gnome shell compatible vga cards

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:15 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am wondering if:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD 
> 2600 Series]
> 
> is acceptable for the new gnome shell?  It seems to work sometimes, and 
> at other times not.  For example, it was working in rawhide (I could get 
> a shell, anyway), but now it does not work, nor has it ever worked in 
> F15Alpha TC1.
> 
> Is there a "better" vga card for the shell in the radeon series?  Is 
> there an utility that can be run to check if the VGA card is supported 
> in gnome 3.

It should work; if it doesn't, that's a bug. File it against
xorg-x11-drv-ati. I should probably set up a tracker for 'Shell doesn't
work' bugs. What happens when it fails? Do you get the fallback mode, or
an uglier failure?
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