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Beattie
04-02-2002, 03:23 AM
I am going to give Slackware a shot. If any of you remember, I started with debian and that didn't work. Now I am running mandrake because I could get it to work without having to try too hard. Now I want something better, less bloated... something I can really sharpen my teeth on. What do you all think?
Beattie
04-02-2002, 03:27 AM
I forgot to mention something... I saw 3 iso images... I just got the one labeled "install.iso" is there anything else I need to make it go?
scanez
04-02-2002, 04:04 AM
1. Yes the install.iso is all you need to install.

2. Slackware is much the same as Debian with regard to configuration and what not so if that is what you had problems with in Debian, Slackware will likely be similar, but I suggest you still give it a shot :)

3. Why the hell is this in this forum?!?!?!? Was it intentional or another sign of the bad voodoo the boards experience every now and then?
Beattie
04-02-2002, 04:24 AM
it was my stupidity actually... I was reading this forum when I thought of it... then just kinda clicked the "post message" button without thinking. I tried to change it to another forum, but apparently I can't do that. eh, such is life.

My problem with debian was the network card. I have a Netgear FA310 and tried to use the Tulip module... for some reason it didn't want to work.
z0mbix
04-02-2002, 04:39 AM
Originally posted by Beattie:
<STRONG>My problem with debian was the network card. I have a Netgear FA310 and tried to use the Tulip module... for some reason it didn't want to work.</STRONG>

That's not really to do with the distro, but yeah try slackware and if you don't like it, try debian again as they're both sweet :)
Beattie
04-02-2002, 04:56 AM
yea... but tulip works fine under mandrake... eh, I dunno
z0mbix
04-02-2002, 05:14 AM
Originally posted by Beattie:
<STRONG>yea... but tulip works fine under mandrake... eh, I dunno</STRONG>

That's more than likely a configuration problem not a distrobution problem.
Beattie
04-02-2002, 06:25 AM
Well, Here I am. I have slackware installed now and I got X working surprisingly fast. My next question is... how do I get the scroll wheel on my Intellimouse explorer to work?
z0mbix
04-02-2002, 06:34 AM
Originally posted by Beattie:
<STRONG>Well, Here I am. I have slackware installed now and I got X working surprisingly fast. My next question is... how do I get the scroll wheel on my Intellimouse explorer to work?</STRONG>

"X configuration in Slack is hard" is a myth isn't it? :D

You need to edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and add something like:


Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"


under the section:


Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Beattie
04-02-2002, 06:39 AM
ok... next... how do I get sound to work? I have the drivers installed and all but when I try to play something in like xmms... it tells me to check that nothing else is using the sound card and some other things... I think it has something to do with permissions maybe. what do I have to do to fix that? maybe something with /dev/dsp ? or /dev/mixer ?
Hitokiri_X
04-02-2002, 06:58 AM
chmod 666 /dev/dsp* and chmod 666 /dev/mixer*.
z0mbix
04-02-2002, 08:04 AM
If you're using Slackware, go to slackware.com and have a read of the book (http://www.slackware.com/book/) and the FAQ's (http://www.slackware.com/faq/) as all these answers are on there. It'll save you alot of time. The documentation on that site has never failed to help me solve what little problems I have with Slackware :)
scanez
04-02-2002, 01:45 PM
Originally posted by Hitokiri_X:
<STRONG>chmod 666 /dev/dsp* and chmod 666 /dev/mixer*.</STRONG>
Be gone devil, be gone!

Hehe, j/k. That is a poor way to allow user to have permissions to use the sound device, it works but the "better" way to do it is to add the user to the audio group or whatever group the sound device is in ;)
Energon
04-02-2002, 04:06 PM
Yup. It's best to add yourself to the sys group. Though if you're using devfs, you'll have to chown the devices in your startup scripts.
Beattie
04-02-2002, 05:18 PM
granted I don't know what I am doing... but wow, slackware is lame... Everything runs so slowly and it's really hard to upgrade anything. For example I have glibc 2.2.3 and when I try to install things it keeps saying that it needs a glibc &gt;= 2.1.x or something else lower than what I have. How to I make it realize that I do have the good one installed?
uriah.k
04-02-2002, 05:40 PM
Whoah, I've never had that problem.
I also have a Netgear FA310 nic.
If you need yours to work then email me. Especially if you need it to work in slack.
Beattie
04-02-2002, 06:34 PM
once I make changes to inetd.conf what do I have to do to make those changes take effect?
uriah.k
04-02-2002, 06:53 PM
ah, I don't know, but dropping
to the cli and logging out/then in
should do it.
Hitokiri_X
04-02-2002, 08:18 PM
Originally posted by scanez:
[/qb]
Be gone devil, be gone!

Hehe, j/k. That is a poor way to allow user to have permissions to use the sound device, it works but the "better" way to do it is to add the user to the audio group or whatever group the sound device is in ;)[/QB][/QUOTE]

Didn't know that worked for other distros,always thought it was a debian thing only.
Energon
04-02-2002, 11:29 PM
Originally posted by uriah.k:
<STRONG>ah, I don't know, but dropping
to the cli and logging out/then in
should do it.</STRONG>

That actually won't do anything. Daemons don't respond to you logging on/off (except the ones that do, which inetd isn't one of). You have to send inetd the hangup signal (killall -HUP inetd) to get it to reload its config file.

[ 02 April 2002: Message edited by: Energon ]