A question about "Software rendering for gnome-shell"

[mwesten]

On 02/21/2012 05:14 AM, drago01 wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Michal Jaegermann<michal at harddata.com>  wrote:
>> At https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome_shell_software_rendering
>> I am reading "The standard Gnome 3 experience is now available on all
>> hardware".  Is this a plan, a wish or this is supposedly describing the
>> current situation?  I am asking because on my rawhide installation
>> (Radeon RV280 graphics card) I am surely not observing anything of that
>> sort. Gnome shell goes alway into an "fallback" mode while "Forced
>> Fallback Mode" is definitely off.  Just checked to be sure.
>
> Good catch that is kind of a corner case were a 3D driver is present
> but "not good enough".
> You should be able to start gnome-shell using
>
> LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 gnome-shell --replace
>
> But not sure what we should do here and how having a native driver
> will work with having software using vgem.
>
> Ajax?

FYI - I can get the shell with this on RV200 in F17ARC2 (Live), but the 
processor gets pegged at 100% continuously and it's not usable.

-Mike