On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 16:41:00 +0100,
poma <pomidorabelisima(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21.01.2014 16:28, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> There have also been some CPU relevant changes in software graphics
> support used as a fallback in gnome. Not all 686 machines support
> the exact same instruction set and I saw some issues on an AMD CPU
> (an Athlon MP). However, with CPUs that old, the software graphics
> fallback for gnome is not very usable and you'll want to use another
> desktop.
Bruno, are you serious? :)
Yes.
gnome-[s]hell on i686 bare metal!?
Gnome shell is not usable (for my defintion of usable, others may be
more tolerant) using the llvm softpipe software driver fallback on
a pair of Athlon MP CPUs.