Fedora 18, updated as of 2013/01/17 fails to load the intel_drv, which then fallbacks to vesa. * Intel HD Graphics 3000 Dynamic Video Memory Technology 5.0 Doing an explicit xorg.conf with only the intel driver doesn't work.
Created attachment 680524 [details] Xorg log
kernel-3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64
Created attachment 680535 [details] ACPI dump
nomodeset had been added as a kernel parameter. Removing it removes this issue