RE: Graphics Problems with gnome-shell-3.10.3

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:31 PM, John Frankish <j-frankish slb com> wrote:
> > I've compiled gnome-3.10.x from source to run on a machine with an intel core-i7 2640m 2.8GHz cpu with 
> > 8GB RAM and intel hd3000 graphics on 64bit tinycorelinux using a 3.8.13 kernel.
> >
> > Using gnome-session/gnome-shell, most things seem to work, but the graphics display is very poor.
> >
> > The display background continually turns bright white and dragging any window produces a trail of 
> > multiple windows behind it. The only way to fix this seems to use the mac/special/windows key to move to 
> > the "task-switcher" screen and back again.
> >
> > Setting CLUTTER_PAINT="disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling" does not seem to help appreciably.
> >
> > Are the above problems caused by the graphics not being powerful enough or is it a software problem?
>
> No that has nothing to do with "being powerful enough" it sounds like a
> driver issue (mesa or kernel).

Thanks for the reply - I'd be grateful for any trouble-shooting suggestions

John