Hey,
Right, I'm running a 800mhz P3 Coppermine, 256 PC 100 100mhz mem, ATi Fury Maxx 64mb Graphics Card, 1.44mb 3.5 Floppy, DVDROM Drive IDE (no brand), Sony CRX120E-C CD Writer, Sound Blaster 1024 Live! Value PCI Sound, Diamond Supra Express 56i Pro, 56k Externel, and Linux Slackware 8.0 and MS Win 98, dual boot off the MBR.
Problem: 1.44mb, DVD, CD-R, Sound Card, 56k Internal, not recogniesed in Slackware, MS can seem to pick it all up!?

WHY?!?!

Is it the XF86 Server that is not up-to-date?
Help me please.
Thanks in advance.

As I understand you are unpolished green newbie to the whole Linux stuff (no offense intended), correction 1 - none of the listed items are pertaining XFree86; suggestion 1 - try a different distribution, b/c I feel you, us and slackware is going to be a hand-holding experience (again no offense); suggestion 2 - get at least a linux book, and start reading about linux; suggestion 3 - http://www.linmodems.org is the place to see if your modem will ever run under linux; search here or google regarding ide-scsi emulation (for CD-R/RW), and list go on. as for sound card best place to find answer is here using search button, floppy - this one is odd to say the least - how did you conclude it wasn't recognized? same for DVD, are you trying to watch the movies or what???

Hrmm...

There is no /dev/fd0, or mnt/fd0.

There IS a /cdrom, but it doesn't seem to collerate with the DVD or CD-RW, it's just a dir.
About being new at Linux, yes I am, but I fail to see the HUGE differentiation between distros, I've tried Mandrake, Slack, and Debian and FBSD, and I prefer Slack. Is that OK? :P

I don't quite understand where all of the configuration compatability is, if it's not within XF86, is it within the actual kernel?

Regards.

Um...

Some distros do all the dirty work for you, slack doesn't. You will need to setup the mount points for your devices. You will need to create the /etc/fstab file to mount these devices. You will need to locate and setup the devices. You will need to configure your own X server. X has nothing to do with hardware recognition. X is simply a gui, nothing more (for ease of explanation).

The nice thing about all of this, you learn as you go, and you know EXACTLY what you have and don't have.

If you prefer all these things setup for you, well Mandrake does a great job.

For now, simply accept that you have nothing setup already. You will need to create a mount point for your floppy. Let's make one in /mnt/floppy

Now apparently you even need to run MAKEDEV, get it from here:
ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-p...AKEDEV-1.7.bz2
Bunzip it with:
tar xvjf MAKEDEV-1.7.bz2

And now mv the file which was unpacked to /dev and run it:
./MAKEDEV -v generic

This should create the necessary devices for you. From there you can mount a floppy with:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

This is just a bit to get your started, you definitely need a book. I suggest lookin at:
http://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/s...Snyqf&mv_pc=17

It's Slackware Essentials from Slackware.

Cool

Hey,
Thanks for that, one error :P

The MAKEDEV ran like clockwork,

root@darkster:~/makedev# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
root@darkstar:~/makedev#

I created a /mnt/floppy after I saw this, thought maybe I hadn't followed instructions per se', still the same result.

Thankyou for the time you've spent doing this for me.

Was there actually a floppy (formatted with fat32) in the floppy drive?

Also, try this:
ls -l /dev/fd0

Does it return anything?

Does your floppy drive work, or has it worked elsewhere recently?

You're welcome, if you want I'll be happy to give you a "boost", however you will receive the most value/help from the book I mentioned above or something similar. Alot of concepts that seem "normal" aren't going to be. Eventually you could work out the kinks by just playing around, however sometimes it puts a sour taste of "linux" in your mouth.

Cool