Hey I am new in Slackware (using 13.1), and I like this linux distribution more than the others that i have used, because is more stable for my work. But there are some little problems that I can´t solve.

I'm using it with a laptop HP G60 and i can run OpenOffice, Mozilla and some other programs (python, grass, qgis) that used for work at the office, but when I go home and want to watch a movie with my girl, listen some music or any other simple task, i find a lot of little problems:

1. Adjust the bright of the screen, the Power Management Guidance don't do it and I really need it.

2. Can't play movies in VLC "No suitable decoder module. VLC does not support the audio or video format XVID. Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this"

3. And today I can't play music because there is a message "KDE detected that one or more internal sound devices were removed" this is: Output HDA Intel, INTEL HDMI 0 (HDMI Audio Output)

I know maybe these problems are stupid but in windows is easier to fix them. I'm tired of search in google because i just find solved problems for Ubuntu and it takes a lot of time, i'm working right now. Can anybody please tell me if there is a manual or something information that i need to read to fix this stuff?

I will appreciate your help!!

Where did you get your VLC?

Eric

1) Not Familiar enough to help sorry.

2) what VLC package are you using? You should use Alien Bob's VLC slackbuild.
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/pe...ackbuilds/vlc/

3) Does your laptop by chance have a laptop and a microphone?

I get VLC from slackbuilds site, and i'm downloading the pakages for alien. And yeah my laptop have a microphone.

What may have happened to your sound is that your microphone has now taken over the primary alsa soundcard slot (slot 0) and your actual soundcard has been moved to slot 1. You need to make your soundcard slot 0 and your microphone slot 1. See this post for more information. This may not be the problem, but its worth looking into.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...device-713793/

Thanks for your help but recently I get Slackware 13.37 an it works 100 %.