Re: Can I get confirmation that r100 and r200 will not work with gnome shell?

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 13:50 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 12:10 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote:
> > Can I get confirmation that r100 and r200 will not work with gnome shell?
> > 
> > "gnome-shell isn't expected to work on r100 (or r200) you need >= r300 for
> > radeon cards for it to work."
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679264
> 
> Confirmed. 
> 
> (It's not really a question of features, but these cards just don't have
> enough power to give a decent experience with GNOME Shell, so
> we don't want to spend the considerable amount of time necessary to
> debug the drivers and get them working with GNOME Shell.)

In this case, the fallback detection should detect such chips and run
the fallback mode on them; trying to run Shell and giving a poor
experience is not a good idea.
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