Thanks for the reply. The laptop has the 3D screen and does NOT have the optimus card. As far as I know, its a plain "NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 3GB" graphics card. How could I run lspci prior to booting to find out ? With grub2, is there a way to force a graphical boot that wouldn't invoke the error I'm seeing ? I am going to be really peeved if I can't run Linux on the XPS17. I ran Windows 7 for an hour and it sucks ! How an OS can run so slow on an i7 with 16 GB of RAM is beyond me. -- 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