On 20 August 2012 19:20, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 August 2012 00:30, Jason Warner <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Colin - >> >> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 17 August 2012 01:51, Jason Warner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > ... >>> > But there is a cost to this decision. Unity 2D fit a very specific use >>> > case >>> > in very low-end and non-GPU accelerated hardware. By consolidating to >>> > Unity >>> > using LLVMpipe for this specific use case we expect to see some >>> > regressions >>> > in systems supported. This means that a certain class of hardware will >>> > no >>> > longer be supported to run Unity. Unity will run on all GPUs that >>> > support >>> > OpenGL 2.0. The earliest GPUs that meet this requirement are at least 5 >>> > years old[1]. Even so, we know some subset of cards and hardware that >>> > could >>> > previously run Unity 2D will no longer be able to run Unity. >>> >>> A heads up to make sure that the case of dual monitors with i945 >>> graphics chipset (and possibly others) has been considered. That >>> chipset will only run 3d if the virtual desktop is less than 2048 >>> pixels wide so when an external monitor is plugged in only unity-2d >>> will run at the moment. If the external monitor is not plugged in >>> then 3d is ok. Having removed unity-2d the software will have to cope >>> with plugging in the external monitor in some way. Note that this is >>> an issue for laptops made only a few years ago (Toshiba Satellite for >>> example). >> >> >> Is there an bug for this? if not, please file one so we can track it. >> Thanks. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1039051
That bug has been marked as a duplicate of #824099, Max GL texture size can break multi-head [1], which is marked Won't Fix. Can anyone explain why this capability will not be provided by llvmpipe on Quantal? [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/824099 Colin -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
