On 02/14/2011 06:59 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
On 02/14/2011 11:27 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:15 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am wondering if:
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD
>> 2600 Series]
>>
>> is acceptable for the new gnome shell? It seems to work sometimes, and
>> at other times not. For example, it was working in rawhide (I could get
>> a shell, anyway), but now it does not work, nor has it ever worked in
>> F15Alpha TC1.
>>
>> Is there a "better" vga card for the shell in the radeon series? Is
>> there an utility that can be run to check if the VGA card is supported
>> in gnome 3.
> It should work; if it doesn't, that's a bug. File it against
> xorg-x11-drv-ati. I should probably set up a tracker for 'Shell doesn't
> work' bugs. What happens when it fails? Do you get the fallback mode, or
> an uglier failure?
Usually fall back in rawhide. In F15Alpha tc1, mutter falls over.
There is already a bz for the mutter failure. Will test more after
todays branched-report updates.
Thanks for the reply.
I'm experiencing with my i386 radeon hw..
Feb 14 19:05:22 localhost kernel: [ 244.755020] mutter[2761]: segfault
at bf8f7750 ip 04c3f32e sp bf8f2dc0 error 4 in r300_dri.so[4a90000+386000]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility
Radeon X300]
JBG