A couple of nub questions

zidane2010 · 05-04-2004, 06:54 PM

hey. ive been using SuSE for quite a while now, just today i gave slackware another chance and now i got some nub questions. firstly, how can i easily add a user? im using root right now which isnt a very good thing. also, whenever i boot up into slack, i have to log in from the console and start x or kdm. how can i make KDM start automatically? my mother will be using this computer so i guess this is pretty important. also, does anyone know where i can grab some kde 3.2.2 rpms?

thanks in advance.

kerplunk322 · 05-04-2004, 07:05 PM

Edit

/etc/inittab

and change

id:3:initdefault:

to

id:4:initdefault:

Then if you want KDM instead of GDM on startup

Edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.4 file and put kdm before gdm

Hope it helps.

zidane2010 · 05-04-2004, 07:17 PM

thanks im gonna try that now.... and just to let you guys know... i discovered kuser! w00t.

i also got a USB 80GB hard drive... i went into kinfo and it is detected, but i cannot find it so i can mount it, whats going on there? works automatically in SuSE and redhat

zidane2010 · 05-04-2004, 07:25 PM

also i need to get my nvidia geforce3 ti 200 working... i installed the drivers. then it said to edit the XF86Config so i went into KDE's display editor and chose geforce3 (rev3) instead of generic VGA and still no hw accel.

im scared to run XF86Config because last time i did that in slackware i messed up everything and my crappy monitor doesnt help it

At0mic_PC · 05-04-2004, 09:05 PM

http://www.edit-the-config-by-hand-a...nfig-maker.com

And for adding a user... As soon as slackware was finished installing it told you how. Log into a cli and type mail. It will tell you how in there as well. Please don't get comfortable with things doing stuff for you.

flyfishin · 05-04-2004, 09:07 PM

Instead of actually changing a line in your XF86Config simply comment it out and add the new line. When you comment it out write down a date or time that you changed it. Then just change one or two items at a time and give it a shot. If you mess it up too bad you can always get back your original file. Also, make a copy of a working XF86Config so you can always go back to it.

As far as adding a user, use the adduser command as root. It asks all kinds of setup questions.

zidane2010 · 05-04-2004, 09:17 PM

okay i understand that i should edit the file, but the problem is i wouldnt know what to edit the parts about video card acceleration with nvidia graphics cards. i apologise if i seem annoying but ive been using ATI cards (not very happy about that) and i had SuSE on my geforce3 machine. and SuSE configured it automatically. i know i have to manually do things in slack.

flyfishin · 05-04-2004, 09:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zidane2010
okay i understand that i should edit the file, but the problem is i wouldnt know what to edit the parts about video card acceleration with nvidia graphics cards. i apologise if i seem annoying but ive been using ATI cards (not very happy about that) and i had SuSE on my geforce3 machine. and SuSE configured it automatically. i know i have to manually do things in slack.

You're not annying at all. Did you change the Driver line from "nv" to "nvidia"? That is the first step. The Nvidia readme file lists other lines to look for and change. Peruse that to see what else you might need to do. All I ever did was make the few changes they list at the top of the README. Then again, all I wanted was for tuxracer to work.

zidane2010 · 05-05-2004, 06:29 AM

thanks man... i now have 3d Acceleration!

one thing though, when i run glxgears i only get around 2400fps. in SuSE i got 3400-4200fps :S

also another small nub question, when i shut down slackware. it eventually just comes the the console and sais "Power Off" how can I get mym computer to phyisically turn off?

thanks

Kjetil4455 · 05-05-2004, 07:04 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by zidane2010
thanks man... i now have 3d Acceleration! one thing though, when i run glxgears i only get around 2400fps. in SuSE i got 3400-4200fps :S

also another small nub question, when i shut down slackware. it eventually just comes the the console and sais "Power Off" how can I get mym computer to phyisically turn off?

thanks

No, not that I know of. Why bother anyways? It's not like "super hard" to press the button, *lol*

zidane2010 · 05-05-2004, 07:17 AM

also im still trying to get my USB hard drive to work, the kernel reconizes it at boot and sets it as sda1. but how can i accually use it? if it go look at my hard ware info then USB devices it comes up there properly.

flyfishin · 05-06-2004, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by zidane2010
thanks man... i now have 3d Acceleration! one thing though, when i run glxgears i only get around 2400fps. in SuSE i got 3400-4200fps :S

also another small nub question, when i shut down slackware. it eventually just comes the the console and sais "Power Off" how can I get mym computer to phyisically turn off?

thanks

If you enable apm support then an init 0 will shut off your machine. Not sure how to do that in SuSE but in Slackware apm was compiled in my kernel so to enabled it I just uncommented the apmd section in /etc/rc.d/rc.M.

I've read somewhere that the glxgears numbers aren't entirely accurate. As long as your games work as expected just ignore the numbers from glxgears.

flyfishin · 05-06-2004, 09:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by zidane2010
also im still trying to get my USB hard drive to work, the kernel reconizes it at boot and sets it as sda1. but how can i accually use it? if it go look at my hard ware info then USB devices it comes up there properly.

The manual way is to mount it each time you want to use it.

mount /dev/sda1 /yourmountpoint

You could also add an entry to /etc/fstab to make life easier.

sueisfine · 05-06-2004, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by zidane2010
also another small nub question, when i shut down slackware. it eventually just comes the the console and sais "Power Off" how can I get mym computer to phyisically turn off?

as root load apm module to your kernel.

modprobe apm

i added the line to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.M and it loads every time i boot up.

fcaraballo · 05-06-2004, 11:20 AM

Are you using XFree86's nvidia driver? If so, XFree86 sets AGP to 1x by default. You need to change it to get better performance from your card.

Add the following under your driver.

Driver "nvidia"
Option "AGPMode" "4" <---2.4.x supports up to 4x, 2.6.x supports up to 8x

MagicMan