voltmer

I am trying to boot Fedora C2, but for some reason there is no xorg.conf fle to tell it what video and mouse settings to use. what would I type in "Vim" to create my own xorg.conf file. (I don't know the syntax") Help Please!

I can't get FC2 to boot. It brings me to, "localhoas: login" and I have to put in root and PW then I type "startx" and it give me the error "cannot start xserver, cant configure pointer device". I have tried to select my mouse from the config list, but it still hangs tryin to display the desktop. I don't know what to do next. Any suggestions would be helpfull. Thanks!

Thanks for all the suggestions. I have tried to boot from a Knoppix CD with no luck, it hangs during boot. and I have tried other distros as well and they all get hung up. Fedora C1 hangs with the line "hda: ide-driver attached to hda" or somthing like that. Fedora C2 automatically reboots after you hit "enter" on the install screen. I wonder if it is motherboard related? I am using a Asus P4P800E-Deluxe and have PAP os disabled so it should be assigning the IRQS correctly, but I did notice that both my HDs are using the IRQ that it keeps wanting to disable. I have disabled it in the BIOS, but it just picks IRQ5 and has the same problem. I am getting frustrated.

Nothing is on IRQ 11 and if I disable it in the BIOS it tries using a different open IRQ, but it will hang on that one as well. And yes, it runs windows on this system allready. My system: P4 3.3 Ghz 1 Gig of 3200 DDR Radeon x800 Pro 1-160GB HD 1-200GB HD 1-60GB RAID HD

Mandrake 10 Hangs Durring Boot. Durring boot it keeps trying to disable IRQ #11 just before it runs some part of the software intill it fianally gets to "localhost mylogin: login:" Disabling IRQ #11 and then it is stuck in a rut trying to disable the IRQ. I really like Mandrake, but may have to try something else. Thanks!