On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series. When I did a > first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome > fallback mode. Is this something I am going to need to live with or is > their a way to retry gnome 3.2. Sure would appreciate your help. It's likely to be down to your graphics hardware - Gnome 3.2 requires more hardware acceleration than traditional desktop environments. What graphics hardware does the machine have? You can see this by running lspci -v | grep VGA Rich ----------------------------------------- Rich, Thanks for your help !!! This is a new machine that came with Windows 7. I wasted the Windows 7 OS when I installed F16. Here are the results : 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Greg -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org