F16, Gnome fallback, no VGA out on Thinkpad X61s

[ajacques]

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

[ajacques]

Removing xorg.conf solved the problem. I think that the source of the problem was during the installation: the external monitor was connected and the installation problem didn't like it, so it did some funny things like the xorg.conf.

Thanks anyway!