[Test-Announce] Join Fedora X Test Week - Nouveau, Radeon, Intel (2012-09-25 - 2012-09-27)

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 17:29 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> >>> Gnome3 is not putting any effort into fallback mode.  So my Radeon 9250
> >>> purchased new in 2006 as a mid-life upgrade for a box with 1.6GHz Pentium 4
> >>> (well above the Fedora minimum CPU) also runs only XFCE.  Gnome3 forces
> >>> fallback mode, where some Desktop features are *dropped* instead of emulated.
> 
> >> Why do you feel this is relevant?  X bugs are X bugs.
> 
> > Right, this is mostly out of scope. The actual bug here is well-known,
> > btw - there's a blacklist for adapters that do 3D but are known not to
> > be capable of rendering Shell properly. Currently, if your card is on
> > that blacklist, you wind up with fallback mode, but what we really want
> > to happen is for it to fall back to software rendering, like it does on
> > systems where there's no 3D capability at all. That's the bug here. As
> > ajax says it's nothing to do with X or the X test days, it's a bug in
> > the GNOME fallback logic.
> 
> Please give a specific link to a bug report which contains a similarly-
> succinct description, in order to make tracking easier.  Thank you.

I don't have one offhand - I know the GNOME team knows about it (one of
them explained it to me in the first place), and it's not any kind of
release-blocking issue, so I've never really needed to find The Bug, if
there is one. I expect mclasen or drago01 would know where it is,
though.
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