hi; On 2 February 2012 18:18, bsquared <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there an HCL for Gnome 3.x. My video card doesn't want to play > nice with gnome-shell. I would like to get an inexpensive compatible > replacement, but cannot find a list of cards / chipsets specific to > Gnome 3. creating a HCL for graphics card support is not entirely a trivial matter. I can't just tell you "but $BRAND" because in reality there's a complex, and largely intertwined set of requirements at play: http://wiki.clutter-project.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions in general, what you want is: - a GPU that has OpenGL 1.4+ support (or DirectX 9+); - a GPU supported by open source drivers in Mesa this generally covers a lot of AMD/ATi discrete cards, and most Intel integrated graphics architectures. nVidia discrete cards supported through the nouveau reverse engineered driver are also an option, but it's more hit and miss, and the driver may regress. while for Intel GPUs you *really* want the latest and greatest (mostly because older chipsets are pretty dire), with AMD/ATi and nVidia you should get something that is not bleeding gaming edge, as the authors of the drivers don't have infinite resources for tracking the newish GPUs *and* fixing bugs in the old ones. for AMD/ATi and nVidia, the closed source drivers may be an option - but it generally has to be the latest version, and it's not guaranteed to be working; we tend to expose bugs in the Linux support because the Shell is not a primary target for them (i.e. it's not a game, and Linux is not a sizeable market to devote many resources to). you can avoid crap like Matrox, VIA Unichrome, SiS, or other cheap integrated stuff. not only the GPU is a joke, the driver support is ridoncolous. hope this helps. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
