On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Massimo Gengarelli <gengarel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:02 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> The reason this is a fallacy is that you haven't established that the >> level of OpenGL support is the *only* difference between the >> configurations in question, and it certainly isn't. There are all sorts >> of others. As Ajax says, it's likely not to do with the exact level of >> OpenGL support available, it's more likely just a bug in the problematic >> hardware / driver combo. > > > I strongly hope you're right, but I really think that the bugs I listed > in my previous mails (especially those related to Mutter) depend on some > OpenGL's features that are missing. > > I'm assuming that because I've experienced the same bugs using Ubuntu's > new shell (Unity). Unity has some checks for the OpenGL version > hardcoded, hacking through the code and removing them made the shell > start up with the same identical bugs (white lights where drop shadows > should have been, ...). > > Digging into the code I discovered that the way Unity draws drop shadows > around the panels is by using some GL functions that require the > extension GLX_texture_non_power_of_two to be active. > > Mutter suffers the same bugs. > > > More than that, my video card (ATi Radeon 9200 PRO) will never be able > to use the missing extensions, just because the hardware is way too old. > I'm not complaining against GNOME developers or Radeon's drivers > developers, both are doing an excellent work and it's quite normal that > hardware becomes obsolete after more than 6 years. > > > > > Again, I'd really love to be wrong because I'm really missing GNOME > shell here ;-) pot_textures aren't are hard requirement so yes you are wrong. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
