[Gllug] Intel Extreme Graphics 2 problem on Fedora 11

[gvimrc]

- Tethys wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:54 PM, gvimrc<gvimrc at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm having problems with my Acer Travelmate 290 on Fedora 11.
>> The board chipset is Intel 855GM and the graphics chipset is
>> Intel Extreme 2. All graphics applications (Inkscape, GIMP,
>> Gnome filesystem browser) display screen rubbish as does the
>> Adobe Flash plugin. Anyone else come across this?
> 
> Yes, albeit with a Radeon X850. But worse than the graphical
> artifacts, the display wobbles horrendously, to the point of
> being unusable.
> 
> Tet
> 

Resolved by setting 'nomodeset' kernel option at boot.

gvim

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