On 2013-07-02 18:44, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Jul 2, 2013, at 6:28 PM, John Reiser <jreiser(a)bitwagon.com>
wrote:
> On 07/02/2013 Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
>> GNOME runs fine without hardware 3D support, but the llvmpipe code
>> that
>> makes that possible segfaults on ARM.
>
> Gnome3 Desktop is unusable on i686 with RV280 video card driven by
> llvmpipe.
> XFCE and MATE *do* run just fine using the classic ati driver.
Well, even without llvmpipe, nouveau and a G84M [GeForce 8600M GT]
choke on Gnome 3 shipping with F19 but not F18. Gnome-shell and Xorg
hog 1/2 to more than a full core between them. I consider that
unusable for anything beyond light web browsing or the computer turns
into a combo hot plate / hair dryer.
Well, that's clearly a bug in the driver layer somewhere.
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