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

["G. Michael Carter" <mikey carterfamily ca>]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com> wrote:

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.

In this case it doesn't.   I get the option "LOGOFF" and that's it.   (With an unhappy computer icon in the centre)    Bottom line I couldn't see the fallback get the attention that a non-3d session would so would be better to upgrade the hardware or switch to something like KDE, XFCE, or LXDE.

I just needed that confirmation so I could layout my parents options.