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.
>
