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Nelson Marques: GNOME3 iso by fcrozat and ATI radeon driver… a quick easy fix!
For some time I wanted to check out GNOME3 and gnome-shell… My current chipset is ATI
M92 RV710 and while the thermal performance with the proprietary driver is somewhat what I
expect, the open source radeon driver does overheat my laptop a lot compared to flgrx. For
the time being, fglrx isn’t really a choice because it just borgs the ‘activities’ bar on
top… And until ATI fixes their driver, there’s no other choice than running with the
standard radeon drm driver, which does provide a very pleasant experience with GNOME3 /
gnome-shell. (…)

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