F17: gnome fallback with intel 855GM

[Dave Mitchell]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 11:50:03PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> Just installed F17 on an old laptop. Gnome 3 is coming up in fallback;
> is there any way to get Gnome shell instead?
> 
> My Googling on on the subject seems to indicate that:
> 
> * the Intel 8xx graphics have buggy 3D, so are blanket disabled
>   in Gnome 3;
> 
> * but that starting in F17, Gnome Shell should be able to work with 2D

(replying to myself)

I eventually forced Gnome shell to start by directly hacking
gnome-session-check-accelerated; I have no idea whether this is kosher.

    # cd /usr/libexec
    # mv gnome-session-check-accelerated gnome-session-check-accelerated.orig
    # vi gnome-session-check-accelerated
	create new file with the following two lines:
	    #!/bin/sh
	    exit 0
    # chmod 755 gnome-session-check-accelerated


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