. Firefox was and is set to restore on startup. There were a lot of pages to restore. They all came up with a single blank tab. Do I need to start from scratch? Have

Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-07 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/7/23 11:23, Michael Hennebry wrote: As noted in another thread, I recently installed F38, retaining my /home partition. When I try to play a .avi file, Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". dnf was not a help. How do I get videos to work? Firefox is also unpleasantly

After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
As noted in another thread, I recently installed F38, retaining my /home partition. When I try to play a .avi file, Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". dnf was not a help. How do I get videos to work? Firefox is also unpleasantly interesting. Firefox was and is set to restore