Just installed slackware again. The first time I just got sick of all the problems I was having, but I felt like trying it again. I have some old questions I've asked before, that never got solved with my other topics, and also new ones.

1.) My mouse's scroll wheel won't work. It's an optical Microsoft mouse.
2.) In KDE, XMMS freezes, but it works fine in Gnome, and anything else I try it in.
3.) Neither of my cd-rom drives are being recognized, even though I was able to use a cd to install Slackware.
4.) Not really a problem, just a question. I know there's something in Gentoo to take care of dependency problems, though I don't remember the name of it. Is there something like this in Slackware?

1. search the forum. that question's been asked a zillion and one times. you have to modify your XF86Config file.
2. use another player in KDE, or try compiling XMMS from source. maybe there's a problem with the precompiled binary on your system.
3. could you be more specific? posting the relevant portion of /etc/fstab might help.
4. not really, but it depends on what you use to install software. swaret will check for dependencies, and not sure but maybe slapt-get will, too. the slackware package installer won't, so with that you are on your own.

1) Look in your XF86Config and in the mouse section add Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5". you might also check the driver (IMPS/2 is what you want I think).)
2) try running it from konsole and see it you get any errors that might tell you what's happening.
3) what do you mean by "recognized"?
4) Here's a link that explains the Slackware package manager. This may or may not answer your question, but it should get you started......

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0


I have two cdrom drives, one is a writer. When I put a cd in, it doesn't show any files. I go to /mnt/cdrom and nothing is there.

Very common question, use the search ;)

In KDE, switch xmms' output plugin to arts

What exactly does that mean? How did you try
to verify they're working? Are they listed in
/etc/fstab?

No.



Cheers,
Tink

(edit: I'll just use search, since I'm going to be told that anyways -_-)

Okay, I got xmms working in kde, and also got scrolling working. Now the only problem is my cdrom drives =D Thanks for the help so far.

unless it's an audio CD, you have to mount it yourself first (edit, as root):

# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

where hdc is your cdrom. then ls /mnt/cdrom and the files should be there.

Did you mount the drive before looking for the contents of the CD?
One thing to remember about Slackware, by default, users won't be able to mount/umount the drives. to change this, edit your /etc/fstab to read
hope that helps

Thank's for trying, but it didn't work

try then, mounting manually as root from the command line before bothering about the fstab

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

or

with /dev/hdd, try both dev's with a data cd in the drive like the slackware one - not a music one.

dmesg will show you exactly which device each of your drives is.

For example (from mine):

Then try mounting as Lost stated above.

Well I got one of my cdrom drives working by turning noauto into auto. For now, I can deal with just one of them, since I'm not going to burn any cd's in Linux.

Thank you for all your help, this board is always very helpful to my