F16 and gnome 3.2

Rich Boyce rich at ebi.ac.uk
Mon Dec 5 09:41:54 UTC 2011


On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series.  When I did a
> first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome
> fallback mode.  Is this something I am going to need to live with or is
> their a way to retry gnome 3.2.  Sure would appreciate your help.

It's likely to be down to your graphics hardware - Gnome 3.2 requires 
more hardware acceleration than traditional desktop environments. What 
graphics hardware does the machine have? You can see this by running

lspci -v | grep VGA

Rich


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