In F23, all went fine, but in F24, some video problems are showing up. After the grub menu, the machine is supposed to switch to the framebuffer and the boot image (fedora infinity goes from white to filled in) appears and one can switch to the boot message display with ESC. Well, not in F24 :-( Now, it appears that the framebuffer never gets started (is that Pkymouth?). Instead, the boot messages scroll past, in large font, not small like normal under the framebuffer, and then it suddenly switches to a blank display with a wide progress bar at the bottom, starting with white, I think, then, as it moves across the screen to the right, it changes to light blue, and finally dark blue. Next, the screen flashes some and artifacts appear, with coloured boxes and things (mode-setting?) and then the GDM prompt appears, as expected. I click on my user name and the password field opens and I can select either Gnome or KDE. When I select Gnome, there is more mode-switching and artifacts and a black screen, then the desktop appears. When I select KDE, there is a lot of screen flashing (mode- setting?) and artifacts covering half of the screen, then the starfield background image appears and the KDE logo with the progress bar. It is all very jerky, not smooth, like in F23. Once the progress bar reaches the right, the screen fades, by stutters, to black and the Plasma setup menu (the square in the upper left corner with the 3 bars) appears momentarily, before the screen blacks out completely, leaving only the functioning mouse pointer visible. Nothing happens :-( ctrl-alt-del is the only thing I have been able to successfully do. This brings up the logout screen, which appears in stutters and very slowly, only the top portion of the rectangle, then the rest, etc. I successfully log out and GDM reappears, with more mode-switching and I am able to log in to Gnome. There is a whole lot of 'mode-switching' from the grub menu to the appearance of the desktop. I suspect that, for some reason, the framebuffer never gets started right from where grub gives the boot process over to Plymouth and then it's set all wrong. Is there a way I can tell the computer to boot in the proper mode right at the grub prompt, or even set it permanently? My suspicion is that, when I installed from the live CD, I had trouble with the graphical mode, so I had to select the graphics lite from the troubleshooting screen and somehow this setting has been made permanent. I want to get it back to how it was set when I used F23. Is this possible? Or have there been some major graphical changes in F24 that have finally obsoleted my aging machine (I don't think so, actually)? -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
