Bug 708839

Summary: gnome-shell fails and reverts to fallback mode.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Julian Tosh <redhat.com>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: airlied, ajax, bskeggs
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Description Julian Tosh 2011-05-29 20:14:24 UTC
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Description of problem:
gnome-shell will not load and reverts to fallback mode. Logs may indicate an unsupported video chipset.

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How reproducible:
Every login


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login
2. gnome-shell fails to load and uses fallback mode.

  
Actual results:
gnome-shell fails to load and uses fallback mode.

Expected results:
gnome-shell experience

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Comment 1 Ben Skeggs 2011-05-29 22:41:53 UTC
This is the expected behaviour on Fermi chipsets in Fedora 15.  The acceleration support in nouveau that's shipped with F15 requires the use of a few binary firmware blobs taken from traces of the NVIDIA binary driver.

This issue has just been fixed upstream for a number of chipsets, but requires quite a bit more testing before I'd be comfortable adding it to F15.