On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 12:28 +0100, Stefan Wilkens wrote: > 2012/1/15 Ralf Madorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > [snip] > > It's good that Arch Linux still provide the nv driver, at least Debian > > dropped it, but it's known that nouveau doesn't work for many users, > > that there at least is the need to offend the GPL to use the proprietary > > driver with a kernel-rt, while at the same time an important DE will > > force people to use 3D acceleration. > > > > Regards, > > > > Ralf > > > > Slight deviation from the topic here, but relevant: > > Work is being done[1] to provide gnome-shell's functionality to users > without the requirement of GPU acceleration, this is done through the > LLVMPipe software rasterizer. This does place a SSE2 requirement on > the CPU but that shouldn't be an issue these days. (pentium 4 and up, > amd K8 and up) > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome_shell_software_rendering "Note that software rendering does require sufficient CPU power for a good experience." SSE2 is very resource hungry, so at least for audio usage GNOME is lost. I don't like the work flow when using GNOME3, but I'll install it again and test it, since Xfce without GNOME apps is also a PITA, e.g. the Xfce Terminal Emulator starts with a delay when I click the panel's window button. The terminal is the only app that has this delay.
