cpu-intel celleron 1100MHz 128MB RAM and more important display hardware Intel 82810E graphics controller Board-Mercury(AT support) at first i installed Debian(IT SCHOOL latest) then after booting a gray screen wil come(not even the login screen) then it displays { could not open default font fixed X10:fatal IO error 104(connection reseted by the user) on Xserver ":0.0" after 0 request (o known processed) with 0 events remaining } but i could use the terminal at dat time too.. den i tried to reinstall Debian with the old CD(IT SCHOOL test version) again... it was done proper i said thank God... at last there was a Login screen i loged in..... but the same thing the bad old gray screen with the mouse pointer again came.... mouse pointer was not moving..... with gods grace terminal was der for my help. i logged in as root and removed the file /tmp/.X0-lock and restarted the Xserver.. den i got dis { X windows System version 7.1.1 Module loader present ...... ...... blah blah blah..... Markers (==) log file "/var/log/Xorg.o.log" Time..... (==) Using config file:/"etc/.X11/Xorg.config" ..... ..... ..... (EE) AIGLX:screen 0 is not DRI capable Xkb_keycodes {include "xfree86+aliases cqwerty"}; xkb_types {include "Complete"}; xkb_Compatibility {include "Complete"}; } den i thought to boot a live cd(knoppix 3.3 old stuff) to test there is any trouble. machine has got two mouse 1-PS/2 2-serail both were not working with Debian live cd worked fine....... i have pugged the serial mouse.. it too worked fine.... den i tried to fix the trouble with the mouse... and logged in as root to the Debian... and went to edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf In the pointer section the previos entry was { device /dev/input/mice protocol ImPS/2 } i changed dis to { device /dev/input/mouse0 protocol PS/2 } and then restarted then also the same trouble is there bt some thing interesting the MOUSE was moving.... very slow... i need help so wat is the problem here.... and last one more thing this machine works fine in Windows XP......(Even both mouse)....