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#1 2025-10-13 01:00:24
- js-384
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Dell Dimension E521 driver issues / Alacritty crashing on startup
Hello,
I'm having issues getting Alacritty to run and getting picom to run well with bspwm. I'm currently running on the latest LTS kernel with a 2-core 64 bit CPU + 8GB ram. My BIOS limits me to 128mb vram so that too.
I started with the LTS kernel & mesa; I've only tried different combinations of the latest kernel and mesa-amber so far. I never got Alacritty to start so far and I was only told it might be a graphics driver issue from this issue i made. I can get it to complain about my config if I use mesa-amber though
picom with xrender always ran super slow for me on all my hardware so I wanted to use glx/egl. picom tells me my egl version is outdated but I can't find how I can upgrade it. using glx only runs with mesa-amber but doesn't show anything other than my background.
AFAIK official drivers for my nvidia graphics (Geforce 6150 LE) were discontinued and only work on really old kernels
I'm currently sticking to suckless terminal and no compositor so I'm not hopeless for now
help would be appreciated 
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#2 2025-10-13 13:45:45
- seth
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Re: Dell Dimension E521 driver issues / Alacritty crashing on startup
Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General (the entire file, the link is just meant to tell where to find it) and the output of
glxinfo -BOnline