motorollin wrote: > Exactly. To test the theory, I tried exactly the same procedure on a MacBook Air with a different model Intel GMA graphics card and had exactly the same problem. I'm trying to borrow a Mac Mini with a Radeon to test with that, in case the Intel cards in the MacBooks are too similar and hence have exactly the same problem. > > Intel has very poor drivers and they do not give anywhere near acceptable game quality video. Their Linux drivers are poor, at best. I think that Parallels is masking this problem. The video card in my MacBookPro is an ATI Radeon X1600, which is a very good card for MacOSX but not so for Linux. James McKenzie