Installing Gnome after initial installation
 

Hi,

I'm now running slackware 8.1 with blackbox. If i now want to install Gnome how can i do iT? Since i skipped installing Gnome during the slackware installation.

Thanks

To install the gnome simply mount the CD(if you are installing from the CD) or the partition from your hard disk then there is an executable file their which is install-package you execute it and then it will show you the package that you need to install. Simply mark X the package that you want to install or unmark if you don't want it to be installed.

Install-package of slackware cdrom or gnome?

I installed RH7.2 with kde & gnome. Afterwards I downloaded and installed blackbox & other window managers but they do not appear in login sreen menu where I select between kde/gnome.How can the new windows managers be added to log in screen drop down menu in REd Hat 7.2.

This clearly should have been started in its own thread.. has nothing to do with Nutshell's question.

Can anyone answer my question? WHich CD?

Of course in slackware's CD, where you will find a GNOME series that contains the packages for gnome.

I installed it using pkgtool. When i type gnome-session in the command-line, it says: GTk warning: can't open display

I tried running gnome-session in xterm in blackbox the splash screen showed up but then it keeps saying "/dev/dsp no such device" and stopped. I had to ctrl+C to end it.

What do i put in .xinitrc to start gnome when i type startx?

Oh wait i got it to work. I typed "exec gnome-session" in my .xinitrc.

But it still says /dev/dsp not found no such device. But i really want my sound and i';m sure my sound card is supported...Creative SB Live!

Yeah, your sound IS supported. make sure it's in your kernel, if not module it in, and then add it to modules.conf

yea i modprobed emu10k1 but still no sound. Here's the output for lsmod:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
emu10k1 55680 0
sound 52876 0 [emu10k1]
ac97_codec 9568 0 [emu10k1]
soundcore 3236 7 [emu10k1 sound]
parport_pc 14404 1 (autoclean)
lp 6368 1 (autoclean)
parport 21664 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
pcmcia_core 40896 0
ide-scsi 7456 0
8139too 13792 1
mii 1008 0 [8139too]

make sure you have permissions on /dev/dsp and /dev/audio

I chmod 777 to /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, /dev/mixer and still no sound....

Hmm, I just did a little digging, you may want to check out this post or this one, scroll about halfway down, finegan is mentioning something about sndconfig.

I'm not using Red Hat i don't have sndconfig. I read through every post on your links also.

Damn, I was hoping by now someone who knew what the hell they were doing would come along and help ya. What happens when you try to play something with a media player? Like an MP3 with XMMS?

Hi there,, this is how I install Gnome on Slackware 8.1

1. Mount the Slack 8.1 cd
2. go into the /mnt/cdrom/slackware/gnome directory
3. run (as root) pkgtool, and select install packages from current directory.
4. select the packages you want to install
5. after the install there should be a file called xinitrc.gnome in /etc/X11/xinit (remember that dir). So just do this (as a normal user, not root).
cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome ~/.xinitrc
6. startx will start gnome now ;)
7. Voila!

For the Sound, just do the following (as root)
chown root:users /dev/dsp
chown root:users /dev/mixer
chmod 770 /dev/dsp
chmod 770 /dev/mixer
and VOILA!

Good Luck!
RefriedBean

Sound still doesn't work tried your method.

For GNOME i got it installed . But im having problems wif Nautilus. SO right now it's very inconvenient. I also don't have any icons on my desktop because of Nautilus. You can see my problem in the other thread named "Nautilus error".

A well, any other ideas for me sound ? ^_^

Thanks very much

Hi there!
Please try the following as root.
yes > /dev/dsp
That should produce a loud beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
To kill that off press Ctrl+C

If you hear the beep, then your sound your sound works :)
If you don't, try doing
yes > /dev/dsp0
or
yes > /dev/dsp1
if that works, just make a symlink to /dev/dsp from the device that beeped (ln -sf /dev/dspX /dev/dsp).

I find it very strange that the commands I listed above does not work for you, I've always did it like that since Slack 7.1. Have you tried loggin in and out? Sometimes that helps. If it still gives you permission errors, do the following (as root)
chmod 666 /dev/dsp
chmod 666 /dev/mixer
chmod 666 /dev/audio
That should do the trick :)

As for the nautilus error, try installing the following app from the slackware 8.1 cd.
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/slackware/ap/cdparanoia-IIIalpha9.8-i386-1.tgz
It should help.
Remember, don't run gnome and nautilus right after installing that packages,, try running ldconfig (as root) first, and the log out, and back in (not in the X terminal, I mean COMPLETELY out and back in ;) )

Good Luck
RefriedBean

HI RefriedBean!

I got Nautilus to work! Now i've got my proper desktop setup ^_^ finally...

BUt why don't the documentation state the use of ldconfig? DOes the install package assume that the OS itself will update the libraries bindings or what?

Unfortunately i can't seem to get my sound working.I tried your method. Before startx i loaded up the module emu10k1 and when gnome starts GMIX 3.0 popped up showing model of my sound card.

But thanks again for getting Nautilus to work...

http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/dsp_devfsd.txt

Don't know if that will help, but you can give it a shot.