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Daniman.teshome

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Registered: 2013-10-13

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Gnome 3 accelerates Very slow

I Recently installed Gnome3 in my packard Bell with 1GB of RAM and Intel Atom as a processor and it accelerates very slow.I use X sever as my window manager.It takes like 5 seconds to open the activities bar and while playing videos its skiping like 2secs every time.

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Registered: 2013-04-10

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Re: Gnome 3 accelerates Very slow

Do you have separate graphics card or are you using built-in GPU of your Atom processor?
please post the output of

lspci | grep VGA

Do you have working GPU acceleration with other applications?
which video driver(s) have you installed?

Daniman.teshome

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Registered: 2013-10-13

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Re: Gnome 3 accelerates Very slow

My output of VGA is

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 07)

and my video driver is mesa.

Daniman.teshome

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Re: Gnome 3 accelerates Very slow

Help please!!!

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Re: Gnome 3 accelerates Very slow

Help please!!!

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … te#Bumping

You didn't answer my question of do you have working hardware acceleration.
Old school method of testing this would be using glxinfo from mesa-demos package:

$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes

if you get "direct rendering: No", something is wrong.

Also try different 2d acceleration method, as instructed in wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … SNA_issues
disabling vsync could also help.

cabrey

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: Gnome 3 accelerates Very slow

Unfortunately, as indicated in the wiki, that graphics chip does not support 3D acceleration.