Hi, folks. As some of you might already know, the average computer in Brazil is shipped with SiS video card. Which doesn't have a proper X driver. So, most people in Brazil will not be able to run gnome-shell. They will simply not feel the GNOME 3 experience. (this includes myself, btw).
The answer "buy a better hardware" just doesn't work here. We're talking about a development country (3rd world...). The fallback for gnome-shell is just to stick with gnome panel/metacity, which means GNOME 2 experience. I really feel bad about this. In every conversation I have, people keep asking/complaining about this issue. So, I'm wondering if the Foundation could, somehow, help in this area. Two ideas came up (not mutually exclusive): 1) Fund someone to writer a proper X org driver for SiS cards 2) Talk to SiS to solve the problem Ideas, suggestions? Cheers, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
