On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:19:22PM +0530, Madhurjya Roy wrote: > Hey guys, > I understand that Gnome-3 simply doesn't work well without 3D video acceleration. i've not personally experienced that, so I don't know if your symptoms are what actually occurs without 3D accel. Now, I know your AMD processor includes a Radeon video unit, so you SHOULD be getting 3d accel. however, if you didn't install AMD/ATI's proprietary driver for it, you're probably depending on the open source driver instead, and I suppose it simply may not work very well with that particular chip. As I said, I have no direct experience, so I may be all wet here. Good luck! Fred > My old PC MoBo recently died and so, I built a new PC with > the following hardware specification : > > * Processor : AMD A4-6300K 3.7 GHz Dual Core APU with integrated > Radeon HD 8370D GPU > > * MoBo : MSI A58M-E33 > > * RAM : 4 GB Corsair Value RAM 1600 MHz. > > * HDD : 500 GB WD Caviar @ 7200 rpm > > * Monitor : 19 inch Samsung SyncMaster at 1400 X 900 pixels @ 60-75 Hz > refresh rate > > So, I went ahead and popped in the Fedora 21 Workstation Disc. > Anaconda worked well > and installed Fedora 21. > > But as soon as I restarted my PC and logged in I found the desktop > flickering! I moved the mouse pointer and it flickered even more > vigorously and when I pulled through the activities hot corner, I > could barely see the icons, which appeared like distorted squares. > > Somehow, I managed to open the terminal. All the text in the terminal > were clearly visible, I installed Xfce desktop and to my surprise it > worked fine, text and icon everything was clear and perfectly > usable. Next, I installed KDE and it worked as well. I really had trouble > understanding the wobbly widgety interface, though! So, I assumed the > problem is with Gnome 3. > > I reinstalled the complete Gnome desktop and alas, the problem > persisted! I have used Fedora 20 for quite some time on my > laptop, so, I booted a live image of Fedora 20, that I had had flashed > onto a pen drive and still there was the same problem. > > Frustrated, I gave up and installed Ubuntu, Unity worked well but > when I installed Gnome3, I was back where I was, running a completely > graphically distorted UI! > > I've since changed many distros (without Gnome as DE) and all of them > worked fine. Windows 8.1 worked fluidly as well! I am currently using > Ubuntu 14.10 (with Unity as DE). I found it quite close to Gnome3. > > However, I would still like to use Fedora and since, I'm using this as > a multimedia PC, so Gnome3 is still my preference. > > >From my observations, it seems to be a Gnome 3 hardware incompatibility issue. > > I've tried changing refreshing rate, resolution and colour depth and > nothing could solve the issue! Even switching to the proprietary AMD > drivers didn't work out. > > Should I file a bug report on BugZilla? > > If anyone's got some idea, please help! > > Thanks, > Madhurjya Roy > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." --------------------------- Corinthians 5:21 --------------------------------- -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
