Re: SiS video cards and GNOME 3

[Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com>]

On 16 Oct 2010, at 15:19, Jonh Wendell wrote:

> So, I'm wondering if the Foundation could, somehow, help in this area.
> Two ideas came up (not mutually exclusive):
> 
> 1) Fund someone to writer a proper X org driver for SiS cards
> 2) Talk to SiS to solve the problem

3) Build more elegant fallback modes into gnome-shell so that you don't lose all the functionality altogether, similar to the approach Windows and OS X took when they first introduced features into their desktop that required a minimum level of graphics card support.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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