Everyone, Just when I was getting accustomed to gnome3, and liking it, my system switched to fallback mode automatically. I thought the problem was something I had done, and when I tried to fix it I only made things much worse and eventually even broke yum. I decided to start over with a new install, but I have not been able to fix the problem. Of course it is easy to blame a kernel update, but I have not seen any other posts that specifically address this.
This machine is an HP laptop (AMD A4-3300M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics × 2) with ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]. At the time of the fresh install gnome3 would not work, and automatically dropped back to fail safe mode. In the manner that I did on the original install I did the following : #1. Install of akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst from rpmfusion #2. Removal of nomodeset from grub2.cfg gnome-shell has been installed : Package gnome-shell-3.2.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64 already installed and latest version I am still unable to boot to gnome3 without going to failsafe mode; your help would be appreciated. Thank you, Greg Ennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everyone, The new kernel just released 3.3.0-8.fc16.x86_64 fixes the problems with this ATI 9648 controller. I now have gnome3 working on F16. After the installation of the new kernel my laptop failed to present the login screen; all that appeared was a black screen, but I could access the laptop remotely with a terminal interface. I had to yum remove akmod-catalyst as well and xorg-x11-drv-catalyst. After these were removed and When I rebooted I was able to get into gnome3. 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
