I tried installing Slackware 9.0 from the distributed .iso on one of the mirrors. Upon getting to the 'Boot:' prompt I proceeded to just press the enter key, the default kernel in 8.1 worked fine with my hardware so I figured this would... as I don't have any RAID or SCSI stuff.

It went through several messages too fast for me to write them all down, before it reached the 'Slackware:' prompt, for root. Just above this though were several error messages (or atleast the end of them, scrolled too fast to be able to see them all in detail). My keyboard wasn't working? It's a standard Logitech USB Keyboard. The messages were to do with usb-hci (or something like that) and mentioned turning off (different wording) the usb hub's.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? If so have you found a work around? (I tried plugging the Keyboard into PS/2, but would rather not as if the usb controller/driver is faulty at the start there are no garauntee's it's going to work later on)

Also does anyone know if the Geforce 4 drivers works? I tried xfree86setup and let it detect stuff, but it wouldn't start X.

So that's too things...

1: USB won't work
2: X won't load with my Geforce 4 ti4600

I have a test box with Slack 9.0 installed. It is a VIA chipset with a Socket 370 CPU. I attached my Logitech USB keyboard and it worked fine with both the install CD boot and the installed system. The USB ports use the usb-uhci hub drivers and keyboard device driver. It was detected and worked fine.

On your video card, I suspect that the special drivers will need to be installed for the best performance. However, to start with, the VESA mode would provide sufficient capabilities until they are installed. Copy the /etc/X11/XF86Config-vesa file to /etc/X11/XF86Config and then startx to load the X system.

I posted a similar problem over at justlinux, but haven't seen a solution yet, only posted just a little while ago:

slackware 9.0 - not happy with usb keyboard

I went to a local computer store today and, as I was walking down an aisle, a slackware 9.0, 4 CD set, jumped off the shelf and attached itself to my hand. I couldn't shake it off so I was forced to buy it, 'cause there it was, in my hand, which knows about my 56K challenged system.

Anyway, so I get it home and, like any good computer enthusiast, I slapped in CD-1 and rebooted knowing that everything will just happen and be fine.

And, the USB keyboard worked, and is enabled in BIOS, but after, I think it was the bare.i, kernel was loaded I got to a point where it said enter a '1' to pick a keyboard other than US (as I recall) or just hit 'Enter' to move on. At this point the keyboard is not working. The '1'doesn't work and the 'Enter' doesn't work.

I noticed as the kernel was loading that the usb-uhci (or whatever it was called) stuff scrolled by and it also said that it discovered 2 USB ports, but the keyboard is dead.

Is there a solution to this dilemma? Are there instructions about this on one of the 4 CD's, possibly, for this condition?

(Edit: Is there maybe a kernel parameter I can pass in, keeping in mind that this is the very first part of the install process, and basically nothing is installed yet, so no CLI yet, other than the root: thing on the initial install screen. Also, I am not able yet to cut and paste any errors or messages.)

I have another PS/2 keyboard I can use if I have to, but it seems the USB keyboard oughta work. But, maybe not.

/takes deep breath

thanks...

Also posted:

wait a sec... more info:

On the screen above where it wants the 1 or the Enter, in a list of stuff that scrolled up to that point, there is a bunch of USB stuff.
At one point it says:

input0: Mitsumi Electric Mitsumi USB keyboard on USB1:2.0

Then, on the very next line it says:

No USB devices found. Unloading USB subsystem...

Ok, this goes in the WTF category.

From the RELEASE_NOTES file on the slackware 9.0 cd,
Give it a try and let us know if it helped.

Well, I'm not sure I did it right, since I've never done this before.

But, when I got to the initial boot: prompt at the bottom of the screen, and following the pattern of the example there, I typed in: (except for the boot: prompt)

boot: bare.i root=/dev/hdd1 nousb

There is nothing on hda1 yet, so, and it seems I saw somewhere in the past hdd1 indicated the CD, but that's probably a problem also. I think I have that mixed up with a different issue.

However, I didn't see any USB messages after that, and, of course, the keyboard still doesn't work.

If you can tell me how to enter the 'nousb' at that boot: prompt I can try that, otherwise, in the interest of moving on, I'll just swap out keyboards with one of my windows machines.

thanks...

EDIT: Well, I KNOW I didn't do it right, actually. Also, I have CD3 in the drive, with books on it, and I didn't see any release notes. I'll have to peruse the others for that.

Edit again: OOPs, I have CD3 in a drive of another machine, not the one I'm installing slack on.

Well, I sort of feel like a goof after going back and reading my last post. I went ahead and swapped keyboards and moved on.

So much to learn.

(And, I'm a little tired from staying up late trying to catch the stupid morons who have been destroying our mailboxes out here in the country.)