On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:45:53AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > So how is Gnome3 for you? > > > > It always starts up in fallback mode for me. I do have radeon KMS > > runnning, but mesa is using the software DRI renderer. That might be > > why it starts in fallback mode. > > Ahh, that's because I am not a member of the video group. Fixed. Now I > get the gallium DRI driver. glxgears works nicely and less than 15% cpu > usage for 60fps when I use the xfce4 desktop. > > But Gnome is not so happy: all I get is a black screen with the cursor > when I log in. After a while it switches to screensave mode, brings up > the password entry prompt when I move the mouse, and I can unlock and > come back to the big black empty nothiningness. This new Gnome > experience is somewhat underwhelming.
I'll screw-up my courage and give it a try soon. Had some furnace repairs to accomplish this weekend: installed a new controller board today. Have you tried KDE4 yet? I still haven't tried it with compositing enabled, but it works well for me otherwise. Can't remember the source package name I was waiting on (to be rebuilt by the new compiler with the working optimizer), but I *think* it was qt4-x11 or some such. --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
