Here's for the mouse scroll wheel. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add/edit these bold lines:
By default you have PS/2 iirc, so add IM to it and the ZAxisMapping option.

If you stick with Slackware, you'll get great help here.

Also read Alien Bob's information and install his Slackware packages. They
have never failed me, though all the others have at one time or another.

My background is similar to markush - built my first PC in 1984,
but after maybe a year was away from comps until 1997. It was the
darkside from then until 2003. In June, 2003, I used RedHat 9.0 for
about a month (how did I not go insane?), then Debian for about three
or four months. Then Slackware starting maybe in Nov. 2003 with v9.1,
iirc. During the journey I've tried other distros just a bit, but not
long. Nothing compares to Slackware.

When Slackware gets too much "point-and-click" and "automount", and
"auto-this-that-and-the-other" where I have to tear it apart to make
it work like I want, then I'll go with LFS.

and girls ;)

Exactly, that's more like it! :)

FWIW, I spent a good chunk of a year or so, just *configuring* stuff in my Slack, fiddling around, small step after small step.

Whether this was relatively simple stuff, like learning how to edit, modify, & write simple bash scripts, like the ones that come with Slackware in /etc/rc.d; or slightly more complicated stuff: building source code into packages, or building my own kernel.

It takes a LOT of time, and a LOT of reading and searching, being new to Slack, before you can really say you're "comfortable" with it, and/or "confident" with it.

And yet still, at this point, (myself a case in point) you're still nowhere near being an 'expert', and should not expect to be so, or one is setting oneself up for disappointment.

It took me 2 or 3 days to get the GUI/KDE started after my first install <insert good-natured laughter here>! :p Once that happened, I was hooked for sure.

Best of success -- lots of folks are around to help!
Sasha

I know about the mouse scroll problem. I started with slackware 10.2 and till 11 I was using no scroll. Each time when my friends came to me they asked me: do your scroll already work on mouse? I told them: no, but my mail server does, and my web too, my samba, my router, my VPN server ...
Although the scroll is very useful thing - it is not as important to me to leave slackware. Same thing with screen settings. I still use 1027x768 and I am happy with it.

I don't know maybe there is something else what I love on slackware...;)

Several years ago I was forced to give Slackware a try. I didn't want to. I had to, because nothing else I knew would install on an old, now retired laptop, then. Amazing thing was: Install went as smooth as with SuSE Linux 6.2 (one of the best SuSE versions ever), but with a modern kernel and a great, clean, non-bloated KDE desktop.

In the meantime I've looked around every once in a while, what other distros had to offer. But: Slackware has finally conquered all my systems.

So there must be something about it... ;)

gargamel

for sure:d

yeeey my scroll now works :D thank you !!

And yeees i will stick to slack !!

I have been using GNU/Linux since 2005. I tried Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo... in each release. Yes, I'm a distro-hopper :-)

But I was scared of Slackware, until 2 weeks ago. I installed it in my computers and... I love it. It's simple, fast and very well documented.

I can say that at this moment, I am prepared to deal with Slackware: I have learnt a lot from Debian and, especially, Gentoo.

Maybe you need to try more distributions and, finally, choose which of them suits you. You will learn a lot of each one!

Good Luck!

...and in the end know, but possibly still be unable to express, what makes you come back to the real thing... ;)

gargamel

If you do like apt-get, I can highly recommend sbopkg. I just recently found this little gem. It makes compiling things so much easier. Basically it will keep a local repository of the slackbuilds.org site (houses many programs that you then download a script with a couple of files and you can then compile the program as a slackpkg).

I have been using Slackware since 10.2 and when I first installed it, I didn't have wireless for a weeks and I rebuilt my kernel probably a dozen times trying to get it. I had never rebuilt a kernel before and hadn't used linux except for 2 classes in college dealing with RedHat 7.2 and some basic set up of webserver and mysql with a basic knowledge of bash scripting.

Keep at it, remember these forums and google, and you will prevail. Then you will want to convert everyone else over to Slack.

Ok i installed this tool , it works flawless. But i have one questions, after you install packages, how do you uninstall them?

An easy way to remove packages is to use pkgtool. At a root shell prompt fire-up pkgtool. You can browse what is on your system and remove what you want.

# pkgtool

Oh yes, i forgot about pkgtool command :D thank you !

hi bller !
only 3 times?
i've installed in 2 weeks 20-25 OS.finally get lost ubuntu ant stick to slack.it's not easy but it's a good way to learn .stick on it !
bogdan

No problem, you're welcome. :)