Slackware

No sda/sdb devices after halfway through boot
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:30:45 +0000, newsgroups(a)rlworkman.net wrote: On 2010-03-06, Andy <andy(a)asjohnson.com> wrote: I "upgraded" (debatable) to -current today, and the default huge kernel boots OK. However, my custom 2.6.33 kernel which was working yesterday with (not-so) -current from December, bo... 11 Mar 2010 12:15

recent updates broke the nvidia binary driver?! (64-current)
It seems that the recent updates broke my binary nvidia driver. The kernel and glibc is blacklisted so the slackpkg did not upgrade them. I'm still on 2.6.32.7 I did not switch off my computer for a few days. Today I did it and bump - can't startx I got the latest nvidia binary driver from their website. It seems ... 6 Mar 2010 12:57

removing emacs
A few months ago I installed emacs 23.1 from source. I just issued: ../configure make make install I know I should've created a slack package for easier management. But I didn't... How can I remove emacs from my system now? The only things I'm going to keep are ~/.emacs and ~/.emacs.d thanks in advance -... 5 Mar 2010 15:02

udev 151.1
Anyone else having problems with the new udev 151-1 in the latest updates in Slack32. System did not boot and had to downgrade to to 141-3 from Slack32 13.0. ... 7 Mar 2010 03:06

64 bit question
Got me a new computer, Acer Aspire X1301 with an AMD Athlon X3 425 processor. Running 64 bit Windows 7 (which I do want to keep on the computer.) I tried to boot up my Slackware 11.0 installation disk and the computer failed to boot from the CD and defaulted back to Windows. Is this something I should have expec... 5 Mar 2010 02:52

x86_64 package in slackware-current 32 bits
The packcage gnuplot-4.2.6-x86_64-1 is in the last ChangeLof for Slackware-current 32 bits. ... 6 Mar 2010 16:16

Printing problem
I have a EPSON Stylus SX100 printer/scanner. The scanner works fine with the iscan driver, but the printer, after the lust upgrade for cups and ghostscript doesn't wowrk. I get the next message: "/usr/libs/cups/filter/pstoraster failed" Any idea? Thanks in advance ... 12 Mar 2010 09:23

Low wattage, fanless, diskless HW for Slackware?
Hi all, do you run Slackware on any such device? I'm looking for a box which can run Apache, maybe a smtp server and little more. I will install packages from Slackware groups "a" and "n", and nothing else. I need an ethernet port, bootable CF card, 64 to 256 MB RAM. Also welcome, but not mandatory, bootable USB... 6 Mar 2010 01:02

slackpkg error
It's self-explanatory. ========================================= WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! ========================================== One or more errors occurred while slackpkg was running: openssl-0.9.8k-i486-3_slack13.0.txz: Not found openssl-solibs-0.9.8k-i486-3_slack13.0.txz: Not fo... 3 Mar 2010 11:46

radeon kms
I need radeon kms to use my x1900GT video card with dri. Once xf86- video-ati-0.6.13 is released which is said to be imminent on phoronix, can we get radeon kms support? As of 2.6.33 kernel support for radeon kms is promoted out of experimental status. ... 1 Apr 2010 20:13