We should have this compatibility list started on the Gnome 3 site.  With a
spot to put their hardware/experience.

That way people can see at a glance what works and what doesn't.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Adam Williamson <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 14:31 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Hi Sergey,
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Sergey Udaltsov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Would it make sense to consolidate all HW+GL-related information
> > > (requirements) on a single page on live.gnome.org? Minimal list of
> > > extensions, hints ("do not use this driver, do not use those chips,
> > > etc")
> >
> > I think we really do need a high level description of the current
> > state somewhere, yes.
> >
> > My understanding is roughly at least for Intel "any card ≥ i915/945",
> > though i915 is about the very minimum.  We do need to get recent data
> > about ATI and NVIDIA; can anyone help fill in?
>
> From the relevant Fedora developers, who are also upstream X developers,
> my current understanding so far as the free drivers goes is:
>
> Intel - i9xx and higher. i8xx is known to sort-of-work but have major
> issues, these issues will not be fixed and the intent is that i8xx
> adapters should be detected and fallback mode should be used.
>
> Radeon - r300 and higher, that's Radeon 9500 and higher. r200 and r100
> are the same story as i8xx: they should be blacklisted by the
> session-is-accelerated check.
>
> NVIDIA - GeForce and higher (I may be a bit out here; it may be GeForce
> 2 and higher).
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