On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 05:12, Joe Neal <[email protected]> wrote: > I just downloaded the Fedora based Gnome 3 live CD and gave it a try on the > various machines around the house. Gnome Shell was slow with Nouveau on two > relatively modern machines in the house. Gnome Shell failed to work at all on > an old Thinkpad with Savage graphics. I'm sure it will work better on the > Nvidia machines with the propritary drivers or with some time given for > further development on both Gnome Shell and the Nouveau drivers. For the old > Thinkpad, I doubt it ever will. > > Even if free drivers for platforms that support display compositing are up to > snuff by the time of the next release, what about platforms that never > supported it and never will? Display compositing is pretty much limited to > AMD64, x86 and some later PPCs isn't it?
If Debian has a decent fall back mechanism, where if certain graphics cards aren't found on boot-up, it defaults to a gnome-panel+metacity combo, then all's good... no need to switch default desktop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
