Olav Vitters <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 02:32:24PM +0200, ovitters wrote: >> Name : gnome-session Relocations: (not relocatable) >> Version : 3.6.0 Vendor: Mageia.Org >> Release : 2.mga3 Build Date: Mon Oct 8 14:26:33 >> 2012 > >> ovitters <ovitters> 3.6.0-2.mga3: >> + Revision: 303504 >> - add patch to unblacklist llvmpipe > > I've unblacklisted llvmpipe like Fedora has done for a few releases. In > some cases I noticed my normal driver not working (reason unknown), so > in case GNOME is sometimes slow, check if it isn't rendering using > llvmpipe. > > This should make it easier to run GNOME in a VM or any case where > hardware acceleration is missing.
And this will make Gnome3 awfully slow on aging systems running high resolution displays. Even on a Core2 Duo (whose graphics chipset does not support a recent enough OpenGL version), a 1920x1080 display is extremly slow with llvmpipe. -- Olivier Blin - blino
