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From: Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>
To: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 10:14:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dlsu1jm.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735whl3ke.fsf@dismail.de>


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

> Sorry for being so unhelpful.

Thank you for your help.

>> x86_64
>> GPU: Intel Mobile 946GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express
>
> I feel like the Intel GPUs should work though...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-27 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-27  0:43 Two more computers unable to start X with GDM Bone Baboon
2021-03-27  2:42 ` Joshua Branson
2021-03-27  6:13   ` Yasuaki Kudo
2021-03-27 14:39     ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-27 14:14   ` Bone Baboon [this message]
2021-03-27 15:29     ` Joshua Branson
2021-03-27 18:24     ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-29  8:06       ` Yasuaki Kudo
2021-03-29 14:32         ` Gary Johnson
2021-03-29 16:24           ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-29 15:13         ` Joshua Branson

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