On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Tim Flink wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:10:27 -0700 > Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > <snip> > >> It is my understanding that the majority of desktop machines run >> Nvidia or ATI graphics cards. >> It is a fact of life that Gnome 3 in its present incarnation will not >> function on these machines; >> it will fall back to a brain damaged afterthought GUI. > > I'm running F16 with gnome-shell on an old i386 P4 machine and an nvidia > 6200 AGP. It's a little on the sluggish side but otherwise works > fine with the default drivers. Last time I tried it, gnome-shell ran > fine on my newer nvidia card (gt265, I think) with nouveau as well. After a latest mesa update I have also nouveau working OK with my nvidia 7500. Just a full screen video is under gnome-shell choppy at 1920x1200 wich was not the case with proprietary nvidia and is better without G3. With nvidia driver gnome-shell does not work for me at all. Just to make sure offering by default proprietary driver will not always help. > Nouveau works in general but I suppose that depends on which adapter > you're using. I don't expect it to have the same 3D capabilities as the > proprietary nvidia blob drivers but it does work well enough for my > normal use. I can't speak for AMD/ATI cards, though as I don't have any > running linux ATM. Also ATI is working well (HD2400) with radeon driver. Actually better than nouveau was. > Tim Adam Pribyl -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
