[Test-Announce] Join Fedora X Test Week - Nouveau, Radeon, Intel (2012-09-25 - 2012-09-27)

[John Reiser]

>>> Gnome3 is not putting any effort into fallback mode.  So my Radeon 9250
>>> purchased new in 2006 as a mid-life upgrade for a box with 1.6GHz Pentium 4
>>> (well above the Fedora minimum CPU) also runs only XFCE.  Gnome3 forces
>>> fallback mode, where some Desktop features are *dropped* instead of emulated.

>> Why do you feel this is relevant?  X bugs are X bugs.

> Right, this is mostly out of scope. The actual bug here is well-known,
> btw - there's a blacklist for adapters that do 3D but are known not to
> be capable of rendering Shell properly. Currently, if your card is on
> that blacklist, you wind up with fallback mode, but what we really want
> to happen is for it to fall back to software rendering, like it does on
> systems where there's no 3D capability at all. That's the bug here. As
> ajax says it's nothing to do with X or the X test days, it's a bug in
> the GNOME fallback logic.

Please give a specific link to a bug report which contains a similarly-
succinct description, in order to make tracking easier.  Thank you.

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