Re: Why is Gnome3 still disabled after having upgraded the linux-image?
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?
>
>
Probably among other things:
Gnome3 shell requires hardware acceleration of video. Check that
the video hardware has this, and also that it is enabled. Some drivers
do not enable it by default.
--
Joe
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