> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 20:54 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: > > crackhoar wrote: > > > I'm pretty new to the whoe Linux thing, so maybe I'm missing > > > something > > huge here. I currently have a working version of Fedora Core 2 > > installed, but when I put in the Core 3 installation CD, everything > > works fine until I get to the point where theres mouse input. The screen > > just goes black for a moment after the X shaped mouse cursor appears and > > then a bunch of randomly colored vertical lines appear on the screen and > > it hangs there. After this happened the first time, I did the media test > > for all four CDs and it came back as a PASS for all four. It seems to me > > that I haven't had enough time to input anything wrong into this > > installation procedure, so does anyone have any idea what the problem is? I have this problem on my dualhead nVidia 440MX card, on one of the heads. The other looks fine. If you're using an nVidia card, try doing the install in text mode or using the Xorg vesa driver instead of nv. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
