Fedora 15 with Acer Aspire

[Antonio M]

2011/6/9 Kalpa Welivitigoda <callkalpa at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:26 PM, antonio.montagnani at alice.it
> <antonio.montagnani at alice.it> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>----Messaggio originale----
>>>Da: callkalpa at gmail.com
>>>Data: 9-giu-2011 13.32
>>
>>>A: "antonio.montagnani at alice.it"<antonio.montagnani at alice.it>, "Community
>> support for Fedora users"<users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>>>Ogg: Re: Re: Fedora
>> 15 with Acer Aspire
>>>
>>>On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:52 PM, antonio.montagnani at alice.
>> it
>>><antonio.montagnani at alice.it> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>----Messaggio originale----
>>
>>>>>Da: callkalpa at gmail.com
>>>>>Data: 9-giu-2011 13.16
>>>>
>>>>>A: "Community
>> support for Fedora users"<users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>>>>>Ogg:
>>>> Re: Fedora
>> 15 with Acer Aspire
>>>>>
>>>>>On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Antonio M
>>>>
>> <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 2011/6/9 Kalpa Welivitigoda
>>>>
>> <callkalpa at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> Today I installed Fedora 15 on my Acer Aspire
>> 4736g
>>>> laptop. It was a
>>>>>>> fresh install. Now my screen seems a bit
>> stretched and the
>>>> font is
>>>>>>> also not that clear. I couldn't get GNOME 3
>> running, it is the fail
>>>>
>>>>>>> safe mode. Any help to solved these two
>> issues,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) Screen stretched
>>>>
>>>>>>> 2) Get GNOME 3 running
>>>>>>>
>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kalpa Pathum
>>>> Welivitigoda
>>>>>>> http://about.me/callkalpa>>>--
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> what do you get with nomodeset option at boot time???
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>>>>>"
>>>> nomodeset" was already there as a kernel argument.
>>>>>
>>>>>When I tried
>> to install
>>>> Fedora it said that it is booting from the cd
>>>>>and then the
>> screen went blank.
>>>> The test media and wizard was almost
>>>>>invisible. Then I
>> managed to install with
>>>> basic video settings.
>>>>>
>>>>>I tried to boot without
>> nomodeset, again the screen
>>>> went blank.
>>>>>
>>>>>I suspect that the brightness
>> of the screen is set to a lower
>>>> level in
>>>>>normal mode (without nomodeset)
>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>Best Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>Kalpa
>>>> Pathum Welivitigoda
>>
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>>>>
>>>> I have two questions:
>>>>
>>>> 1) did you update the fresh installation
>> ??
>>>>
>>>
>>>Yes I did. It installed a new kernel and that also has nomodeset by
>>
>>>default (I installed Fedora 15 with basic video settings, this might
>>>cause
>> this). Still the issue is there. With nomodeset the screen is
>>>stretched.
>> Without nomodeset the screen is like it is switched off.
>>>
>>>> 2) What
>>>> is
>> your graphic card (Intel I suspect)??
>>>>
>>>
>>>Yes it is an Intel one.
>>>
>>>> I mean
>> immediately after fresh
>>>> installation, how did it work??
>>>>
>>>
>>>It just booted
>> up and showed the GUI, and it was stretched.
>>>
>>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>
>> forgot to
>> ask: do you have the driver packages installed???
>>
>
> I have not installed it explicitly. Any clue on where I can find it
> and how to install?
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Antonio Montagnani
>> Fedora 15 Lovelock (Linux)
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>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
>

Please report what is the output of the following command in a terminal:

 rpm -qa xorg-x11-*



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