Gnome-Shell adoption issues

[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan ubuntu com>]

Hey all, 

Ive been thinking a bit about what could cause problems when adopting
Gnome-Shell in the distros. The main problem I see is the hardware
requirements (I know this has been mentioned before but I mean this in a
different way). The hardware that Shell needs requires acceleration and
some open source drivers nouveau for instance dont work with Shell. I
tested nouveau and Shell started up but the writing on the screen was in
blocks and not legible. I know this is a problem with nouveau more than
Shell and can be fixed by using the nvidia drivers but on the CD we only
ship open source drivers. Is there any way to get Shell working when
this kind of situation happens? 

Regards
Shane Fagan

PS: its really starting to come together keep up the good work