I'm working on a fedora 14 computer. It's a Dell desktop, and it randomly freeze the mouse disabling the left&right clicks at all ( well it responses to the mouse movements).
Yesterday it did it again, so I googled this problem, and ppl suggested it was acpi-related, so I switched to tty2 and added two lines in my /boot/grub/grub.config file.
apm=off
acpi=off
then I restarted my computer, it was booting fine through the fedora logo filling up screen, then it flashed black, and gave me a screen with scattered fedora logo, when it's supposed to be the graphical login screen. Here if I hit ctrl+alt+f3, it doesn't show the indicator but a floating square with a "?" as the only option, and it doesn't do anything when "enter" is pressed.
so this is going nowhere, and I had to push the power button to force restart.
I did try going into single user mode, and changed the /boot/grub/grub.config file back to how it looked before, but it didn't seem to have fixed anything.
any idea what is going wrong and how to get the login screen back? appreciate your help!
p.s. I've got a freely-distributed compiler installed on this computer but I don't have the install files anymore. So I don't want to reinstall the OS.
p.p.s. I made a liveCD USB of fedora16, can I make any use of that?