[Fedora 16] Asus N55SF Graphics
 

Good Afternoon guys, i have a Asus N55SF-S1084V and I'm running Fedora 16. I'm having a problem because my monitor supports resolutions up to 1920x1080. But since Fedora shows my monitor as "Unknown", it only shows three "crappy" resolutions (800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024). I've heard about using xrandr but i'm not too familiar with it. Can anyone help me?

If additional information is required, i'll be glad to provide it.

And BTW, GNOME Shell does not work, it always start in fallback mode. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

Please show us your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

Adam

[Fedora 16] Asus N55SF Graphics
 

Hello Adam, Thank You for taking the time to help me.

The file is attached to this post (It it too big to put in text).

Thanks Again for your help :)

You have installed the nvidia proprietary drivers, but have not configured Xorg to use those drivers.

However, I am doubtful you can even use the nvidia GPU on that laptop at the present moment. Laptops with nvidia GPUs provided via Optimus are unsupported by both nouveau and the nvidia driver, though some folks have reported success with projects known as Ironhide and Bumblebee.

First, remove the nvidia drivers. Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file or anything under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ ?

Adam

[Fedora 16] Asus N55SF Graphics
 

Ok, here is the deal, when I removed the nVidia drivers, the system went "KABOOM", it wouldn't boot, so I've formatted it. But as expected the problem continues.

Since it is all new, I've uploaded a new version of the Xorg log file, and my xorg.conf it's described below

As for the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ folder, i have only one file.
This file is described below

Thanks man, again ;)

Did you do anything to generate that xorg.conf file. Fedora 15, at least, didn't have an xorg.conf file by default, and I'd be surprised if F16 does. That's forcing you to use the vesa driver. In addition, you are passing the "nomodeset" option to the kernel, which is going to disable kernel modesetting. That will also force you into using the vesa driver on your Intel GPU.

Remove the xorg.conf file, remove the "nomodeset" option, reboot, and try again.

Adam

It's working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks. Look if it's not too bother, how do I remove the nomodeset option permanently from the kernel. I only know you to remove it at boot time in the grub configuration screen...

if you could help me with this one last step...

Thanks ;)

I believe F16 still uses grub1? In which case, you would edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and remove the option on the kernel line.

nope, the file is empty, and there is a /boot/grub2 folder in there

Sorry, I don't know how to do it with grub2.

Adam

ok, anyway you have been the most helpful you could get. Thank You Seriously!!!

My greatest regards ;)

Just in case you are wondering, you just have to edit the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file, and it's off the the races, thanks again ;)

I have a bout of impatience. I cannot spend long times with grub2 and the multitude of directories that hold configuration scripts.

What I do is as follows:

I edit the grub2/grub.cfg file to what I want.
I save it
I save it again as grub.bak

Since this is a personal fedora, when a new kernel arrives, I look at the grub.bak against the grub2, and bring back the changes.
Normally this latter action takes about 5 minutes.

I guess some weekend when I have time, I will learn more about grub2 and the use of each subdirectory in the *.d

I guess some developers never heard of or followed the KISS principal.

hi folks,

I'm having the same problem as rpcaldeira, i have an ASUS-N55DF laptop and i'm trying to install fedora 16 on it but with no success.

I tried openSUSE before it with no success, tried also ubuntu 12.04 and it worked but wasn't comfortable for me with java development.

i saw that rpcaldeira succeeded in installing F16, and i will be grateful if i get any help.

i followed this link http://www.thpc.info/dual/win7/dualb...d_on_win7.html, for installing fedora alongside with windows 7, i set the nomodeset option on startup, and i'm using a bootable usb stick.

As soon as the desktop loads, a window pops up saying

i closed it and followed the instructions, when i reached the partitioning phase, i got an unhandled exception : "an unhandled exception has occured. This is most likely a bug. Please save a copy of the detailed exception and file a bug report", the log file is in this link https://rapidshare.com/#!download|70...44|log.txt|521 (couldn't directly attach it because its size exceeds the limits of the forum).

this is the output of fdisk -l:
in summary:
sda1 fat32 recovery_partition 25GB
sda2 ntfs Windows 7 system partition 166GB
sda3 ntfs DATA partition 407GB
sda4 extended unallocated 100GB
sdb* refers normally to the usb stick

i'm trying to install F16 into sda4

NB: i installed Fedora 16 into another old machine, with the same partioning structure (but with no recovery) and of course with no nomodeset and it worked with no problem, but i need to install it in my ASUS N55SF.

any help will be appreciated.

i think the problem is that i'm trying to install fedora into an extended partition sda4.
sda1, sda2 and sda3 are primary, i'll try to transform sda3 to an extended - retry installing into a primary partition - then report the results.