On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 11:50:03PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > Just installed F17 on an old laptop. Gnome 3 is coming up in fallback; > is there any way to get Gnome shell instead? > > My Googling on on the subject seems to indicate that: > > * the Intel 8xx graphics have buggy 3D, so are blanket disabled > in Gnome 3; > > * but that starting in F17, Gnome Shell should be able to work with 2D (replying to myself) I eventually forced Gnome shell to start by directly hacking gnome-session-check-accelerated; I have no idea whether this is kosher. # cd /usr/libexec # mv gnome-session-check-accelerated gnome-session-check-accelerated.orig # vi gnome-session-check-accelerated create new file with the following two lines: #!/bin/sh exit 0 # chmod 755 gnome-session-check-accelerated -- You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org