Well, the latest update to Debian jessie did it. GNOME 3 apparently no longer has a "fallback mode" for X drivers which don't support 3D acceleration. Mine doesn't. And the native GNOME 3 interface is apparently unusable with such an X driver. Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the default desktop for the production jessie installer. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-