[Linux-users] Fedra 7 - uggh!

[Collins Richey]

Well, I have a need to try out Fedora 7 (see comments in another
post), so I put up Fedora7 from  a DVD in a magazine, and applied all
the available updates (225+).

Let's get the grumbling out of the way first.

<rant>
Fedora has been at this game at least / almost as long as Ubuntu. Why
can't they produce a usable system out of the box? Even the likes of
Slackware can do this.
</rant>

Problems.

1. I can't find any way to get my usb mouse to work. The Fedora
installer doesn't even bother to setup a mouse definition in
xorg.conf. I've tried the same combinations that work on other distros
(Ubuntu, Slackware, PClinuxOS, Debian), but nothing works. Googling
didn't turn up much other than laptop suspend/resume related problems.
Anyone have a clue?

Here's the mouse definition I'm running with on Ubuntu

Section "InputDevice"

        #Option         "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
        #Option         "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

2. What's a bullet-proof way to get my nVidia card working and keep it
working?. Some recommend using packages from  the livna repository,
but I can't find matching sets for all the pieces matching the Fedora
7 kernel.

FWIW, my system has an nVidia MCP51 board with AMD CPU and C51G
[GeForce 6100] (rev a2) video card, 1G memory.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.