Re: [gnome-love] Gnome 3.x HCL question

[Stefan Skoglund <Stefan Skoglund agj net>]

ons 2012-02-15 klockan 06:05 +0000 skrev Emmanuele Bassi:
> creating a HCL for graphics card support is not entirely a trivial
> matter. I can't just tell you "but $BRAND" because in reality there's
> a complex, and largely intertwined set of requirements at play:
>
>   http://wiki.clutter-project.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

The support depends on a lot of things:
linux kernel version including vendor patches
X version and patches
OpenGL libraries
graphics card maker and prom.

> for AMD/ATi and nVidia, the closed source drivers may be an option -
> but it generally has to be the latest version, and it's not guaranteed
> to be working; we tend to expose bugs in the Linux support because the
> Shell is not a primary target for them (i.e. it's not a game, and
> Linux is not a sizeable market to devote many resources to).

I'm running a current version of debian wheezy and gnome-shell on an HP
machined with Intel 945G type graphics. And i do get occasionally screen
distortions, which is well known.