F17: gnome fallback with intel 855GM

[Dave Mitchell]

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


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