Re: GNOME 3.8 and the "new" Classic Mode using 3D acceleration

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 21:22 +0100, . wrote:
> So now that GNOME 3.8 has "Classic Mode"[1] I'll see how loud my
> notebook's fan gets, since from the picture it seems that it uses 3D
> acceleration. 3D acceleration was always something which gets my (and my
> friends') notebook fan very loud and decreases battery time. 3D for
> desktop, at least for older notebooks, is unnecessary (I don't know if
> > =Sandy Bridge notebook are louder too when using 3D). 
> [1] https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.8/

Sounds like a hardware/driver issue to me.

I use GNOME Shell on a 6+ year old Toshiba laptop with a lame Intel i9xx
series GPU.  The laptop runs cool and long;  there is not excessive
utilization.

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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA