F18: Fedora icon on gdm replaced by a fuzzy rectangle

James Wilkinson fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Tue Nov 27 21:45:21 UTC 2012


Nick Urbanik wrote:
> I have installed Fedora 18 on seven machines using yum distro-sync,
> and am happy with the result.
> 
> On my son's machine, however, gdm presents a fuzzy rectangular patch
> instead of the Fedora logo.  This is also the case with the icons at
> the top right of the gdm screen, until you move the mouse over them.
> 
> Can anyone suggest what I might be able to do here?

Sounds like a graphics driver oddity. What sort of graphics do you have
on that machine?

What does 
lspci | grep VGA
return?

Thanks,

James.

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