Hi folks, It turns out that this is because the image is shipped with the newly designed nouveau driver, which already supports 3D acceleration. And since this open source driver is compatible with my third-party screen, I am able to use gnome-shell.
Gnome 3 is cool. Great job! Cheers, Song Gao -------------------------------------------------- School of Computer Science China University of Geosciences(Wuhan) http://songgao.weebly.com/ On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 20:06, Song Gao <[email protected]> wrote: > HI, > > I've just tried the GNOME 3 live disk (OpenSUSE) today and found that it > fixes a problem which has bothered me for a long time! > > I got my laptop screen broken last year, and later replaced it with a new > one. The new screen was a third-party one and was not produced by the laptop > producer. It was incompatible with either my configuration or the NVIDIA > Linux driver, since I got very ugly and completely not readable display at > the login screen in Linux after installing the video driver from NVIDIA, but > they worked very happily together in Windows. > > I was convinced that my new, un-official, third-party screen(monitor) is > not compatible with the video driver released by NVIDIA, until today I tried > the GNOME 3 live disk finding that the acceleration works perfectly. > > I guess it's either because the GNOME 3 live CD is with new open source > NVIDIA drivers, or because I was not using the proper configuration before > and GNOME 3 live CD is just using the right configuration. > > > Could anyone tell me what happens in GNOME 3, or in this live CD, that > makes me so happy with hardware acceleration working and seeing the > beautiful UI on my poor laptop? > > > > Here's some basic information: > > Video Card: Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M > Live CD downloaded from: > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/GNOME_3.x86_64-0.0.6-Build1.1.iso > Tried with: USB stick > Laptop Model: ThinkPad T61 > > > > It's the first time I post in this mailing list. If I have been in improper > manner at some point, please excuse me and let me know :-) > > THANKS in advance! > > Warm regards, > Song Gao > -------------------------------------------------- > School of Computer Science > China University of Geosciences(Wuhan) > http://songgao.weebly.com/ > >
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