Slackware

Supressing kernel keyboard error messages
I use an RS232 link to connect to my Slack 10 box. I rerouted lilo messages and kernel stuff to S0. This works fine. My problem is, that the kernel, during booting is looking for a 8042 keyboard controller which isn't there. This causes a flood of error messages (all identical) and large time outs (30-60sec!), a... 20 Jun 2008 04:03

Thanks To All
I'd like to thank you all for the help you've given me over the last few months. It has been invaluable. Tom Newton ... 19 Jun 2008 20:54

plugging in usb kills system
notbob wrote: Triggering udev events: /sbin/udevtrigger --retry-failed I can't help but wondering if this is the origin of my problem. hardly. --retry-failed is just an option passed to udevtrigger, there's nothing to worry about it. see man udevtrigger and /etc/rc.d/rc.udev for details. -- Joost... 22 Jun 2008 11:11

Installation
I have an old laptop I am running Slack 10.2 on. There is nothing that needs to be saved. The DVD drive is gettng very flakey so I do not want to risk a fresh install of Slack 12.1 from disk. I can often get to the lilo menu and from the 10.2 CD (wont read DVDs at all anymore). My question is, if I boot from Slack ... 20 Jun 2008 14:18

Firefox 3 empty applicatins preferences
Hi, just installed firefox 3 from current and found that the new "Applications" tab in "Preferences" is empty, so no change of applications preferences is possible. Apparently the panel is empty because there is a dependency to gnome-vfs. Can anybody confirm this? TIA Joerg -- For email use g m x d o t... 24 Jun 2008 10:14

memory
Slackware 12.1 Dell Dimension E521. 2.5 gigs memory installed, which runs down to 207 megs at present. (free -m) However, (free -tm) gives 2295 being free. What gives? -- Greymaus . . .... ... 19 Jun 2008 16:48

Slackware setup-Nic
Hallo, lucas, Du meintest am 18.06.08: I'm trying to install Slack12 on my laptop. I used lspci with the linux that's on there already to get the NIC name: 3c505. That may be wrong. The 3c505 is an ISA card, the driver is more than 12 years old. Take a Knoppix CD, boot the laptop with it, look pe... 19 Jun 2008 19:53

libsndfile
For some reason http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ doesn't resolve for me right now. Could someone please mail it to me or something? -- If you cannot convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S Truman www.websterscafe.com ... 19 Jun 2008 01:12

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Slackware 12.1 on a Compaq Presario R3000
The Compaq Presario R3000 (Intel) The ATI Radeon 9100 Mobility graphics card works very well for being ATI and supports full 3d acceleration. The volume buttons work like a champ after I set them up in .Xmodmap Nearly everything seems to work well. The few problems I have had were: The IBM Hitachi 60G... 19 Jun 2008 01:12