7 hrs to dl 3.64 gigs.. not bad... coming from using a 2400 baud dial up in 1992 (born in 84 remember)



its done..

here i go

Jeezuz, I was born in '72. I was actually using a computer when you were hatched.

heh

your old


nelson


HA HA

/nelson

ok now im on slack ware

how do i get it to log in with a certin user every time and how do i have it startx everytime

My mouse wheel is not workig and neither is my Sound

Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf make sure you have the ZAxis line referenced below...
As root, try running alsaconf to congire the soundcard. Let me know if that doesn't work.

For a graphical login, edit the /etc/inittab file and change runlevel from 3 to 4...
As far as automagical logins, I have never tried to do that, and would never recommend it.

TI-994A Baby!!!

:D

Man, you were spoiled rotten. All I had was a Sinclair 1000.

hahaha

It was my Dad's, but I ended up using it more than him. Parsec with the voice modulator rocked! Was stoked when we got the C64 though. Car Wars was probably the best text based game I've ever played.

Ok the ZAxis did not fix my mouse wheel problem- but the alsaconf did fix the sound-but now no mixer shows up on start up?

a few other things i am notcing- My DVD's wont play do i need the libcss or something like i did in suse?

also when i plug in my thumb drive it is not automatically reconized like it was in suse-

also- My NTFS partitions are locked to be accessed by root and not by anyone else any suggestions on this? i will probaby stick with slackware if i can work out these bugs-


where is Slackwares version of YaST? or is there not one?

jsut curious?/

thanks

Chris

ttt

What protocol are you using for your wheel mouse?

Check this line...
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

Yes, you need libcss just like SUSE.

You need to mount drives manually (which incidentall you needed to do under SUSE in order to get full asynchronous speeds (or at least I did)). Here's what I usually do...

mkdir /mnt/flash
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash

when done using,

umount /dev/sda1

For your shared partition, edit your /etc/fstab file something like this...

/dev/hda6 /shared vfat auto,rw,umask=000 1 0

As far as YaST. Nope. None available. You can try using the normal KDE control center if you like. I don't use it for anything other than configuring my desktop settings, so couldn't tell you if it's any good.

For a mixer, from a CLI run "alsamixer", and save your settings. Then you should be able to use KMix in KDE like you normally do.

Oh forgot.

Updating packages. Slack doesn't have a built-in product like SUSE Watcher for updating. There are several options in the "/extras" directory though. Most recommend slapt-get (supposed to be like apt-get for Debian) or slackpkg or swaret. You can google them for reviews etc. The one thing you MUST do, is ALWAYS read the CHANGELOG for the patches. Slack updates MUCH less frequently than other distros (mostly because it includes a lot less installed software), so reading the changelog is simple.

One of the most popular choices a Slackware user makes, is that they compile there own software/kernels, rather than relying on a distro or someone else. I mean, come on, is...

rpm -i --force file.rpm

...really that much more difficult than...

tar -zxvf file.src.gz
./config
make
make install

???

(OK, I am an unabashed Slackware bigot)

Anyways, while I always do the source compile, I also always use the "checkinstall" tool (also available under /extras). Change the last command like so...

tar -zxvf file.src.gz
./config
make
checkinstall

...and it will create a .tgz "package" (similar to an RPM) for use in the Slackware package manager. Then if for any reason you need to uninstall/reinstall, you can use an "rpm-like" command...

installpkg file.tgz
removepkg file.tgz

Also run "pkgtool" for a simple package manager utility.

Also, if you NEED to install an RPM (yes, I hate to admit that not all software people make source tarballs available, those bastage), you can use a simple utility to convert it to a .tgz package...

rpm2tgz file.rpm file.tgz

OK, two more things I forgot to mention that should help...

www.linuxquestions.org has a great forum community with separate fora for each of the most popular distros. Great info there for SUSE and Slack users.

Also, if you prefer using packages rather than compiling your own apps, www.linuxpackages.net is a great site. Since 11.0 just came out, you may not find a whole lot just yet, but they grow quickly. Hell, compile and use checkinstall to create some packages and upload for others if you feel generous.

I checked, but libdvdcss is only available for 10.2 and below, so feel free to make one for 11.0 and submit it.

Found these two links today, will give you the Linux Equiv to Windows software...

http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
http://www.linuxeq.com/