From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com>
Cc: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>,
Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>,
help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:13:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfa6ngcg.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E82389E-CF2A-4E52-B236-06CB748D38CB@yasuaki.com> (Yasuaki Kudo's message of "Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:06:04 +0900")
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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prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-29 15:13 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
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 [this message]
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