Problem after installing Slackware 10.2

[Dapper Dan]

Sounds to me like you already have "X." Rather than going, "startx," as root go:

kdm

If you installed everything, that should bring up the "sign in manager." In this you will find "sessions." See what's there and make a choice. If you installed everything you'll have several windows managers and two desktop environments, KDE and XFCE. Choose KDE, sign in and press enter.

[kern]

hahahah-

you were basically staring at fluxbox for 10minutes waiting for it to do something, that is it, thats all fluxbox does.

you want something like KDE .. use the 'xwmconfig' command to change your window manager

I think you might be better off with ubuntu or a friendlier distribution, slackware isnt for beginners so to speak.

but good luck!

havent tried that, and dont know how to. sorry im a noob. can you help me config it?

Login as root on the console and type x86config, answer the questions. This is a command line based configuration program.

If slackware 10.2 uses x.org X server (which i think it does) then these should work:
There might also be xorgcfg that is a graphical x configuration tool. (type xorgcfg as root to start it)

Also there is xorgconfig which will try to automaticall create a configuration file for you (I wouldnt really suggest using it)

Ive tried using the x86config but it doesnt work, i used the xorgcfg and it still didnt work. I read some stuffs in www.slackbook.org and i followed this steps http://www.slackbook.org/html/book.h...TEM-XORGCONFIG
after finishing it i tried my x
# startx

here's the new problem:
White background shows up, a blue bar at the bottom (the word "ONE" on the left side of the bar, a time at the right side) the mouse cursor on the middle and thats it, after 10minutes of waiting nothing happened or even lloads, i follow steps on the site and finsihed the configuration but I cant get my x to work. any ideas? tnx again!!!!

[Amaru]

yeah base from what im experiencing now its really not for newbie. a friend just told me that slack is good. My first distro was Suse 9.1 i think, i installed it a year ago and I removed it after a month, but the installation in that distro was so easy its just like Windows XP. Ill try to fix this and if i cant ill try Ubuntu. I just got my free cds last month from Ubuntu. they shipped it here in the Philippines for free.

[Amaru]

yeah base from what im experiencing now its really not for newbie. a friend just told me that slack is good. My first distro was Suse 9.1 i think, i installed it a year ago and I removed it after a month, but the installation in that distro was so easy its just like Windows XP. Ill try to fix this and if i cant ill try Ubuntu. I just got my free cds last month from Ubuntu. they shipped it here in the Philippines for free.

I chose the fluxbox conz my friend told me to choose thats. hayzzzzzzzzzz

[kern]

I'd go for ubuntu

the drivers you need are on the nvidia linux site though - official ones

heh

I have no idea why he recommended fluxbox to you, or slackware

[Amaru]

now my problem is that my mouse wont work. haha i chose the microsoft in the option.
A4tech 2 buttong with scroll

[kern]

this is well documented

http://slackwiki.org/Scroll_Wheel

[Amaru]

funny thing, when i vi the /etc/X11/XF86Config it contains nothing. its not just the scroll that i cant use. THE MOUSE itself, uhhmmm how can i solve this? tnx

[Dapper Dan]

Slackware 10.2 uses xorg. That's why there is no file. cd your way into the X11 directory and have a look before trying to open a file you assume is there.

dapper@dan:~$ su
Password:
root@dan:/home/dapper# cd /etc/X11
root@dan:/etc/X11# ls
WindowMaker   applnk  gdm       proxymngr  twm  xinit      xorg.conf-fbdev  xserver
Xsession.d    fs      lbxproxy  rstart     xdg  xkb        xorg.conf-vesa   xsm
app-defaults  fvwm2   mwm       susewm     xdm  xorg.conf  xorg.conf~
root@dan:/etc/X11# vi xorg.conf