>> Gnome3 is not putting any effort into fallback mode. So my
Radeon 9250
>> purchased new in 2006 as a mid-life upgrade for a box with 1.6GHz Pentium 4
>> (well above the Fedora minimum CPU) also runs only XFCE. Gnome3 forces
>> fallback mode, where some Desktop features are *dropped* instead of emulated.
> Why do you feel this is relevant? X bugs are X bugs.
Right, this is mostly out of scope. The actual bug here is
well-known,
btw - there's a blacklist for adapters that do 3D but are known not to
be capable of rendering Shell properly. Currently, if your card is on
that blacklist, you wind up with fallback mode, but what we really want
to happen is for it to fall back to software rendering, like it does on
systems where there's no 3D capability at all. That's the bug here. As
ajax says it's nothing to do with X or the X test days, it's a bug in
the GNOME fallback logic.
Please give a specific link to a bug report which contains a similarly-
succinct description, in order to make tracking easier. Thank you.
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