On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Pico Geyer <picogeyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> > > I thought nouveau-dri was mainly for opengl type acceleration. > > Is there something I can go read to clear this up? > > GNOME Shell uses OpenGL. > Yep, what was probably happening is since he didn't have the 3d nouveau driver installed, gnome-shell fell back to LLVMpipe rendering which is cpu intensive.
