F16 and gnome 3.2

[Rich Boyce]

On 06/12/11 23:08, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> 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
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Rich,
>
> Thanks for your help !!!

No problem.

> Here are the results :
>
> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Ah, I think you probably need to install a driver for your ATI card. I 
would recommend using the 'akmod-catalyst' package from the rpmfusion 
repository. Here's their website:

http://rpmfusion.org/

Basically you follow the instructions to enable it on your system, and 
then type

sudo yum clean all
sudo yum install akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst

Reboot, and you should be using Gnome shell (unless you've created or 
modified any files in /etc/X11).

Rich