Slackware

Amarok (Doesn't)
So, is there a trick to get Amarok to play a cd? The intuitive things don't work. Or should I junk it and just use XMMS. John. -- Using the White Box. ... 8 Jun 2010 19:28

info about slackware project
Hi, where can I found information about slackware project. The information that I 'm looking for is the kind of : - number of colaborators - number of code lines - project direction structure , etc.... thanks ... 2 Jun 2010 15:20

traceroute
FYI: Sometime, a long time ago, my traceroute stopped working. I only got * for every step. Recently I found a need for traceroute and looked online to find a fix. I found suggestions, but no fix. After a little experimenting I find that traceroute works as before if you use the -I option. You can alias tracero... 2 Jun 2010 03:19

Broken KDE 3.3 Advanced Text Editor "kate"
Off topice I know some one on this group knows the answer. When I try to load "kate" it will not load get message: KDEInit could not launch :"kata" from CLI get: joeking(a)linux:~> kate kate: symbol lookup error: /opt/kde3/lib/libkmdi.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN7QWidget26setPaletteBackgroundPixmE� joeking... 1 Jun 2010 18:36

losing user password
On Jun 1, 1:10 am, Hel...(a)Hullen.de (Helmut Hullen) wrote: Hallo, Danno, Du meintest am 31.05.10: Danno wrote: <snip> then change the password? passwd Sorry, didn't realize passwd would prompt for the old password first. But he is already logged in as root. Then h... 1 Jun 2010 13:03

Sound Problem
I have installed 13.1 on a 24 inch iMac. I am not having any luck getting sound from my internal speakers. Most programs act like they think sound is playing. In xmms, I see the visualization stuff like it is playing. Just nothing audible. I hear nothing in Flash. In KDE, I hit the test button in the Control Ce... 3 Jun 2010 12:14

losing user password
I have been running Slack64-13.0 for the past two months. I boot from a flashdrive to my installation on a removable harddrive. Everything ok up to now. But now all of a sudden it won't let me log in as user 'steve', claiming my password is invalid. It still lets me log in as 'root'. I've been able to get... 2 Jun 2010 05:27

call for kde 4.5 beta1 packages
HEh if anyone has build up that, and it is in usable state, please post it and give a link. Thanks in advance Thomas. ... 31 May 2010 14:09

dnsmasq sanity check?
I've got WWW on eth0, and machines on my LAN (eth1) being forwarded through a single machine. I've been using static addresses so far, but dnsmasq looks like a better way to do this, plus it also looks like I can restrict things to specific machines based on their MAC address too. So, working from the man ... 31 May 2010 13:02

13.1 and processor sleep states
Hi, This is a heads-up for anyone using Slackware 13.1 with an Atom and possibly a Core 2 processor. 13.1 works fine on my computer with a Pentium processor, but on my netbook with an Atom N270 processor I get odd effects from the generic 2.6.33.4 x86 kernel during boot-up. The processor appears to enter low ... 1 Jun 2010 10:49