Confused
Confused
Posted Nov 4, 2011 16:11 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333)In reply to: Confused by kragilkragil2
Parent article: Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types
There is no technical need for fallback mode anymore because they have eliminated the dependency for hardware acceleration.
The Linux/Mesa software OpenGL stack has improved to the point were it can provide the necessary APIs at (hopefully) decent performance on composited desktops.
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