Why do I sometimes get a gdm similar to gnome 2's?

[poma]

On 02/28/13 18:49, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 18:06 +0100, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 16:13 +0000, Marco Scannadinari wrote:
>>> Sometimes, usually when updates are installed, after booting, I get a
>>> gdm screen similar to this -
>>> http://lippolweblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/gdm.png. It uses the
>>> same animations as the new black gdm, but it just has the plain white
>>> layout as of the old gdm 2.x.
>>> Has anyone experienced this? What is the cause?
>>
>> The "older" UI is shown when detection that your graphics card has the
>> necessary OpenGL support fails.  That includes a timeout.
> 
> Can it not, please?  Seriously, what a terrible idea.
> 

Perhaps the most profound feature of the gdm, discreet way of telling
you to switch over. ;)

poma