On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 09:42 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R on 08/04/2009 04:25 AM wrote: > > ECS motherboard with Intel graphics - > > system>preferences>desktop effects: > > clicking on "enable desktop effects" blows > > out the session and dumps the user back to > > the login screen. 3d games don't work. > Let me explain this for you since no one else on this list wants to > spend the time. I already did, last night, off-list by private email, which was the appropriate venue. > Fedora develops against open source software. The drivers from AMD and > nVidia are *binary* and *closed* source software. Fedora/Red Hat > developers cannot assist you in any way if those drivers do not work > with the software distributed with Fedora. > > You have two options. > > 1) Use an open source driver (ati or nouveau) The latter is not going to help with 3D support, as it doesn't have any (practically speaking) yet. It's ironic that you cut out the bits of the original mail which actually mentioned ATI and NVIDIA, and quoted the bit which talks about Intel, which is an open source driver. Someone's suggested something for that bug already. personally, I'd like to see 'lspci -nn' output so we know what adapter we're dealing with. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
