I have a Sony Vaio laptop and after installing Fedora 9 I have a small line that is attached to the mouse pointer. I cannot get rid of it but believe that I have to edit my xorg,conf file. I know how to edit the file but not the commands to use. Help please.

Install fedora 12.
does that seem offensive ?
It shouldn't.


Fedora 9 has no updates and never will have.

download the Fedora 12 DVD or CDs and burn it/them.

When you boot from it/them edit the kernel line from grub to add then at least you will be dealing with something that is supported before you ask questions.

Do it now or risk problems later.
I upgraded from 9 to 12 with no major issues, I can't guarantee that will last forever.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases


If you have installed any major programs, you may have to uninstall and reinstall them after the upgrade. This will not affect the upgrade process.

i would not ever try doing a upgrade from fedora 9 to 12

THERE HAVE BEEN FAR TOO MANY CHANGES FOR THAT TO WORK!!!
use gparted and "blank the hard drive ( to unformatted) then let the fedora 12 install dvd format it to ext4

Well my system has been running fine since last year when I did the upgrade. Some non-free programs had to be uninstalled manually, then reinstalled, but other than that it was a breeze.

I don't use ext4, precisely because I would have had to reformat.

Please don't make pronouncements on something that I have already done without incident.

you are an exception to the rule

i ran fedora 4 to 11 and never had a upgrade work right.