On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 23:45 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 08/04/2012 07:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 17:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > >> That's going to make testing Wheezy CD images annoying. Anyone else see > >> this problem? I tried logging in under GNOME and GNOME Classic - the > >> warning didn't show again but the UI didn't show any visible change, it > >> appears that only fallback/classic is available. Can someone using GNOME3 > >> in Wheezy verify that this is expected behaviour? > > > > This is expected in the absence of 3D acceleration, which is not yet > > supported in qemu so far as I know. VirtualBox is supposed to support it, > > but a standard installation presumably won't pull in the necessary > > paravirtual drivers in the guest. > > So we require 3d acceleration for a default install?
I think what you'll see without it is a one-time warning. I could be wrong since I haven't done a fresh installation yet. > I think that is even more insane than what recent windows versions require. 3D acceleration recommended, but with a fallback mode available? Isn't that exactly the same? > Can we please have a sane > default desktop for people with older hardware? Maybe just chosen in d-i, > depending on the hardware. I believe joeysel now selects Xfce as the default desktop. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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