Re: Gnome 3.x HCL question

Hey, I am an Undergraduate student of Computer  Science and Engineering. I
want to contribute to Gnome and other open source project. My skill sets
are C, C++, Java and I'm learning Python 3.
I would appreciate if anyone out here guide me in this regard.



On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <[email protected]> wrote:

> hi;
>
> On 2 February 2012 18:18, bsquared <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Is there an HCL for Gnome 3.x.  My video card doesn't want to play
> > nice with gnome-shell.  I would like to get an inexpensive compatible
> > replacement, but cannot find a list of cards / chipsets specific to
> > Gnome 3.
>
> creating a HCL for graphics card support is not entirely a trivial
> matter. I can't just tell you "but $BRAND" because in reality there's
> a complex, and largely intertwined set of requirements at play:
>
>  http://wiki.clutter-project.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
>
> in general, what you want is:
>
>  - a GPU that has OpenGL 1.4+ support (or DirectX 9+);
>  - a GPU supported by open source drivers in Mesa
>
> this generally covers a lot of AMD/ATi discrete cards, and most Intel
> integrated graphics architectures. nVidia discrete cards supported
> through the nouveau reverse engineered driver are also an option, but
> it's more hit and miss, and the driver may regress. while for Intel
> GPUs you *really* want the latest and greatest (mostly because older
> chipsets are pretty dire), with AMD/ATi and nVidia you should get
> something that is not bleeding gaming edge, as the authors of the
> drivers don't have infinite resources for tracking the newish GPUs
> *and* fixing bugs in the old ones.
>
> for AMD/ATi and nVidia, the closed source drivers may be an option -
> but it generally has to be the latest version, and it's not guaranteed
> to be working; we tend to expose bugs in the Linux support because the
> Shell is not a primary target for them (i.e. it's not a game, and
> Linux is not a sizeable market to devote many resources to).
>
> you can avoid crap like Matrox, VIA Unichrome, SiS, or other cheap
> integrated stuff. not only the GPU is a joke, the driver support is
> ridoncolous.
>
> hope this helps.
>
> ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
>
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Regards
Lavakesh Pandey
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
ICFAI Institute of  Science and Technology, Hyderabad

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