Ok, I just installed opensuse 11.4 64 bit. Compiz and everything was working fine on my ati card (mobility 2600) with the default radeon drivers. I added the gnome 3 stable repo, updated fine. But when I rebooted I get booted into the fallback with no 3d effects and it says “gnome 3 failed to load”
What gives? The drivers were working fine with full acceleration. I know gnome 3 works on this card, I tested it on the fedora live cd just fine.
> Ok, I just installed opensuse 11.4 64 bit. Compiz and everything was
> working fine on my ati card (mobility 2600) with the default radeon
> drivers. I added the gnome 3 stable repo, updated fine. But when I
> rebooted I get booted into the fallback with no 3d effects and it says
> “gnome 3 failed to load”
>
> What gives? The drivers were working fine with full acceleration. I know
> gnome 3 works on this card, I tested it on the fedora live cd just fine.
This seems to happen if gnome-shell isn’t installed. But it seems that
if it is installed, it just respawns too quickly and fails to start.
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:36:03 +0000, stamostolias wrote:
> Maybe it would better to wait two months and then upgrade.
Well, for some people that’s definitely a valid suggestion. I have a
test box, though, so I will probably continue to fiddle with it and see
if I can figure out how to even tell what’s wrong.
That’s the thing that’s really kinda annoying me about GNOME3 right now -
if there’s a problem, the error messages are no help whatsoever, and
there’s no real indication as to where to look for logs to tell you
what’s wrong.