F16, Gnome fallback, no VGA out on Thinkpad X61s
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:59 am
Hello all,
On my Thinkpad X61s I was running Fedora 15 with no problems aside from Gnome 3's standard bugs.
Did a fresh install this evening of Fedora 16. Upon first boot, the Gnome environment went into 'fallback' mode, i.e. Gnome 2. I could not use my external VGA port because there is no option in the 'Display' section to use a second device and the first one is not even properly identified. I realized that the system was using the VESA driver, despite the presence of the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100.
lspci shows:
--- BEGIN ---
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c)
--- END ---
Now, if I remove 'nomodeset' from the Grub boot parameters, it starts the graphical boot, but GDM does not load! I can used Ctrl-Alt-Fx to switch virtual terminals however.
Next I looked in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
--- BEGIN ---
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection
--- END ---
If I change 'vesa' for 'intel', GDM still refuses to load.
Please help, or tell me that it just won't work with Fedora 16. I can live without Gnome 3. I cannot however survive without my second monitor and Gnome's ability (when supplied with the proper drivers) to perform an ad hoc configuration of the screens graphically.
Thanks,
Alex
On my Thinkpad X61s I was running Fedora 15 with no problems aside from Gnome 3's standard bugs.
Did a fresh install this evening of Fedora 16. Upon first boot, the Gnome environment went into 'fallback' mode, i.e. Gnome 2. I could not use my external VGA port because there is no option in the 'Display' section to use a second device and the first one is not even properly identified. I realized that the system was using the VESA driver, despite the presence of the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100.
lspci shows:
--- BEGIN ---
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c)
--- END ---
Now, if I remove 'nomodeset' from the Grub boot parameters, it starts the graphical boot, but GDM does not load! I can used Ctrl-Alt-Fx to switch virtual terminals however.
Next I looked in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
--- BEGIN ---
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection
--- END ---
If I change 'vesa' for 'intel', GDM still refuses to load.
Please help, or tell me that it just won't work with Fedora 16. I can live without Gnome 3. I cannot however survive without my second monitor and Gnome's ability (when supplied with the proper drivers) to perform an ad hoc configuration of the screens graphically.
Thanks,
Alex