Gnome shell corruption

Adam Pribyl pribyl at lowlevel.cz
Sat Apr 9 18:25:28 UTC 2011


On Sat, 9 Apr 2011, mwesten at verizon.net wrote:

>
> This hardware appears to be a write-off for Gnome3 now (see the
> comment by Owen Taylor at the BZ below), but I'll still point out
> something interesting I saw on my other ATI.
>
> I happen to have an RV200, which I tried with F15BetaRC1, and while
> it was generally unusable for many reasons, the fonts were not corrupted
> as they are with RV250/280.  So, I think that may support the idea of
> there just being a bug in the R200 implementation.

Yes, this was at time when gnome-shell run with nomodeset (e.g. without 
KMS). It was slow, but it was displayed properly.

Adam Pribyl


More information about the test mailing list