Slackware

If Linux is a protected-memory OS...
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2009-09-01, ~kurt <actinouranium(a)earthlink.net> wrote: The claim is also that you want to use the random number generator when prep'ing an encrypted hard drive so whoever is trying to decrypt it won't know where the data starts. I'd think one would be able ... 4 Sep 2009 00:00

Slack on a Samsung NC10 netbook?
Am thinking of purcahsing one of these...has anyone any experience getting Slack on one? Larry -- For direct email remove fake. ... 26 Dec 2008 08:46

Broken links libMagick in 12.2
Does anybody know what happens with libMagick(++)? It seems libMagick is completly missing and the numbering of libMagick++ and libMagickWand seems odd. In 12.1 it was libMagick++.so.10.0.9 and now it is libMagick++.so.1.0.0. TIA Joerg -- For email use g m x d o t n e t ... 22 Dec 2008 14:39

Anybody have garmintools working?
I am running Slack 12.1 and am trying to get garmintools 0.9 to run. It makes OK, but when I run garmin_get_info it doesn't see the device. I can't access ttyUSB0 either. I have tried enabling every USB option that I could think might affect the problem, but no. Any ideas? Thanks. ... 24 Dec 2008 04:16

failing dhcpcd on wireless, slack 12.0
I have been given a 5 year old Acer Aspire 1355LCi laptop and have loaded Slack 12.0. Most stuff works fine except wireless and suspend to RAM. In fact, most of the wireless system works except getting a dhcp IP address. So I need some help. Here is the wireless info: - wireless chip is RTL8180 and I'm using ndis... 11 Dec 2008 19:41

Highpoint's RocketRAID 174x
I am trying to get a RocketRAID 1740 working on a slackware 12.1 installation. I upgraded the BIOS to v2.0, Installed the server/ daemon driver rpms without any problems, and compiled the driver. When I modprobe the rr174x driver and start the server/daemon, it will see the card, which in turn sees the scsi driv... 30 Sep 2008 14:33

Trying to get wireless to work on my laptop
I bought a Dell D600 laptop and it came with no wireless card. I bought a Belkin F5D6020 ver.2 PCMCIA card. I am trying to make it work in Slackware 12. I tried downloading the driver file for it but was unable to find it. I find that with the card plugged in it lights up both lights. I think this means it is... 28 Jun 2008 04:31

sound problem in 12.1
hi The sound works fine in audacious, amarok etc... but not in tv capturing applications. I have a leadtek tv2000 expert tv card. The sound is connected to the cd input on the motherboard. The sound card is Realtek ALC888. tvtime says: mixer: Can't open device /dev/mixer, mixer volume and mute unavailable. ... 24 Jun 2008 19:32

Slackware 12.0 on 64 MB
Hi all I just tried my luck on an old P-II, 233 MHz, 64 MB laptop. Booting huge.s I could finish the installation. But I can't start the installation. It gives no file system could mount root, tried: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,2) Am I correct in assuming t... 2 Feb 2008 08:00

Web Cam
Hi, I am trying to set up a Creative Web Cam PD1050 to work on my Slackware 11.0 system. Can anyone point me to information on how to do this? Or maybe someone else has already used this Cam and knows how to set it up? I have used a PD1030 with no problem but the PD1050 will not work with the current driver ... 12 Jan 2008 15:55