I am running the default Gnome player, Totem. I will install icewm when I am on a better connection, with dependencies, goes up to 48 MB. The following NEW packages will be installed: esound-common gconf-service gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-mime-data icewm icewm-common libaudiofile1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libesd0 libgconf-2-4 libglade2-0 libgnome-2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra libjpeg-turbo-progs liborbit-2-0 libturbojpeg0 menu xscreensaver xscreensaver-data 0 upgraded, 30 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Need to get 11.1 MB of archives. After this operation, 48.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
thanks Felix, On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 04:24 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Greg Wooledge composed on 2017-05-24 16:54 (UTC-0400): > > > You'll need to do an "apt-get dist-upgrade" to bring in the 4.9.0-3-amd64 > > kernel package, but I don't expect that will have any effect on your > > current problem. > > Certainly possible. His kernel was compiled 30 March. -3 was compiled 3 > May. I > just installed it, but /requirement/ of "apt-get dist-upgrade" is > technically > incorrect. I just did it this way just minutes ago: > > apt dist-upgrade > > :-) > > Anil's log from about 3+ hours ago shows he's using the modeset(0) Xorg > driver > still. > > He still hasn't reported which video player(s) cause his trouble. > > Installation of IceWM takes less than 8MB of disk space. Using it > > startx /usr/bin/icewm > > to run his player(s) should tell whether the playback performance problem > is in > Gnome or elsewhere. > -- > "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant > words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ >