Cannot login to F15 without nomodeset

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 18:21 +0530, Manilal K M wrote:
> On 27 April 2011 17:52, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
> > You could try with permissive mode, by adding enforcing=0 to the kernel
> > boot line in grub, to see if this is an SELinux problem.  A new SELinux
> > policy package has been released in Koji with some more fixes.
> 
> I removed nomodeset and added enforcing=0. Now the machine boots up
> and the keyboard is active and I can key in. However, the mouse
> pointer image is stuck on the right-hand corner of the screen, I can
> see the buttons glow as I move the mouse, but the pointer is still
> shown on the right corner.  (Replying with the help of keyboard
> shortcuts)
> 
> I'm confused about the *nomodeset* and *selinux* relation. Can you
> please guide me in right direction?

There isn't one.

nomodeset has the effect of disabling your native graphics driver and
using vesa instead, and this has the effect of disabling GNOME Shell and
using the fallback mode instead (since vesa can't support the Shell), so
it's a major configuration change.

Disabling selinux is just a handy way to workaround any issues that are
being caused by selinux.
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