radeon 4000
$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
$
nvidia 8400 gs
$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
$
both on debian 8 libre main.
Is there a website where this information about graphics cards performance
with free code only resides? Somewhere on H-Node perhaps?
The Nvidia GPU should work great. STAY AWAY FROM ATI, think of their GPUs as
something you should absolutely avoid.
This command should tell if there is 3d acceleration:
glxinfo | grep direct
Amd or ati are non free trash, all. If you want the best performance, buy
some Nvidia kepler card, such as gt730 gddr5, gtx770 4gb, gtx760, be sure for
get one with gddr5. Intel graphics (before skylake) are great but come with
surprise, those integrated GPUs comes with Intel CPUs which have
Thank you. The debian 8 usb memory stick is for testing. I enabled non free
repositories. I do not remember if non free software was installed.
I installed debian 8 again on the usb stick. Libre main debian 8.
If the radeon graphic card is on I can get a desktop. In settings -> display
it
contrib and non-free are, you guess it, repositories that contain non-free
software. I think you know that as to have them enabled you had to manually
edit the sources, but it is good to point out that once you install a non
free package from these repos your freedom has gone out of the
If you haven't noticed, these forums are for support with Trisquel. If you
have questions or concerns with Debian please use their support channels.
Thank you.
Also if the display is connected to the build in graphic card graphics does
not work.
