Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 16:17 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > CRAP! Forget my other post too. Just replace interactive with command" and we should be good. > The basic thing to know about vi is that it has three modes. Input, > replace and interactive. Default on startup is interactive. From he

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 16:17 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > Sorry, I meant to change this before I sent it. > The basic thing to know about vi is that it has three modes. Input, s/three/four/ s/Input/Command, input/ If you're not familiar with regex, the above may be meaningless to you. >

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:59 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Kwan Lowe wrote: > > Have you verified if the synaptics package itself is installed: > > > > rpm -q synaptics > > 'not installed'. Is there more to this package than just the library (.so)? > > > If not, is this laptop connected to

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Klinosky
Kwan Lowe wrote: > Have you verified if the synaptics package itself is installed: > > rpm -q synaptics 'not installed'. Is there more to this package than just the library (.so)? > If not, is this laptop connected to the Internet? If so, you can do: > >yum -y install synaptics > > This

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Hello. > I burned a CD with the 5.2 netinstall iso, and installed it onto a > laptop (Acer Aspire 3680). Note that I'm *totally* new to laptops. > > The install went fine. But, when I boot it, it errors at the user login. > A screen comes

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 22:23 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: ... > I have some Fedora install disks (if they'd be of any help) - but not > a > rescue CD. It seems like CentOS doesn't have a rescue CD - would > Fedora's help? The CentOS install disk IS the rescue CD - try install CD #1 (or the DVD

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Ok, I modified xorg.conf, but it didn't help (still getting that error, > and X refuses to start). > > I could re-install, but I don't like that notion (I definitely don't > want all the packages in the default setup, so I have to go thru

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Klinosky
Ok, I modified xorg.conf, but it didn't help (still getting that error, and X refuses to start). I could re-install, but I don't like that notion (I definitely don't want all the packages in the default setup, so I have to go thru every group and sub-group to de-select most - that was a big has

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Linux Advocate
- Original Message > From: Michael Klinosky > > The X wiki suggested that I try adding this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "1" > EndSection > > Using "cat xorg.conf", I seeSection "InputDevice" , which refers > to the S