Gnome-Shell

[David Quigley]

On 12/15/2011 05:43, Alan Cox wrote:
>> gnome-shell itself doesn't care, it just uses x.org. If x.org runs, 
>> and
>> gives 3D capability, that's all that gnome-shell cares about.
>
> Actually it does seem to care in a few cases. On FC15 it would
> unilaterally decide to do fallback on > 2048 pixel wide Intel i9xx
> displays. I assume this was because the X driver had some 3D bugs in
> that case.
>
> So it's a bit smarter rule and policy wise than you give it credit 
> for.
>
> It should certainly be "working" in FC15 even for most Intel configs, 
> and
> in FC16 it works on a Radeon HD2450 although it's got a few small 
> bugs
> now and then.
>
> Alan

So if the expected result is for me to have a working gnome shell I 
wonder if it might be something screwy with my install. I preupgraded 
both of the boxes from F14 to F16 directly. Is there any way of finding 
out why it would believe these cards can't support 3d acceleration?

Dave