On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:10:27 -0700
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf(a)omen.com> wrote:
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It is my understanding that the majority of desktop machines run
Nvidia or ATI graphics cards.
It is a fact of life that Gnome 3 in its present incarnation will not
function on these machines;
it will fall back to a brain damaged afterthought GUI.
I'm running F16 with gnome-shell on an old i386 P4 machine and an nvidia
6200 AGP. It's a little on the sluggish side but otherwise works
fine with the default drivers. Last time I tried it, gnome-shell ran
fine on my newer nvidia card (gt265, I think) with nouveau as well.
Nouveau works in general but I suppose that depends on which adapter
you're using. I don't expect it to have the same 3D capabilities as the
proprietary nvidia blob drivers but it does work well enough for my
normal use. I can't speak for AMD/ATI cards, though as I don't have any
running linux ATM.
Tim