On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm having a performance issue with gnome shell and I wonder if anyone >> can provide me with some advice. > ... >> I'm on a T510 Lenovo laptop with an updated Arch and I'm using the >> nouveau driver. > > Can you paste the output of (it should be 2 lines): > glxinfo | grep render > > It should say > direct rendering: Yes > OpenGL renderer string: [something about nouveau] Hi damjan, Here we go: direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301) GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend, Pico