Gnome 3 on non-accelerated graphics card?

[Marco]

On the Sabayon 8 liveCD, GNOME 3 runs as the desktop environment, but the thing is, my graphics card isn't 3d-accelerated. Granted, there are letters missing everywhere, but still functional, though I didn't install yet. Why is this?

I have an IBM ThinkPad R50e.

[camelinahat]

You are most likely running in Gnome 3 Fallback mode. You can determine this by clicking on the Username menu (Click Sabayon in the upper right hand corner). Then click on System Settings. From there open up System Information (at the bottom). In the System Information you can click on "Graphics" on the left. From here you will see "Experience". If you are listed as "fallback" then you are running Gnome 3 in the 'non-accellerated graphics card" mode.

[AlteredPerspektif]

Seconding camelinahat ... look for the forced fallback mode switch and turn it off. Im running Sabayon 8 with Gnome 3 on a Samsung N550 netbook. No problems at all... no missing letters etc and this IGP is far from ideal.

[Marco]

You are most likely running in Gnome 3 Fallback mode. You can determine this by clicking on the Username menu (Click Sabayon in the upper right hand corner). Then click on System Settings. From there open up System Information (at the bottom). In the System Information you can click on "Graphics" on the left. From here you will see "Experience". If you are listed as "fallback" then you are running Gnome 3 in the 'non-accellerated graphics card" mode.

- It's not. It had all the mutter compositing effects and everything. The only thing wrong was the missing letters, which as I recall, were only on the top bar (Taskbar?) Is it possible that Sabayon didn't check my graphics card and therefore thought I could run Gnome 3? If so, what's stopping the GNOME developers from providing GNOME 3 for non-accelerated cards?