F-12 upgrade experience with Dell D630

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 11:17 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As the Dell Latitude D630 is one of the more common devices that smolt
>> reports being used by Fedora I thought I'd mention my upgrade
>> experience and issues for F-12.
>>
>> Probably the two usual things that people query are grahics and wifi.
>> The model I have has the Intel IWL-4965AGN device which as expected
>> works fine.
>>
>> I'm having a few issues with the nouveau driver with plymouth in that
>> it doesn't work at all but if I remove all the options from the kernel
>> boot line it gets to X and apart from some initial corruption as GDM
>> comes up its OK from there. I have no idea how to debug this.
>
> Try adding the parameter 'nomodeset' instead of removing any parameters.
> What happens then?

It all works just fine with modesetting off.

Peter