Laptop with Slackware - Sound and Mouse
 

I have a Gateway 4520 GZ laptop. I installed Slackware 10 last night, and got KDE working great. The only two problems I am having are sound and my touchpad mouse. I looked in another topic about the mouse, and the solution sounded like it would be to change the input device to ps/2, I did that, and it still won't work. My usb mouse works just fine still, but nothing I do will let me use my touchpad mouse.


Here are the specs for my laptop: http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/...3727sp56.shtml

I appreciate all the help I get from these forums. :D


Edit: Also, without making a new topic for it. How do get something to show how much battery power I have left?

congratulations on choosing slackware.

for the mouse, try looking at this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/212633 i hope it's not the one you've already looked at.

for the battery meter, it depends on the desktop environment. since you're using kde: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kbatt/

I give up for now. I tried what that topic said, and KDE won't start, and now I can't even run xf86config, so I don't know what the hell happened. :( Anyways, thanks for trying to help. The only distro that works, mostly, is suse, and I really do not like suse. Even then, suse didn't even get sound working right from the start. I can't even get Debian to start kde, which I wish I could, since it's my favorite distro. If someone can give me some magical solution, then great, but at the moment I'm sick of messing with linux on this laptop. Though in a couple days, I'll probably just try again. :p

wait! don't give up on slackware just yet....
[by the way, that's a tilde ~ not a line after xorg.conf on the last line]
and that'll probably get you back up with KDE.

try tweaking what the solution in the other thread said and you'll eventually get it to work. trial and error....

don't just settle on a distro you don't like. why exactly didn't KDE start in Debian?

in slackware 10 they changed it to xorgconfig but the interface is exactly the same as xf86config.

i rather use xorgsetup or xorgcfg (autoconfigures X.org for your hardware) because xorgconfig sucks for me.

wow I'm a moron, I forgot it was xorgconfig instead of xf86config. I was just so mad at that moment, I forgot. Anyways, right now I don't have the time or patience to install linux, with college and whatnot. Rest assured that in the future I will try again. Thanks for the help though.