Intel GM45

[Alexandre Kaspar <alexandre kaspar epfl ch>]

Hi everybody,

I'm new to gnome-shell which I find great (simple, pure, no useless
gadgets for now).
I can use it on my computer which has 2 graphic cards : 1 nvidia 9300,
and 1 intel GMA4500. (hybrid switch)

Actually, it's working pretty good on the nvidia one.
However, it's not the case with the intel one :
- glxinfo displays that I have the capabilities to run it (or at
least, I have a working graphic driver)
- gnome-shell --replace & (or gnome effect desktop panel > use
gnome-shell) both fail and revert to the default gnome session

I like gnome, but really prefer gnome-shell since it's even simpler
and avoid some drawbacks of all thoses menus which we find everywhere
(I mean the drop-down menus). Those are fine, but not when you use
them everywhere and when you have too much things in it.
Anyway, it's never a good idea to put to many things in a menu.

Well... in fact, I'm sad since I cannot use gnome-shell on the intel
card (for long battery time) but I would like to.

Here is the bug I submitted on redhat bugzilla :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556029

and there the fedora discussion about it (french) :
http://forums.fedora-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=398514#p398514

I'm not sure wether I should open a new bug on the specific  
gnome-bugzilla since I don't know wether it's gnome-related or not  
(probably a more graphic_card-related thing...).

Anyway, if someone has a clue, just tell me. I would really appreciate.

Thanks for the good job on gnome-shell
Alexandre Kaspar


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