On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 09:01 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Caolán McNamara
<caolanm(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:51 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> 3) gnome-shell will be the designated user experience.
> ...
>> It would also be good to start a discussion on the if/when/how of
>> switching to the shell as the default user experience (on supported
>> hardware).
>
> Are these the drivers we currently have that we expect should be able to
> run gnome-shell reasonably ?
>
> xorg-x11-drv-ati
> xorg-x11-drv-intel
> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
And how is the fall back handled for all the other drivers that don't
support decent speeds for 3D.
As others have noted, the list is broadly accurate, but nouveau is still
somewhat dicey at present; it'll work on many adapters, but not all.
For fallback, this may be interesting reading:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gallium3d_llvmpipe...
(that's likely what'll get used in virt, too, I guess).
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