Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Stephen Powell: > On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:24:00 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: > > ... > > the VGA chipset is about 8 years (or so) old so > > don't expect astonishing results :-) > > I said the computer was new TO ME. I never said it was NEW. > This is a server machine literally thrown away by a business. > But it is now the most capable machine that I own.
Ah, so a server board indeed. > > And you need 3D acceleration because...? > > I don't NEED it, I just WANT it. I want it > mainly because I want to run GNOME 3. GNOME 3 initializes > in fallback mode if the graphics chip does not support 3D > acceleration, it seems. Well maybe using LLVMPIPE software renderer will be faster and easier on this machine. But then I don´t know which versions of which debian package know to have it working out of the box. I´d bet that it will work on Wheezy, but then I never tried it. No need to. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209091410.03854.mar...@lichtvoll.de
