On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 18:04 -0600, Peter G. wrote: > > 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 :-( This is a known issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1331593 > 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. Yes. That's done on purpose. If you need basic graphics to install, you probably need basic graphics to run too, right? So we keep the setting for the installed system. > I want to get it back to how it was set when I used F23. Is > this possible? Drop 'nomodeset' from the kernel parameters, and if there's a /etc/X11/xorg.conf or file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d that specifies the 'vesa' driver or something like it, wipe that file. > Or have there been some major graphical > changes in F24 that have finally obsoleted my aging machine > (I don't think so, actually)? Couldn't really say. All that kind of change happens upstream, mostly. A lot of it in the kernel. Fewer and fewer people care about i686, for one thing; our kernel team no longer considers it supported, and there's similar feeling upstream. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
