Slakware On a 8887

Citan,

I'm giving Slackware 9 a try right now. I am installing on a 4760, so I am not sure how divergent the hardware is, but, I found that the default setup would lock up for me on boot until I disabled the autoprobe of PCMCIA and hot pluggable devices. It looks like one of those drivers has issues and apparently that driver will have to be found and rooted out before PCMCIA can be enabled. What I did was boot from CD, mount my root filesystem on /mnt, go into /mnt/etc/rc.d, and renamed rc.pcmcia to rc.pcmcia.disabled and rc.hotplug to rc.hotplug.disabled. This made my machine boot cleanly. I wasn't sure from your post if the install CD won't boot, or if the initial install (after you have used the CD and removed it) is what won't boot. If the CD itself won't boot, you might look into the different available images and their options based on whatever was the last thing that tried to start up before the hang.

Having run Slackware before, I like it and I'm hoping it can be made to work on the Sagers. However, the problem I'm having now is that the mouse won't work. I've got both the trackpad and also an external USB optical mouse attached, and I've tried gpm on /dev/mouse with EVERY ONE of the types (imps2, exps2, bare, ncr, you name it) and none of them function. Not sure what I'm missing, but X is kinda hard to navigate with keyboard only.

Hope that is even slightly helpful...

- Ratha

Both Mandrake and Red Hat on my 8880 locked up cause of firewire I assume it's the same on Slakeware.
If you do the advanced setup in Mandrake I know theres a way to disable detection of various type of hardware. Thats the only way I got mandrake to install.

Well I'm up and running with xiphux's help - mouse was /dev/psaux. So far so good on 4760/slackware.

As far as firewire goes, judging by my base install the Slackware 9.0 bare.i kernel has IEEE1394 support available as a module, but does not load it in any of the default init scripts.