vlc has always "just worked" for me before (including on maya *before* i did an apt-get upgrade!) so perhaps i am ignorant of display hardware issues. below are what's shown by maya->systeminfo->display, and lsmod, do those tell you anything? maya->systeminfo->display -Display- Resolution : 1024x768 pixels Vendor : The X.Org Foundation Version : 1.11.3 -Monitors- Monitor 0 : 1024x768 pixels -Extensions- BIG-REQUESTS Composite DAMAGE DOUBLE-BUFFER DPMS DRI2 GLX Generic Event Extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER MIT-SHM RANDR RECORD RENDER SECURITY SGI-GLX SHAPE SYNC X-Resource XC-MISC XFIXES XFree86-DGA XFree86-VidModeExtension XINERAMA XInputExtension XKEYBOARD XTEST XVideo -OpenGL- Vendor : Tungsten Graphics, Inc Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915G x86/MMX/SSE2 Version : 1.4 Mesa 8.0.4 Direct Rendering : Yes $ lsmod|sort 3c59x 37445 0 binfmt_misc 17292 1 bluetooth 158438 10 rfcomm,bnep bnep 17830 2 btrfs 638208 0 dm_crypt 22528 0 dm_log 18193 3 dm_raid45,dm_mirror,dm_region_hash dm_mirror 21822 0 dm_multipath 22710 0 dm_raid45 76451 0 dm_region_hash 16065 1 dm_mirror e100 36289 0 fat 55605 1 vfat floppy 60310 0 hid 77367 2 hid_a4tech,usbhid hid_a4tech 12590 0 i2c_piix4 13093 0 isofs 39553 1 jfs 175085 0 libcrc32c 12543 1 btrfs lp 17455 0 mac_hid 13077 0 Module Size Used by nls_utf8 12493 1 overlayfs 27511 1 parport 40930 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp parport_pc 32114 1 ppdev 12849 0 psmouse 87140 0 reiserfs 230896 0 rfcomm 38139 4 serio_raw 13027 0 shpchp 32325 0 snd 62064 15 snd_es18xx,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd_es18xx 34433 3 snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_opl3_lib snd_mpu401_uart 13865 1 snd_es18xx snd_opl3_lib 18863 1 snd_es18xx snd_page_alloc 14115 1 snd_pcm snd_pcm 80845 1 snd_es18xx snd_rawmidi 25424 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 14172 4 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd_seq_midi 13132 0 snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi snd_timer 28931 3 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq soundcore 14635 1 snd squashfs 36095 1 tulip 52487 0 usbhid 41906 0 vfat 17308 0 xfs 747494 0 xor 25987 1 dm_raid45 zlib_deflate 26622 1 btrfs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20121103/bc083895/attachment.html>