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| From: | Joshua Branson |
| Subject: | Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM |
| Date: | Sat, 27 Mar 2021 11:29:01 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org> writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org> writes: >> >>> i686 >>> GPU: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 >> >> I'm guessing that the problem is the GPUs...but I would not know how to >> help. > > X server worked fine with this NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 GPU when Debian > was installed on this computer. It also looks like Debian uses a > deblobbed kernal based on this Wikipedia article. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob I can also confirm that Debian usually works better out of the box for me on various laptops that I have tried. :) -- Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix) Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels https://propernaming.org "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
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