F16 and gnome 3.2

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 5 14:30:03 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 09:41 +0000, Rich Boyce wrote:
> On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series.  When I did a
> > first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome
> > fallback mode.  Is this something I am going to need to live with or is
> > their a way to retry gnome 3.2.  Sure would appreciate your help.
> 
> It's likely to be down to your graphics hardware - Gnome 3.2 requires 
> more hardware acceleration than traditional desktop environments. What 
> graphics hardware does the machine have? You can see this by running
> 
> lspci -v | grep VGA
> 
> Rich

In my case thew result is:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if oo (VGA Controller)

How exactly is this controller lacking and how do you identify a video
controller that will work with Gnome w3.2?
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