I suspect that these trisquel (3.2.0-48) and linux-libre (3.10) kernels don't
like some of my hardware. Particularly my graphics hardware... Its AMD
"Vision" (CPU is AMD Athlon II 2.1GHZ). Some low-end integrated chip that was
probably not produced in significant volume.
For instance:
1. In the details menu under system settings my graphics driver is unknown
and "fallback".
2. I am stuck with GNOME classic. I originally got some kind of message
saying the full GNOME environment could not be loaded.
3. VM performance in virtualbox is quite slow no matter which OS I use or
which VM RAM config I use. I have 4GB of system ram so I normally allocate
about 1.5-2.5GB to the VM.
4. I normally leave the graphics settings of the VM on default, but even
increasing the graphics memory hasn't yielded any noticeable improvements.
5. The available desktop resolutions inside of all of the VMs are not ones
which match the aspect ratio of my monitor so I end up with black bars inside
of all of my VMs (black areas on the left and right to compensate for the
resolution/ratio mismatch)
My intention is to use VMs as my container for all non-free software that I
sometimes need to run. I debated triple booting (Win 7, Trisquel, and Debian)
and using debian for most of my non-free software (Win 7 as last resort) but
it doesn't seem worth it to me when I could just use VMs inside of Trisquel
when needed. VMs are more flexible anyhow since they can relatively easily be
ported over to another PC/device down the road if need be.
Unless there is some reasonably painless solution to my Virtualbox-ose issues
I'd like to give VMware player a try. However, these (aforementioned) kernels
appear to have discluded whatever modules/firmware/etc. are needed for VMware
player so I'm still stuck with virtualbox-ose at the moment.
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