Slackware

Character encoding in text console
Hi, Sometimes I use the text consoles instead of X, in my Slackware64. The problem is that in CLI or any editor: pico, nano, vim, when I try to use accented characters I cannot do it. If I press ' and the e, in X I get é, in text console I get 'e. What should I look into in order to solve this? My settings... 23 Apr 2010 20:34

Make a a wireless access node...
Is there a quick way to make a wireless access node in slackware? John. -- Using the Laptop at home. ... 23 Apr 2010 20:34

minor tcl/tk breakage
This only hits poor fools like me trying to build extensions like Togl... Running slackware64-current with tcl-8.5.8-x86_64-1. /usr/lib64/tclConfig.sh contains TCL_SRC_DIR='/tmp/tcl8.5.8' However, the following file ${TCL_SRC_DIR}/generic/tclInt.h is actually at /usr/include/tcl-private/generic/tclInt.h ... 26 Apr 2010 02:36

Slackware64-current - nfsd module issue
Any thoughts: when nfsd gets a request for a directory mount it fails and this shows up in /var/log/messages Apr 18 22:56:38 phoenix modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting nfsd (/lib/modules/2.6.33.1/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko): Invalid module format This is the standard kernel that came with Slackware64-current on ... 23 Apr 2010 20:34

Assigning USB devices fixed mountable details (udev rules?)
Having fun here ATM trying to nail down a USB camera. This is about all the useful info (there's more,but its all stuff I can't use) I get with "lsusb -v -d" idVendor 0x0839 Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd idProduct 0x0016 bcdDevice 1.00 iManufacturer 1 Samsung Co L... 23 Apr 2010 20:34

Multicore execution
Hi, is there a tool, saying like lsof, to know wich core is executing a program ? Thanks ... 17 Apr 2010 08:33

great KDE4 features
My home dir is on a nfs mount. I know, it is an extremely stupid and old fashioned setup, and apparently not compatible with kde4. Every time I start kde it complains about two out of three missing sound-cards. Strangely on the different pc's different sound-cards are missing. If someone knows how to kill the p... 15 Apr 2010 19:11

Slackware 12.2 and cheops
Hi all!! I have a little problem with cheops in my slackware box... I download the source code from their site and when im ./configure it returns me back this error for GTK checking for gtk-config... (cached) /usr/bin/gtk-config checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no *** Could not run GTK test program, c... 23 Apr 2010 20:34

iptables LOG not in syslog - SOLVED!
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Eef Hartman wrote: William Hunt <wjh(a)prv8.net> wrote: Linux version 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.028stab066.10 (root(a)rhel5-64-build) As you can see that is a reasonably (though some patches out-of-date) recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux (cq CentOS) 5.4 kernel (current version [...] SOLVED! ... 13 Apr 2010 13:54

Alt.OS.Linux.Slackware FAQ pointer
Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3.1 (Perl 5.010) Archive-name: aolsfaq Current-maintainer: aolsfaq-maintainer(a)therockgarden.ca FAQ last updated: Fri Dec 4 01:11:57 EST 2009 This is a periodic pointer to the Frequently-Asked Questions list (FAQ) for the alt.os.linux.slackware newsgroup. The FAQ which may be frequent... 13 Apr 2010 03:59