Re: Debian Gnome versus Debian Cinnamon on UTM - M1 Mac

[Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com>]

On 17/8/22 02:49, Wookey wrote:
> On 2022-08-16 09:19 +0200, FritzS GMX wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I installed UTM / QEMU on my M1 (ARM) Mac Mini, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, Monterey 12.5
> >
> > Ob Debian Cinnamon I get the message
> > »Please check graphics driver
> > Your system is currently running without video
> > hardware acceleration.
> > You may experience poor performance and high CPU utilization.
> > high CPU load.«
> >
> > On Debian Gnome I don’t get this message. What's wrong? Which graphic driver missing in Cinnamon?
>
> There is no free driver for the M1 GPU yet (the Asahi project is
> working one) so the message is correct that unaccelerated graphics is
> being used. However in practie this seems to work pretty well.
>
> Glad to hear that Debian is installale on this hardware.
>
> Wookey

I use virtualbox, so may be different

I get that message when running cinnamon guests - until I increase the 
Video Memory (under Settings for the guest; after you add the new 
guest). I use 128M in stead on the default 16M

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All the best

Keith Bainbridge

keithrbaugroups@gmail.com