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SOme of you might have already read my previous Debian posts. Well after numerous tries i still couldn't get X to work. I gave slackware 8.1 a try. After the installation i ran xf86config once and it worked beautifully.
Compared to the Debian ISO i downloaded, slackware's one has a lot more UPDATED packages included. It came with KDE3.0.1 as well. I installed that but was a little unhappy about the number of apps that got installed as well. I chose no to install Netscapee during the installation but i found it in KDE's menu.
Any i've got a sound problem. WHen KDE started up i got the message:
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
I have a Creative Labs SB Live! sound card. And i don't think i have loaded the right module. WHat should i do?
Another question is that how can i remove KDE completely? I plan to install blackbox soon, so i want to remove anything that i don't use. How? And i also want to remove the packages that came with KDE 3.0.
1) Slack doesn't configure sound for you, but just about everything else these days:
modprobe emu10k1
dmesg
If your soundcard is at the end of dmesg, then that's cool.
chmod 666 /dev/dsp
chmod 666 /dev/mixer
To have the module loaded every time. Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and un-comment, or simple add the line:
/sbin/modprobe emu10k1
2) pkgtool, With that you can remove KDE by the chunks. There are quite a few and I recommend leaving in QT as quite a few packages you may want to install after that are based on it.
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