Slackware

[PING] Robby Workman
I've fired off two emails to elohim with no replies. I very much appreciate your offer but will move ahead with what I'm doing until I hear otherwise from the Gware team. Thanks. -- This signature intentionally left blank http://www.websterscafe.com ... 27 Feb 2007 00:56

Compiz on Slackware
Is possible using AIXGL and Compiz on Slackware? Where can I find the packages? Bye ... 3 Mar 2007 05:25

Lilo problem
Hi, I have a Dell D520 laptop with Slackware 10.2 and a 2.6.19 kernel. This laptop and the 2.6 kernel recognize the hard drive as device sda. I would like to set /etc/lilo.conf up to boot from the root superblock in /dev/sda6 which is my / partition. I have been able to boot with "boot = /dev/sda" but whe... 29 Jan 2007 22:12

2.6.19.2 Kernel Headers
Trying to reconfigure VMware Workstation-5.5.x to work with kernel 2.6.19.2. The perl script keeps hanging when asking for the directory containing the kernel headers. The wording is: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] Although ... 17 Jan 2007 14:33

memory stick
Hi I have a sonyvaio (sz2m/b) on which I have successfully installed slackware 11. Everything went fine except that I cannot mount my memory stick duo. From the dmesg I can see that the driver is recognized by the kernel (2.6.18.1): Vendor: Sony Model: USB HS-CARD Rev: 4.52 Type: Direct-Access ... 24 Nov 2006 07:28

Slack 11 'dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket: Address already in use
On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:39:08 +0100, Kees Theunissen wrote: Rich Grise wrote: While booting my brand new 11.0 system on the brand new box, I get this message: dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket: Address already in use and I have no idea what it means. I'm pretty sure this is the fir... 3 Nov 2006 15:18

Slackware 11 installs but won't boot - help!
I'm trying to install Slackware 11 on an 'empty' new system. It has an Abit AB9 Pro motherboard, two 320Gb disks and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The disks are SATA and so is the CD/DVD drive. I have turned on AHCI in the BIOS so the disks are seen as SCSI disks by Slackware. The installation proceeds and c... 13 Oct 2006 09:53

gtk-gnutella
running gtk-gnutella, it stops with the message "/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 undefined symbol g_intern_static_string" I have removed libpango*, reinstalled, but no difference. -- greymaus Just Another Grumpy Old Man ... 24 Sep 2006 05:28

Can't boot Slackware 11 - sda/hda confusion?
I installed Slackware v.11 (-current from 9/11/06) on a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with Intel Core Duo processor and an internal SATA hard disk drive. I picked the sata.i kernel both for the installation and for running the installed system; the kernel version is 2.4.33.3. I skipped installing LILO since boo... 20 Sep 2006 05:30

2nd hard drive
I've installed a 2nd hard drive to my Slackware 10.2 setup, but I get the following error when I try to format the disk: # fdisk /dev/sdb # Unable to open /dev/sdb The hard drive is a Seagate Ultra ATA/100 500 GB. The BIOS, incidently, doensn't "see" all 500 GBs. Thanks for any help. Mike ... 25 Aug 2006 13:54