i have dell vostro 1510, installed fedora 10. whenever i start my laptop it boots fedora, but the keyboard n mouse are not working. i need to shut down it. but if i connect usb mouse, it works but unable to enter password. At the next start it works like normal. Any Idea. thanx.

Can you boot from a Live CD and examine your logs?

You should be looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log

There should be information about the failure(s) of mouse and keyboard.

Thanx. but i donot have fedora live cd. Is there any another way?

or the fedora 10 install dvd

you might think about using fedora 11 fedora 10 will hit End of Life in late Nov or early Dec.
two months time

Knoppix, Ubuntu, any of the LiveCD's would do it for you. Remember, you just need to mount the var and root partitions in order to read the XOrg.0.log and take corrective action in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

There's nothing magical about booting from Fedora to fix a Fedora problem, I think.

i boot my laptop using ubuntu 9.10 live cd.
i got this message, which i think is the problem.

(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel

Above message i took from that file. Is it any error and how to overcome it? Thanx

Thhis link shows a similar failure from about a year ago.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=982009


Also, check the reference to Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" in the following:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Featu...th_the_xorg.co