RE: Graphics Problems with gnome-shell-3.10.3

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> > > > > > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:31 AM, John Frankish <j- frankish slb com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > [  1838.558] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
> > [  1838.572] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) HD
> > Graphics 3000
> > xf86-video-intel-2.21.15
> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd
> > Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
> > [8086:0126] (rev 09) Kernel driver in use: i915
> >
> > $ cat /var/log/Xorg* | grep SNA
> > [   196.737] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Sandybridge (gen6, gt2) backend
>
> Do not use SNA on such an old driver. There have been a lot of work going
> into SNA in the 3.0 driver branch (which is still not released); SNA is disabled
> by default for a reason.

OK, but this appears to be the most recent stable driver dated 21-Aug-2013 - the more recent drivers are all 
2.99.x series unstable drivers...

Anyway - problem solved :)