No Gnome 3 for me

[John Wendel]

On 08/04/2011 10:07 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 04:39:53PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 22:32 -0700, John Wendel wrote:
>>> Anybody have a solution for the bug (?) that keeps Gnome 3 from working
>>> with Nvidia 7300 video cards? Specifically, the keyboard and mouse
>>> clicks don't work (but ctrl-alt-backspace does).
>>> It's been a while, I thought this would surely get fixed. I'm running
>>> F15 with the latest updates and the latest Nvidia driver.
>
>> I too am interested in this. I have a Dell Dimension E520 with Nvidia
>> GeForce 7300 LE. I have put off upgrading to F15 on this machine (I have
>> F15 running on a headless server which has no need of Gnomery) because I
>> read these threads:
>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-June/400091.html
>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-June/398532.html
>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-July/401484.html
> I have not tried installing the (latest) Nvidia driver again.
> I suspect it will still give problems with at least the NV46 family
> of Nvidia chips (including the GeForce 7300 (LE)) as Nvidia has
> as far as I know not adressed this problem.
>
> However I can confirm that the Nouveau driver is now functioning
> adequately with the Geforce 7300 LE. I have been using it for the
> past 2 weeks:
> (xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-24.20110324git8378443.fc15.x86_64
>   mesa-xxx-7.11-0.16.20110709.0.fc15.x86_64 and
>   kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64)
>
> So if are willing to give up the Nvidia drivers you can comfortably
> run F15+Gnome3 with Nouveau.
>
> Alexander
>
>
Thanks for the reply. When I run the Nouveau driver, I get the Gnome 
"fallback" version. And I see a console message that says that there is 
no 3D hardware acceleration. I've got the same software versions.

Regards,

John