On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:46 PM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:26:36AM +0100, valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>>> So I have three options to suggest to my friend: >>>>> - Latest Fedora or Mint but with Vesa driver only, and maybe can't >>>>> even get full resolution then >>>>> - Old Ubuntu (but still supported) + prorietary drivers >>>>> - full blown priprietary - Windows 7 + Intel/PowerVR driver >>>> >>>> There also exist USB-based GPUs, ie. external GPUs that plug into >>>> laptops (or any machine) using USB. >>>> >>>> Although I don't think it's worth rescuing this "cheap 13" laptop" by >>>> spending yet more money on hardware which might have its own driver >>>> issues. >>>> >>>> Probably best to get rid of it on eBay and buy a decent laptop. The >>>> ARM-based Samsung Chromebook is very cheap and runs Fedora. >>> >>> The ARM laptop will have the same or worse issues in terms of GPU as >>> the x86 one. >> >> re: anything with powervr (arm or intel), sadly the best answer is run >> away as fast as possible >> >> re: arm chromebooks, well, there is some hope of eventually getting an >> open source driver, but it will be a long process. Currently >> gnome-shell and related components in fedora need desktop opengl so >> blob driver doesn't help much. > > Well in theory gnome-shell should work fine on GLES ... how does it fail? > (It is untested but it does not have any direct GL code, it uses cogl > which has an GLES2 backend). yeah, I think all we need to do is actually build the gles2 backend. But it has been a while since I checked (and not really a cogl expert, and all that). I just remember that for freedreno I had to use GL and implement some emulation for GL primitives that the hw does not support directly, particularly quads needed to be emultated as tri's + index buffer. BR, -R > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
