A question about "Software rendering for gnome-shell"

[Adam Jackson]

On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 13:10 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> Running 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 gnome-shell --replace', as proposed by
> drago01, indeed starts an intended mode gnome session, both before and
> after installing these scratch packages, but results are spectacularly
> useless. 'gnome-shells' eats whatever CPU it can get so one can look at
> results but no hope of doing anything useful.

CPU usage is going to be higher.  That's what "software rendering"
means.  I've not found it onerous on an early c2d, but again, I really
need to know what kind of CPU is being complained about.

- ajax
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