On Du, 13 nov 11, 20:04:51, John S. wrote: > I use Xfce on wheezy and and happy but I was interested enough to > install gnome 3 on a spare drive. Everything went fine except that I > was forced into using the fall back version as the installer couldn't > find a suitable graphics (3D) driver. > > The on-board graphics chip is nVidia. I have never had the need for > fancy graphics ability, gaming etc. but I have some concern if non-free > firmware is a requirement for running Gnome3.
Gnome is a Desktop Environment, it doesn't care if your hardware needs any firmware, it only requires that your hardware is powerful enough. If you fear your hardware is not working 100% because of missing firmware try running dmesg | grep -i firmware and check for errors. Hope this helps, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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