From: Gary Johnson <lambdatronic@disroot.org>
To: Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:32:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2e6av3i.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E82389E-CF2A-4E52-B236-06CB748D38CB@yasuaki.com>
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've always had good luck using linux-libre with Intel integrated
graphics controllers.
> 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😅
I like to buy my laptops from ThinkPenguin. All of the computers they
sell work out of the box with linux-libre. I'm, of course, running Guix
System on one of their laptops right now.
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/
Happy hacking,
Gary
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-29 14:33 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 [this message]
2021-03-29 16:24 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-29 15:13 ` Joshua Branson
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