Re: Is hardware accelerated 3D necessary?



Hi!

Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 18:34 +0800 schrieb foss[ilized]:
> I took a look at the sceencasts. While I understand that gnome-shell
> is a work-in-progress, my initial concern is that the zooming effects
> would not work on a typical multi-user Linux system.

gnome-shell won't work if you don't have accelerated 3D. Most hardware
build in the last 5 years will have enough 3D capabilites to run it when
you have appropriate drivers.

If you don't have 3D you won't be able to run gnome-shell. When you have
a look at the mailing list archive you will find that this has been
discussion. In the end, 3D is state-of-the-art and making a 2D fallback
is not worth the effort. You can still use gnome-panel then.

> Hardware accelerated 3D on Linux appears to be a single-user affair at
> the moment. Only one logged-in user at a time can use 3D acceleration
> (see for example discussions like the one on the DRI-Users mailing
> list: http://marc.info/?t=119413177000001&r=1&w=2).

Well, I think for fast-user-switching this can certainly be fixed
somehow in X11 because there is only one "real" user active.

Regards,
Johannes

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