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Re: Gnome 3 and non-free firmware



On Du, 13 nov 11, 20:04:51, John S. wrote:
> I use Xfce on wheezy and and happy but I was interested enough to
> install gnome 3 on a spare drive. Everything went fine except that I
> was forced into using the fall back version as the installer couldn't
> find a suitable graphics (3D) driver.
> 
> The on-board  graphics chip is nVidia. I have never had the need for
> fancy graphics ability, gaming etc. but I have some concern if non-free
> firmware is a requirement for running Gnome3.

Gnome is a Desktop Environment, it doesn't care if your hardware needs 
any firmware, it only requires that your hardware is powerful enough.

If you fear your hardware is not working 100% because of missing 
firmware try running

dmesg | grep -i firmware

and check for errors.

Hope this helps,
Andrei
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