Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
On 06/12/11 23:08, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series. When I did a first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome fallback mode. Is this something I am going to need to live with or is their a way to retry gnome 3.2. Sure would appreciate your help. It's likely to be down to your graphics hardware - Gnome 3.2 requires more hardware acceleration than traditional desktop environments. What graphics hardware does the machine have? You can see this by running lspci -v | grep VGA Rich - Rich, Thanks for your help !!! No problem. Here are the results : 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Ah, I think you probably need to install a driver for your ATI card. I would recommend using the 'akmod-catalyst' package from the rpmfusion repository. Here's their website: http://rpmfusion.org/ Basically you follow the instructions to enable it on your system, and then type sudo yum clean all sudo yum install akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst Reboot, and you should be using Gnome shell (unless you've created or modified any files in /etc/X11). Rich -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 17:13 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On 06/12/11 01:00, Aaron Konstam wrote: gnome-shell is installed but I only get fail-safe mode. Any other ideas? Which version of gnome do you have installed? 3.2? I know 3.0 didn't work with this intel chip. yum list gnome-shell should tell you this. Rich --- Rich, I have gnome 3.2 for sure : gnome-shell.x86_643.2.1-2.fc16 @anaconda-0 Any other ideas?? Greg As I said somewhere else I have an Intel chip which worked with F15 and Gnome 3 but does not work with F16 and Gnome 3.2/ -- === The typical page layout program is nothing more than an electronic light table for cutting and pasting documents. === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcglobal.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
On 12/07/2011 09:27 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: As I said somewhere else I have an Intel chip which worked with F15 and Gnome 3 but does not work with F16 and Gnome 3.2/ Does your /etc/default/grub file have nomodeset in it? More details here: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-November/408334.html - Mike -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
On 06/12/11 23:08, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series. When I did a first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome fallback mode. Is this something I am going to need to live with or is their a way to retry gnome 3.2. Sure would appreciate your help. It's likely to be down to your graphics hardware - Gnome 3.2 requires more hardware acceleration than traditional desktop environments. What graphics hardware does the machine have? You can see this by running lspci -v | grep VGA Rich - Rich, Thanks for your help !!! No problem. Here are the results : 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Ah, I think you probably need to install a driver for your ATI card. I would recommend using the 'akmod-catalyst' package from the rpmfusion repository. Here's their website: http://rpmfusion.org/ Basically you follow the instructions to enable it on your system, and then type sudo yum clean all sudo yum install akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst Reboot, and you should be using Gnome shell (unless you've created or modified any files in /etc/X11). Rich --- Rich, I'm impressed !!! How did you know that, and where did I miss the knowledge boat? I am surprised the drivers were not packaged with Fedora. Is this related to license restrictions like mp3? Thanks again for your help. I have installed your suggested drivers from rpmfusion-nonfree and rpmfusion-free repositories. Everything is now working as expected. Thanks again Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 10:04 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: On 12/07/2011 09:27 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: As I said somewhere else I have an Intel chip which worked with F15 and Gnome 3 but does not work with F16 and Gnome 3.2/ Does your /etc/default/grub file have nomodeset in it? More details here: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-November/408334.html - Mike Yes. Removing nomodset prevents the machine from booting. -- === Ego sum ens omnipotens. === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcglobal.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
On 06/12/11 01:00, Aaron Konstam wrote: gnome-shell is installed but I only get fail-safe mode. Any other ideas? Which version of gnome do you have installed? 3.2? I know 3.0 didn't work with this intel chip. yum list gnome-shell should tell you this. Rich -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
On 05/12/11 14:30, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 09:41 +, Rich Boyce wrote: On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series. When I did a first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome fallback mode. Is this something I am going to need to live with or is their a way to retry gnome 3.2. Sure would appreciate your help. It's likely to be down to your graphics hardware - Gnome 3.2 requires more hardware acceleration than traditional desktop environments. What graphics hardware does the machine have? You can see this by running lspci -v | grep VGA Rich In my case thew result is: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if oo (VGA Controller) How exactly is this controller lacking and how do you identify a video controller that will work with Gnome w3.2? I've just been trying to find this out, and not succeeded after a few minutes of googling. The Gnome folk say that 'accelerated graphics hardware' is needed. However, I have a machine here with an intel 82945G/GZ and it can run Gnome-shell fine. So this is a little odd. Can you just run this to make sure you have gnome-shell installed: yum list gnome-shell If it says 'Available' instead of 'Installed', then you can install it with: sudo yum install gnome-shell Reboot, then see if you get gnome-shell when you log in. Rich Rich, Mine has gnome-shell already installed as well. Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
On 06/12/11 01:00, Aaron Konstam wrote: gnome-shell is installed but I only get fail-safe mode. Any other ideas? Which version of gnome do you have installed? 3.2? I know 3.0 didn't work with this intel chip. yum list gnome-shell should tell you this. Rich --- Rich, I have gnome 3.2 for sure : gnome-shell.x86_643.2.1-2.fc16 @anaconda-0 Any other ideas?? Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series. When I did a first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome fallback mode. Is this something I am going to need to live with or is their a way to retry gnome 3.2. Sure would appreciate your help. It's likely to be down to your graphics hardware - Gnome 3.2 requires more hardware acceleration than traditional desktop environments. What graphics hardware does the machine have? You can see this by running lspci -v | grep VGA Rich - Rich, Thanks for your help !!! This is a new machine that came with Windows 7. I wasted the Windows 7 OS when I installed F16. Here are the results : 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series. When I did a first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome fallback mode. Is this something I am going to need to live with or is their a way to retry gnome 3.2. Sure would appreciate your help. It's likely to be down to your graphics hardware - Gnome 3.2 requires more hardware acceleration than traditional desktop environments. What graphics hardware does the machine have? You can see this by running lspci -v | grep VGA Rich -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 09:41 +, Rich Boyce wrote: On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series. When I did a first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome fallback mode. Is this something I am going to need to live with or is their a way to retry gnome 3.2. Sure would appreciate your help. It's likely to be down to your graphics hardware - Gnome 3.2 requires more hardware acceleration than traditional desktop environments. What graphics hardware does the machine have? You can see this by running lspci -v | grep VGA Rich In my case thew result is: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if oo (VGA Controller) How exactly is this controller lacking and how do you identify a video controller that will work with Gnome w3.2? -- === If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost. === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcglobal.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
Re: F16 and gnome 3.2
How exactly is this controller lacking and how do you identify a video controller that will work with Gnome w3.2? I've just been trying to find this out, and not succeeded after a few minutes of googling. The Gnome folk say that 'accelerated graphics hardware' is needed. However, I have a machine here with an intel 82945G/GZ and it can run Gnome-shell fine. So this is a little odd. Can you just run this to make sure you have gnome-shell installed: yum list gnome-shell If it says 'Available' instead of 'Installed', then you can install it with: sudo yum install gnome-shell Reboot, then see if you get gnome-shell when you log in. Rich gnome-shell is installed but I only get fail-safe mode. Any other ideas? -- === Anything anybody can say about America is true. -- Emmett Grogan === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcglobal.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
