[Mageia-dev] GNOME llvmpipe rendering in gnome-session-3.6.0-2.mga3

Wed Oct 10 00:19:15 CEST 2012

Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> writes:
+
+> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 02:32:24PM +0200, ovitters wrote:
+>> Name        : gnome-session                Relocations: (not relocatable)
+>> Version     : 3.6.0                             Vendor: Mageia.Org
+>> Release     : 2.mga3                        Build Date: Mon Oct  8 14:26:33 2012
+>
+>> ovitters <ovitters> 3.6.0-2.mga3:
+>> + Revision: 303504
+>> - add patch to unblacklist llvmpipe
+>
+> I've unblacklisted llvmpipe like Fedora has done for a few releases. In
+> some cases I noticed my normal driver not working (reason unknown), so
+> in case GNOME is sometimes slow, check if it isn't rendering using
+> llvmpipe.
+>
+> This should make it easier to run GNOME in a VM or any case where
+> hardware acceleration is missing.
+
+And this will make Gnome3 awfully slow on aging systems running high
+resolution displays.
+
+Even on a Core2 Duo (whose graphics chipset does not support a recent
+enough OpenGL version), a 1920x1080 display is extremly slow with
+llvmpipe.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+