On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 13:10 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
Running 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 gnome-shell --replace', as
proposed by
drago01, indeed starts an intended mode gnome session, both before and
after installing these scratch packages, but results are spectacularly
useless. 'gnome-shells' eats whatever CPU it can get so one can look at
results but no hope of doing anything useful.
CPU usage is going to be higher. That's what "software rendering"
means. I've not found it onerous on an early c2d, but again, I really
need to know what kind of CPU is being complained about.
- ajax