On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 16:15 +0000, Steve T wrote: > Good afternoon, > I have been running my laptop on various versions of FC without a > problem and am currently on FC16 running Gnome 3 in full mode. > Recently the FC16 Kernel was updated from 3.4.11 to 3.6.2 and my > laptop (Dell Latitude D610 ) would no longer boot - although I could > go back to any 3.4 kernel and it booted ok and worked under Gnome 3. > There were no messages on the failed 3.6.x boot - the screen just went > blank. After a bit of delving it seemed that a similar problem had > been reported in relation to Plymouth and modesetting. Following that > track lead me to 'Bug 845745 - kernel version 3.5.0-2 hangs at boot > with modesetting: "conflicting fb hw usage radeondrmfb vs VESA VGA - > removing generic driver" ' on Fedora Bugzilla. > I did try the 'nomodeset', and that does allow a boot under 3.6.2, but > then Gnome 3 goes into fallback mode. > > Does anyone know if this will be fixed under FC16, or is this a > generic Kernel fix that will appear across all releases that use that > kernel? Does anyone know how to get around this issue? Presumably the monitor must have been recognised by the 3.4 kernels - does anyone know how I can get the monitor to be recognised by the 3.6 kernels? -- 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
