I have been dealing with this issue in the context of Ubuntu Lucid, however since it can be reproduced under F13 Beta I thought it would be wise to raise it here. In some cases, gnome-games do not properly fall back to software rendering and fail to start. This bug happens reliably with KVM and VirtualBox but has been reported on real HW. The bugs are:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615630 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/561734 -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
