Let me emphasise that I have been the champion of supporting "older" hardware. I have spent weeks of my life just getting Mir working on the original Atom chips. And before that even trying to support Pentium 3's.
But the decision isn't up to me. My work on Pentium 3 graphics was cut off by Mesa (v8.0?) dropping support for the hardware. And my work on the original Atoms is now also nullified by Ubuntu dropping support for 32-bit installations. I have tried really hard to make sure we can support everyone's hardware, but there are other opposing forces. On the simple matter of priorities though, I think we need to be paying more attention to Ubuntu 17.10's issues on Radeon and Nvidia hardware more than this. Simply because many more people are affected by those problems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1727356 Title: Wayland does not start up on "Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) G33": Shader compilation failed Status in GNOME Shell: Confirmed Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 17.10 Release: 17.10 Upgraded from 17.04 today. Steps to reproduce: - Start the PC or log out/end session in case it's running with an Xorg desktop already. - Attempt to log in, using 'Ubuntu' Expected to happen: Desktop appears. Actually happening: 5 seconds of black screen, then the login screen appears again. Partial diagnosis: - Logging in using 'Ubuntu on Xorg' works fine and as expected. - Extracted a syslog of such a failed attempt, see attached file. --- ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME DisplayManager: gdm3 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-04 (539 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1) Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu5 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4 Tags: artful package-from-proposed third-party-packages Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-25 (0 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo www-data _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1727356/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
