From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 11:29:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgyopqde.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dlsu1jm.fsf@disroot.org> (Bone Baboon's message of "Sat, 27 Mar 2021 10:14:05 -0400")
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. :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-27 15:29 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 [this message]
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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