On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 14:31 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > Just when I was getting accustomed to gnome3, and liking it, my system > switched to fallback mode automatically. I thought the problem was > something I had done, and when I tried to fix it I only made things much > worse and eventually even broke yum. I decided to start over with a new > install, but I have not been able to fix the problem. Of course it is > easy to blame a kernel update, but I have not seen any other posts that > specifically address this. > > This machine is an HP laptop (AMD A4-3300M APU with Radeon(tm) HD > Graphics × 2) with ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA > controller]. > > At the time of the fresh install gnome3 would not work, and > automatically dropped back to fail safe mode. > > In the manner that I did on the original install I did the following : > > #1. Install of akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst from rpmfusion > #2. Removal of nomodeset from grub2.cfg > How did you remove nomodset? You need to edit /etc/default/grub file to remove the nomodset. Then run: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg . > gnome-shell has been installed : > Package gnome-shell-3.2.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64 already installed and latest > version > > I am still unable to boot to gnome3 without going to failsafe mode; your > help would be appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Greg Ennis -- ======================================================================= Virtue is its own punishment. -- Denniston Righteous people terrify me ... virtue is its own punishment. -- Aneurin Bevan ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aaron, Thanks for the reply. I had removed nomodeset from the /etc/default/grub file. I did generate grub.cfg in the manner you suggested, but that did not fix the problem for me. I still have it removed, but the problem did not get fixed until I updated the new kernel 3.3.0-8.fc16.x86_64, and then yum removed akmod-catalyst and xorg-x11-drv-catalyst Thanks to everyone for their help on this. 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
