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. > > 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. > > I will add this one: > > http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting I can't seem to connect to the site right now. I get a "503 Service Unavailable". I'll try again later. > > I wonder why people is so reluctant about installing packages from the > outside when this involves upstream projects which are well-known and > trustworthy :-? It's not a trust issue. I just prefer to stick to Debian packages because they are likely to be better integrated with the Debian maintenance procedures. For example, when using Nvidia drivers I much prefer to stick to Debian packages rather than download stuff directly from Nvidia because applying system maintenance is much less likely to break the driver if I use Debian packages. > > There exists this package but not sure if it's for the same purpose :-? > > http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xserver-xorg-video-mach64 No, that is a binary user-space X driver, which is what the X server is using now. The package I was referring to apparently contained the source code for the mach64 kernel module, among other things. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/824493517.940834.1347135557967.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com