gnome shell compatible vga cards

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 02/14/2011 06:59 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> On 02/14/2011 11:27 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> 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?
> Usually fall back in rawhide.  In F15Alpha tc1, mutter falls over.
> There is already a bz for the mutter failure.  Will test more after
> todays branched-report updates.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>

I'm experiencing with my i386 radeon hw..

Feb 14 19:05:22 localhost kernel: [  244.755020] mutter[2761]: segfault 
at bf8f7750 ip 04c3f32e sp bf8f2dc0 error 4 in r300_dri.so[4a90000+386000]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility 
Radeon X300]

JBG