A week or so ago, I came into this Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, and I boot it with the Fedora 17 Live CD. The system booted, but fell into Gnome 3 Fallback mode. At least the system runs, so I installed to Hard-Disk. when it rebooted, I started to have graphics problems. X either failed to start, or it presented me a completely black login screen (I'm not sure which). Through some finagling, I was able to login on a Console Terminal, and I got my WiFi dongle working (The ethernet cable had been also working). I was then able to run yum for all the updates. Great! Now I have 2 kernels installed: 3.3.4-5 from the live CD and 3.8.4-102 from updates. Now I *still* can't get a visible graphical login to display. After some more playing with the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file, I was able to make the following changes: Changed the system font from TRUE to a real font name. Changed the gfxpayload=keep to 832x624. Now, when I boot either the 3.3.4 kernel, or the 3.3.4 recovery kernel, I have a graphical login screen (at 1024x768 resolution). But, If I try and boot any of the 3.8.4 kernel entries (with the same changes that work for the 3.3.4 boot), I can see a mouse cursor (sometimes in a "subset" of the full screen) that seems to work, but no other visible indication that X is running. Now, here's the kicker: If I position the mouse to where my userid would be listed near the middle of the login screen, click, then wait a couple of seconds, then type my password, My X11 session starts to appear. But, not everything displays perfectly. There are lot's of "dropouts" in the menu texts. For example, there is no visible text on the XFCE applications pulldown (it should say: Applications). In Thunderbird, the top menu bar says: "F ", "Ed ", "V w", "O_ " etc The text in the title bar is OK, as is the text I type in this compose message window. But, the Task Manager buttons are also incomplete (one of them says "T rm -r @kj 3:~"). xrandr lists both the LVDS and the VGA ports at 1024x768, 800x600, & 640x480, and that is running in 1024x768 mode. Any ideas what's wrong? I'd prefer to be running the latest kernel over the older LiveCD kernel.... -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://www.linuxcounter.net/) -- 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
