Forum: Slackware Linux

Ok, so I just installed slackware 7.0 on my laptop, which only has wireless, via pcmcia. The lighth is flashing on the card, but I can't get...

Ok, here's my problem guys: I recently reinstalled my Slackware 10.0 system and after installing the upgrades of KDE to 3.3.2, I downloaded the...

My distro is KateOS, which is based on Slackware. Started getting problems with depmod. Having rebuilt my own kernel (2.6.29.3), when I run "make...

I like the way colors are used in the console in Linux to show which file is directory and which is executable and etc. The screen command is very...

Hello all, I get this error no matter how I configure X and my kernel... (EE)R128(0): No DFP detected Could not init font path element...

Hey - just starting out with Linux...and I love it so far. However, I'm having problems. The user I created can't mount the CDRW drive. I want to...

I just installed Slack 10.2 on an Intel 865PERL with onboard sound. It is no longer seen. It worked great with 10.1. Any ideas? Thanks

*from the slackware-current changelog* Sun Oct 1 23:50:53 CDT 2006 Slackware 11.0 is released. Thanks to everyone who helped out and made this...

I just dl ndiswrapper 0.8 for my linksys wmp54g pci card (i have slack 10 btw). I have several problems, even though i have been trying to work it...

Hello everybody!! i am new en this forum and linux. I have a problem when i tried run this command (export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T ") on slackware...

Setting up .bashrc in my ~/ is doing nothing and apparently is being ignored by some other profile. If I recall correctly it was working as it...

i have this; point2play-small-2.0.3.tgz i ran this; tar -xzvf point2play-small-2.0.3.tgz and i still have this; point2play-small-2.0.3.tgz

Hello, I run slackware 12.1 and audacious wont add .wav files to the playlist. This means it just wont play them. Why is that? Is there a way to...

I edit my .xinitrc (which is in my home dir) to start some applications like xmms. But it does not work. I read all the manuals about xinitrc and...

when i try to install qtella i get this. make: Entering directory `/home/lamar/Desktop/qtella-0.7.0/src' cd .. && automake-1.8 --gnu ...

is there a way to retrieve all the contents of /boot IF its proven that it was rm? ?

I am trying to add a printer to my slackware but can't find URI of my printer, tryed to use /dev/usb/lp* but CUPS couldn't use them. Thanks in...

Well, I'm using 12.2 and a Hauppauge TV card - I just downloaded and configured MythTV to work, but it took the better part of a day for me to do -...

I installed mplayer from source, but I have a few problems. When I try to start gmplayer from user, I get: vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth...

hi guys... can some one tell me what everything in etc/passwd means... or links to where i can find some useful info