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
