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Hey guys,
I'm new to Slackware, but the problems start with the installation.
I think i've installed everything fine but i have two major problems
If i use startx the screen gets stuck with the loaded harddrive icon.
The second thing is i can't handle the slackpkg thing. He says i have to choose a mirror, but if i type /etc/slackpkg/mirrors as root user i get that the Permission is denied.
So what i've done wrong
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Overpossum
Hey guys,
I'm new to Slackware, but the problems start with the installation.
I think i've installed everything fine but i have two major problems
If i use startx the screen gets stuck with the loaded harddrive icon.
The second thing is i can't handle the slackpkg thing. He says i have to choose a mirror, but if i type /etc/slackpkg/mirrors as root user i get that the Permission is denied.
So what i've done wrong
You need to open the text file with an editor and uncomment (remove the #) the mirror to which you wish to connect and save your changes.
welcome to this forum and sorry for Emerson's answer, which could have been worded in a more positive way.
About "startx" and the screen that gets stuck, to help us investigate please type as root the following command and post the output here:
Code:
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Also, when you wrote "I think i've installed everything fine" I assume that you meant "I have done a full installation, with all series of packages (but maybe kdei) checked". Is that right?
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 04-24-2016 at 05:09 PM.
Hey thanks for your anwers,
I'm used to the old DOS console where in fact you can execute a text file. So sorry i'm quite nex to linux.
If i try the "grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log" command just nothing happens.
You can't execute a text file (unless it is a shell script with the execute permission). You need to open it in a text editor like nano.
Code:
nano /etc/slackpkg/mirrors
Uncomment (remove the hashtag) a mirror (make sure it matches with your Slackware (or Slackware64) version (if you uncomment a -current mirror when you installed 14.1, you'll probably run into issues). Then press Ctrl+O to save or "Output" the file, then Ctrl+X to exit the program.
Since the grep command didn't work, what about the following? It will output the last 100 lines of the log. Just paste that output within [code][/code] tags to make it easier to read.
So i get the thing with the mirrors, but i think it is a basic problem with my network connection. Is there more to configure than netconfig? So its a wired connection can i control if the system was able to get the driver somewhere?
This command results in no output, too. I don't know what i have probably done wrong. I even did a complete reinstall. The same
If there's no network, we need to see first if your network card is detected and the module loaded.
Code:
lspci -k | grep -iA3 net
Also, give us the output of
Code:
ifconfig
Finally, for the startx issue, we'd still need the Xorg.0.log file that I requested earlier. Since you don't have network access, the easiest way would be to redirect the output of those commands to a file, then copy that file to a USB drive and then access it on a computer that has internet access and copy and paste the results to here.
The fact that these devices are not known tells me this is a newer laptop that doesn't have complete hardware support with the default 14.1 kernel (which is over 2 years old). Without installing a newer kernel or switching to -current (or waiting until it is released as 14.2 -- probably within a few weeks), you won't have support for your network or audio (and probably no 3D acceleration in the desktop either).
I'm not sure why it failed with KDE but succeeded with XFCE, but if I had to guess, I'd imagine it is because of the probable lack of support for your video card with the old kernel.
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