Ive read a few similar threads, but none were the same issue...
Thinkpad Edge 13 with Intel gma450. No AMD or nVidia at all. Have been using F15/F16 since their respective release dates without any display issues on this laptop.
I installed F17 DVD iso and overwrote my existing installation of F16. I chose encrypted LVM autosetup (previously I always used desktop install media and auto-setup partitions without encryption).
Install went fine, rebooted and got grub screen (win7 boots fine still), and chose Fedora to boot. I got 2 lines of text, second one being "loading initial ramdisk" then an empty screen. It's not true "screen blanked" as in no signal whatsoever, but it's empty of any text/graphics. Just black screen.
I tried rebooting a few times to no avail. Then I guessed that it's probably waiting for the encryption passphrase, so I entered that, then pressed enter. After about 30-45 seconds, I eventually did get Gnome3 login. It's the wrong resolution: 1024x768 instead of 1376x768, and there are no widescreen resolutions available to chose from in System Settings.
Is this a pure encryption passphrase display issue? Is the fact that I don't get the right resolution related? yum upgrade doesn't upgrade anything at all, despite having downloaded the DVD iso on release date, but i've just installed it! seems weird that there are no updates whatsoever?
---------- Post added at 03:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:02 AM ----------
I saw on another website that someone has an identical problem to mine but on a Macbook:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...screen-947587/
It was a monitor problem by the sound of things on that site. That would explain both the blank screen and the wrong resolution if the monitor was not getting ID'ed properly.
Anyone know how to check what the monitor is being recognised as?
---------- Post added at 03:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:33 PM ----------
Bug registered here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851110
---------- Post added at 07:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:34 PM ----------
ok, I read a bit about nomodeset and gfxpayload. nomodeset was not recognised by grub and I didnt investigate why, but then I removed the gfxpayload line completely and the display then showed the passphrase text prompt, and did show a basic graphical progress bar as in RHEL during boot before getting to gdm.
Once in gdm, I can see that it is using the vesa driver. So it's probably not recognising my gma450 whatsoever if it's using the vesa driver, or is this a byproduct of removing the gfxpayload option?
Does someone know how to force it is use the xorg-x11-intel driver??
---------- Post added at 08:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:40 PM ----------
spamming my own post again...
[andrew@fuji X11]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
I never remember it being called a Mobile 4 Series Chipset before. Has the naming convention changed? It is definitely a GMA450HD that I have in there.
xorg.conf verifies its vesa driver in use. The installation must have set that for some reason. Please!!! Anyone know how I can set the right driver so that the whole boot process works fine?
---------- Post added at 08:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:06 PM ----------
.. And then, I figured out where "nomodeset" was in the boot options, and as it was already set, I removed it. And then I got graphical boot, saw the graphical encryption passphrase entry box, then saw the "F", but when it gets to the end of bootup, i get coloured text on screen with one item that fails, and I dont get gdm login screen.
If I reboot and dont do anything, then I enter passphrase blindly and get gdm just fine but with wrong resolution.
---------- Post added at 09:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:53 PM ----------
Problem solved:
xorg.conf had one stanza for the video driver. it was set to vesa. I simply changed that to "intel" instead, then edited my grub bootup options to remove the "nomodeset" option, and now it all bots up perfectly in 1366x768 resolution.
Anyone got any ideas as to why this installation ****ed up so spectacularly?
Thinkpad Edge 13 with Intel gma450. No AMD or nVidia at all. Have been using F15/F16 since their respective release dates without any display issues on this laptop.
I installed F17 DVD iso and overwrote my existing installation of F16. I chose encrypted LVM autosetup (previously I always used desktop install media and auto-setup partitions without encryption).
Install went fine, rebooted and got grub screen (win7 boots fine still), and chose Fedora to boot. I got 2 lines of text, second one being "loading initial ramdisk" then an empty screen. It's not true "screen blanked" as in no signal whatsoever, but it's empty of any text/graphics. Just black screen.
I tried rebooting a few times to no avail. Then I guessed that it's probably waiting for the encryption passphrase, so I entered that, then pressed enter. After about 30-45 seconds, I eventually did get Gnome3 login. It's the wrong resolution: 1024x768 instead of 1376x768, and there are no widescreen resolutions available to chose from in System Settings.
Is this a pure encryption passphrase display issue? Is the fact that I don't get the right resolution related? yum upgrade doesn't upgrade anything at all, despite having downloaded the DVD iso on release date, but i've just installed it! seems weird that there are no updates whatsoever?
---------- Post added at 03:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:02 AM ----------
I saw on another website that someone has an identical problem to mine but on a Macbook:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...screen-947587/
It was a monitor problem by the sound of things on that site. That would explain both the blank screen and the wrong resolution if the monitor was not getting ID'ed properly.
Anyone know how to check what the monitor is being recognised as?
---------- Post added at 03:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:33 PM ----------
Bug registered here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851110
---------- Post added at 07:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:34 PM ----------
ok, I read a bit about nomodeset and gfxpayload. nomodeset was not recognised by grub and I didnt investigate why, but then I removed the gfxpayload line completely and the display then showed the passphrase text prompt, and did show a basic graphical progress bar as in RHEL during boot before getting to gdm.
Once in gdm, I can see that it is using the vesa driver. So it's probably not recognising my gma450 whatsoever if it's using the vesa driver, or is this a byproduct of removing the gfxpayload option?
Does someone know how to force it is use the xorg-x11-intel driver??
---------- Post added at 08:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:40 PM ----------
spamming my own post again...
[andrew@fuji X11]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
I never remember it being called a Mobile 4 Series Chipset before. Has the naming convention changed? It is definitely a GMA450HD that I have in there.
xorg.conf verifies its vesa driver in use. The installation must have set that for some reason. Please!!! Anyone know how I can set the right driver so that the whole boot process works fine?
---------- Post added at 08:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:06 PM ----------
.. And then, I figured out where "nomodeset" was in the boot options, and as it was already set, I removed it. And then I got graphical boot, saw the graphical encryption passphrase entry box, then saw the "F", but when it gets to the end of bootup, i get coloured text on screen with one item that fails, and I dont get gdm login screen.
If I reboot and dont do anything, then I enter passphrase blindly and get gdm just fine but with wrong resolution.
---------- Post added at 09:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:53 PM ----------
Problem solved:
xorg.conf had one stanza for the video driver. it was set to vesa. I simply changed that to "intel" instead, then edited my grub bootup options to remove the "nomodeset" option, and now it all bots up perfectly in 1366x768 resolution.
Anyone got any ideas as to why this installation ****ed up so spectacularly?