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Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM
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Joshua Branson |
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Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM |
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Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:13:03 -0400 |
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Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com> writes:
> I read a little bit about the current state of video cards, etc - man
> this seems like an uphill battle😅 Basically no manufacture
> sympathizes with the concept of total transparency.
>
> I was just thinking what the practical end-game of this might be - do
> you think at some point there will be an FPGA+power+various I/O ports
> kit that can be totally programmed to provide CPU and video
> acceleration? Something like that might be the only way to end this
> nonsense😅
There is this:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class/updates
They are still working on it, but that website hasn't seen updates in a
while. They have another website that they update more often.
>
> Then the battle will be proprietary vs free software rather than
> hardware. But then again, I don't know what kind of nasty patents
> there might be...
>
> -Yasu
>
>> On Mar 28, 2021, at 03:25, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Bone Baboon wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> The Guix kernel (linux-libre) and the Debian kernel (Linux) have
>> different hardware support and, in general, Linux supports more hardware
>> than linux-libre.
>>
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- Two more computers unable to start X with GDM, Bone Baboon, 2021/03/26
- Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM, Joshua Branson, 2021/03/26
- Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM, Yasuaki Kudo, 2021/03/27
- Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM, Bone Baboon, 2021/03/27
- Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM, Joshua Branson, 2021/03/27
- Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM, Leo Famulari, 2021/03/27
- Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM, Yasuaki Kudo, 2021/03/29
- Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM, Gary Johnson, 2021/03/29
- Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM, Leo Famulari, 2021/03/29
- Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM,
Joshua Branson <=