Bug 708839 - gnome-shell fails and reverts to fallback mode.
Summary: gnome-shell fails and reverts to fallback mode.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 15
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-29 20:14 UTC by Julian Tosh
Modified: 2011-05-29 22:41 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-05-29 22:41:53 UTC
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Description Julian Tosh 2011-05-29 20:14:24 UTC 
Created attachment 501652 [details]
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Description of problem:
gnome-shell will not load and reverts to fallback mode. Logs may indicate an unsupported video chipset.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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

Additional info:
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.
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