Ok, well this is my first venture into the world of linux and/or unix systems. Basically I went with slackware on a friends recomendation and so far it's been good. The OS boots great and I get to the command prompt fine. I've created a user for myself, and it's all good.

or atleast it was.

Basically I'm trying to get the damned thing to boot with KDE, but it refuses. I've searched and searched and got nothing.

First I editied the inittab file, as well as the other mentioned in the faq, nothing boots.

I used xwmconfig, then startx, but it says startx is a bad command.

I then figured, alright we'll try this. I went into that second file we're told to edit in teh faq, basically a bunch of if/then statements to choose the GUI. Well I tried to run the then statement, figuring maybey I could ghetto launch it. Well that was slightly better, I atleast got an error of substance:

Error while loading libraries: libcll.so.6: Cannot open shared object: file: No such file or directory.

Ok well that's interesting. It then proceeded to kick me back to login.

Something else of interest, (i'm using LILO to boot). Every time I boot it finds something wrond with my hda1 partition:

hda1 was not cleanly unmounted: forced check

then it does it's whole check thing and reboots.

then it goes through it with hda3, reboots and i get to login.

Umm...any help would be appreciated, I'm kind of strapped for time. I'm using the campuses lab computers, so I can't sit here for too long, that'll teach me to test things on my rooms only operational comp...hehe.

Also being that this is a lab computer, I have only access to my pen drive, and possible a floppy drive (there's only 2). So as far as re-doing my iso's or anything, i'm kinda screwed there, hopeflly that isn't the problem.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Reinstall your OS.
your libraries dependencies,are totally broken.

What filesystem are you using? Does it works if you startx instead of trying to start in runlevel 4? (Maybe you got startx is not a valid command when you used su, you should use su - instead that will load the enviroment vars).

W00t I got it.

indeed I needed to reinstall my OS. What I think it was, was that i took too much on myself and did the custom package installation, going through each one.

Boy I never felt dumber lol

I redid my partitions and everything and full installed.

THe only guff I have right now is I still need to configure my mouse correctly (no mouse wheel support yet.

Other then that this seems great. The KDE GUI is very, very welcoming I love it. The fact that I'm posting on this forum not even 30 minutes after I started the re-install is a testament to how great this OS is.

If you guys could answer a few questions, I know this thread is dead but for anyone taht stumbles onto it.

How do i change my resolution? Also can anyone recommend a program to use to get my hotmail mail in the KDE mail client (I used hotmail popper in windows to get it into thunderbird). Also does anyone recommend changing any settings or any programs? Should I keep the default komander browser or replace it with something like mozilla?

Also my campass uses a program or a network called direct connect. The program I sued was called DC++. Is there a linux equivalent to that program?

Thanks in advance.

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Find the line for your mouse and make it say "IMPS/2". That'll get the wheel going.

To change the resolution also edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, find lines that says something like Modes "800x600" "640x480" and edit them to suit your needs. Ie: Modes: "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
There are Direct Connect clients for linux, I google a little and found this two: http://www.softservice.com.pl/ldcc/ and http://dcgui.berlios.de/index.php
But i'm sure there are more

Yea I've found clients, and thanks a lot for the mouse thing....just a quick question if you're still here:

# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "Mouse2"
# Driver "mouse"
# Option "Protocol" "MouseMan"
# Option "Device" "/dev/mouse2"
# EndSection


which part do I edit exactly?

thanks for the resolution thing, i'll try that next.

Just gotta get used to compiling programs now..lol

Edit: I have the resolutions up to 1280, but does that mean I'm using that resolution? because it listed the others as well.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse2"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

It seems you've to mouses, am i right?

To see which resolution you're running, run xdpyinfo

hey thanks, i'm in 1024. The other file lists up to 1280 as one of my modes...but in KDE it wouldn't let me go above 1024....got any suggestions?

I guess I do have 2 mouses...but really I have one, should I remove an entry?

If that works, don't remove it

Check if there are a Modes line that you haven't edited because there's one for each Depth (8,16,24,32).
Also be sure that the Horizontal and Vertical Syncs are right.

ok lets see if I can do this, first here's what's in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

And this is what I see in my properties:

http://users.rowan.edu/~reyesc86/images/snapshot1.png

So basically, it's saying 12870 in one place and not letting me choose it. Sorry if this frustrates u guys but I'm clueless...lol

Well i've never used KDE panel to change resolution so i can't help you there. Did you restart the X server after changing the settings? The config file seems ok

I didn't even change teh config, that's how it was.

What's another way to change the resolution?

If it doesn't go to 1280 then it's a problem with the refresh rate, find those values and change them according to the ones your monitor use.