Hi

I have new laptop and sucessfully loaded Fedora 4. My usb mouse/keyboard and jump drive don't work. I am new to Linux. I read some information posted by a user called tBolt and he said something about passing pci=noacpi to the kernel. I don't understand how to do this? Do I have to go to a parameters file and then set this option. If so what is the location and name of the file. Do I have to re-boot.

Are there any other ideas on how to get this working?

Some other things to note under
/dev/input, I see event0, event1, mice, mouse0 and mouse1 files

Under /proc/bus/usb, I don't see devices

Thanks
Chetty

I am not entirely sure that has anything to do with your USB problem, as acpi is concerned with power managment. However, if you want to try, you need to add it to your grub.conf file a la:
yes, you will have to reboot for this to take effect.

Rather though, I think your solution is elsewhere. Can you post the output of "lsmod | grep usb"
Also, the mouse section of your xorg.conf...

The output of the command lsmod | grep usb returned nothing

The output from the xorg.conf

for keyboard
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "Xkbmodel" "pc105"
Option "Xkblayout" "us"

for mouse
Identifer "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3buttons" "yes"

Thanks for your help

Ok, so is this the default fedora kernel? You will need to load some usb modules.

To start, try:
# modprobe usbcore
# modprobe evdev

As for xorg.conf, try changing:
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

to:
Option "Protocol" "auto"

Also, you have a typo. "dev/input/mouse" needs to be "/dev/input/mouse"

then restart X. Usually [ctrl]-[alt]-[backspace] will restart your X server.

Thanks Bulliver.
Sorry for th late response, busy travelling to meet family
I just tried the pci=noacpi option to the Kernel and immedidately the USB and NIC worked.

Thanks for your your help