Questions about Slack 10

[Hillbillyd]

Ok, I got Slack 10 installed the other day, and after much reading and research I finally got the desktop to come up, got my internet connection established, and a few other minor details worked out(like installing GNU Chess, apparently it was not installed even though I had the launcher for it). I have a couple of questions though:

1. When I log in as myself, not root, and try to run a comand in terminal, it says "command not found" most of the time. Even if I su to root, same thing. But I can log out, and log in as root, go to terminal and run the command. How can I change this?

2. I have tried running Xf86config to set up my video, but apparently slack does not have that command. Is there a different one to use? I went to slackware's site and used all the commands they recommend, but nothing worked. ???

3. I would like to set up my internet connection (which is dsl) to start up at boot instead of having to go to terminal as root and type "start-adsl). How can I do this?

4. Is there a way to put Shutdown, Reboot, etc on the welcome screen?

Sorry for so many questions, this is just way different than Red Hat 9. I am continuing my search even after I submit this post. Thanks for any replies:)

[MorphiusFaydal]

OK..

1) dont know, sounds like a messed up $PATH variable.. dont ask me how to fis though..

2) Slack 10 doesnt use XFree86 anymore, which is what that command goes to. there is a good tutorial (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml) on gentoo.org that tells how to install and configure XOrg, which is what Slack10 does use.. ok.. so its not totally relevant, but the config part is the same

3) not sure

4) not sure, i use console login and then startx from there.. so its a simple 'three-finger salute' for me...

[fatTrav]

3 edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local to add the start adsl command.

4 look at the login-screen setup command. look for the Security tab nad look for the "Show Actions" or something similiar box and check it.

[serz]

3) It's adsl-setup, adsl-start, adsl-stop and adsl-status.

[Hillbillyd]

Originally posted by serz
3) It's adsl-setup, adsl-start, adsl-stop and adsl-status.

Oops, my bad. I'm still a newb, that's what I meant to write. ;)