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Re: Why is Gnome3 still disabled after having upgraded the linux-image?



 Hi.

On Sun, 25 May 2014 17:52:05 -0700 (PDT)
Horatio Leragon <hleragon@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On my wife's computer which has an Ivy-Bridge CPU and Intel H77 chipset, Gnome3 is fully enabled (Debian 7.5, linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64)
> 
> However on my daughter's computer which has a Haswell CPU and Intel H87 chipset, Gnome3 is not enabled at all, this despite the fact that the linux-image has been upgraded to linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 (the linux-image had to be upgraded as there are issues with reboot and power shutdown using the default linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64)
> 
> What happened?
> 
> Is there a Wheezy-backport of newer versions of Gnome desktop?

Upgrading the kernel is a a step in the right direction, but it's not
enough per se. You probably need more recent (comparing to wheezy):

libdrm-intel1
xserver-xorg-video-intel

And, as far as I'm aware there're no backports of those two packages.

Reco


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