Posts by MarsPoet

Quote: Originally Posted by drlouis I know as soon as I say this someone will holler at me, but I basically started with Slackware, and think it's a great distro to learn on. It's worked well for me out of the box, and...

Quote: Originally Posted by bsmith Mars Just to let you know if you use the code tags ( the # sign in the bar) you don't have to wory about the formatting. Plus you get Quote: Originally Posted by...

Quote: Originally Posted by noah5720 Well I found running the following commands got my mouse working w/o modifying xorg.conf - modprobe input modprobe mousedev modprobe usbcore modprobe uhci modprobe hid Now...

Quote: Originally Posted by noah5720 Ok, well you would have to explain that further... I don't find those options in my BIOS, I assume you mean disable it in linux? My last experiences with linux was Slack 9.0/9.1 on...

Quote: Originally Posted by spincricket Just wondering what media players you guys are using. I personally use xmms for music, and xine for videos. I think mplayer > xine, however i like the menu bar or option in...

Quote: Originally Posted by noah5720 I used the Slackware 10.2 DVD distro which according to their site uses the 2.4.31 kernel. The boot hangs at the following line: Activating hardware detection:...

Quote: Originally Posted by noah5720 I'm having problems getting my fresh install of Slackware 10.2 to boot. When I get to the portion of boot process involving hardware detection the system stops responding. I waited...

It's kinda messy and really old -- Slackware 7.0 days or so, but here's my .bashrc file where all the aliases begin life: ---BEGIN BASHRC # Bash knows 3 diferent shells: normal shell, interactive shell, login shell. # ~/.bashrc is...

Hiya, Well, the obvious thing is you have your mode lines for the external monitor set to do 1920x1200 so that's what you get. Change those to be accurate for the monitor. Oh, and change the screen size in the screen section...

Heh, couldn't resist this one, so here's one to ponder. http://public.fotki.com/Marspoet/des...owmaker02.html The setup is: 1st laptop: Sager 9860; WindowMaker 0.92; Slackware 10.2 with a 2.4.32 SMP-i686 kernel; ImageMagick...