On Sep 7, 2014, at 4:46 PM, Bat Phil <batphil64(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I did consider that possibility Eddie and it may well limit my
ultimate choice of desktop. I am hoping that the main limiting factor is the lack of
system memory rather than video memory. However, I will have to wait for a couple of days
to find out.
Well you've got 10GB of swap, so while the system may get dog slow, desktop
still shouldn't crash. Gnome has a work around to deal with blacklisted or less
capable video hardware. It's slower and takes up more memory, but again it still
shouldn't crash. So I'm suggesting that's a bug that may already be fixed by
upgrading. Or it might take some searching in bugzilla to find it and possibly a work
around. Or worse case it's unique to your hardware in which case it'd be good to
file a bug.
Chris Murphy