On 06/12/11 23:08, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > 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 !!! No problem. > Here are the results : > > 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Ah, I think you probably need to install a driver for your ATI card. I would recommend using the 'akmod-catalyst' package from the rpmfusion repository. Here's their website: http://rpmfusion.org/ Basically you follow the instructions to enable it on your system, and then type sudo yum clean all sudo yum install akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst Reboot, and you should be using Gnome shell (unless you've created or modified any files in /etc/X11). Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rich, I'm impressed !!! How did you know that, and where did I miss the knowledge boat? I am surprised the drivers were not packaged with Fedora. Is this related to license restrictions like mp3? Thanks again for your help. I have installed your suggested drivers from rpmfusion-nonfree and rpmfusion-free repositories. Everything is now working as expected. Thanks again!!!! 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
