FC2 problems
Phil Schaffner
Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Tue May 25 14:52:21 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 10:30, John Thompson wrote:
> I've just gotten FC2 installed on my dual P-III/600mHz machine and
> have run into some problems. First, grub sat there for 20 minutes without
> writing the boot record. I eventually gave up and rebooted, and of course
> had to do a "rescue" and for the life of me I couldn't see how to tell
> grub to write its boot record, so I gave up and installed lilo instead.
> Ok, one down.
Perhaps "info grub-install"?
>
> Now it doesn't want to run X. I have the dreaded nVidia video hardware,
> but I figured I might be able to use the generic "nv" driver from x.org
> untill nVidia fixes their binary driver. Not so, but curiously, the log
> file doesn't show the nv driver to be the problem, but rather the mouse.
> "Can't find /dev/psaux" (this is a Logitech PS/2 optical wheel mouse that
> worked fine under XFree86-4.3.0). Needless to say /dev/psaux exists and
> has appropriate permissions, and the mouse works fine in the console, as
> well as throughout the entire installation process. I've tired all the
> plausible mouse configurations offered in the mouse config utility, as
> well as several implausible ones, including "no mouse." No dice; it still
> wants to find /dev/psaux.
/dev/input/mice works for me. See
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120859
for other suggestions.
>
> Finally, it refuses to find my NIS server, so I can only log in as "root."
Firewall? Have you tried "service iptables stop"?
Phil
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list