Re: [Trisquel-users] No graphics

2009-12-15 Thread marss_bg
Hi, I don't think it's fair to say that free software could not preform as fast as proprietary software. From my experience, there is no overall performance advantage between free or proprietary software. The reason why glxgears is maxing-out your CPU usage is because glxgears is a perfor

Re: [Trisquel-users] Update Impossible, why ?

2009-12-15 Thread simon
I'm also having trouble with updates when I'm using the live usb version. sudo apt-get update Get: 1 http://archive.trisquel.info dwyn Release.gpg [197B] Get: 2 http://archive.trisquel.info dwyn/main Translation-en_GB [52.6kB] Get: 3 http://archive.trisquel.info dwyn/extras Translation-en_GB [35.

Re: [Trisquel-users] No graphics acceleration?

2009-12-15 Thread thijsrinsma
Hello, it's Gnoob again, I found out some things about what is needed to allow 3D hardware acceleration and Trisquel 3.0 lacks the DRI kernel modules. The directory /lib/modules/2.6.28-xx-generic/kernel/drivers/char has no 'drm' folder with those modules in it. This can be checked in bash