On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Adam Williamson <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 13:50 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 12:10 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote: > > > Can I get confirmation that r100 and r200 will not work with gnome > shell? > > > > > > "gnome-shell isn't expected to work on r100 (or r200) you need >= r300 > for > > > radeon cards for it to work." > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679264 > > > > Confirmed. > > > > (It's not really a question of features, but these cards just don't have > > enough power to give a decent experience with GNOME Shell, so > > we don't want to spend the considerable amount of time necessary to > > debug the drivers and get them working with GNOME Shell.) > > In this case, the fallback detection should detect such chips and run > the fallback mode on them; trying to run Shell and giving a poor > experience is not a good idea. > In this case it doesn't. I get the option "LOGOFF" and that's it. (With an unhappy computer icon in the centre) Bottom line I couldn't see the fallback get the attention that a non-3d session would so would be better to upgrade the hardware or switch to something like KDE, XFCE, or LXDE. I just needed that confirmation so I could layout my parents options.
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