Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

[Anil Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm>]

Thanks a lot for your replies. Yes I believe I dont have graphics
acceleration. My interface is sluggish. I believe I am playing video
with Totem, it has these mini freezes and then after some while starts
to freeze badly making it unwatchabel.
the output from inxi -c0 -G
Graphics:  Card: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor
x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: N/A
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 405 (Braswell)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.6

and from lspci -nnk | grep -A4 'VGA'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation
Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics
Controller [8086:22b1] (rev 35)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor
	x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller [1043:1290]
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915
00:0b.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation
Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series Power
Management Controller [8086:22dc] (rev 35)

and from dpkg -l | grep mware
ii  firmware-realtek                      20161130-2                    
      all          Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
ii  libfwupd1:amd64                       0.7.4-2                       
      amd64        Firmware update daemon library
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vmware             1:13.2.1-1+b1                 
      amd64        X.Org X server -- VMware display driver

Thanks a lot, 


On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 07:18 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 06:06:44PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Looking up 8086:22b1 finds the keyword Braswell, which provides the all
> > important date of introduction of it. It was introduced more than 8 months after
> > Jessie, thus not supported by pure Jessie.
> > 
> > Gnome *should* be working fine since he installed Stretch.
> 
> We had a user with a Braswell system (Intel Pentium N3710) in IRC
> yesterday, and he was not even able to *boot* into stretch normally
> (hard-locked with a black screen and no logs written to disk, even in
> rescue mode, unless he suppled the "nomodeset" kernel option).  He could
> boot jessie, but the graphics ran without acceleration.
> 
> There's definitely some room for improvement in Debian's support of
> Intel Braswell systems.  But we'll need a whole lot more information.
>