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aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=dismail.de header.s=20190914 header.b="qSy/zAp3"; dmarc=pass (policy=reject) header.from=dismail.de; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of help-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=help-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -3.12 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=dismail.de header.s=20190914 header.b="qSy/zAp3"; dmarc=pass (policy=reject) header.from=dismail.de; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of help-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=help-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 4CFBB1EC83 X-Spam-Score: -3.12 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: W4zQxr3ZVdoQ Bone Baboon writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> Bone Baboon 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. :) -- Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix) Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels https://propernaming.org "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar