A few questions on 9.1
Hi All,
I'm a newbie on this forum, and never worked with Slackware. I worked with Redhat and Suse before but I thought it was time to get a real distro :) Installation was painless. And my first impressions are good. It is fast. But I have a few questions. I change the boot from init 3 to init 5. But I didn't find a shutdown/reboot option on the login screen. I tried it to configure under KDE loginscreen options but that didn't had any affect. Anybody knows how I can add this option to this screen? Second question, I have a USB Zyxel 630-11 modem (yeah, I know I should get something else but for the moment I'm stuck with it). I already downloaded the drivers from url=sourceforge.net/projects/zyxel630-11 but I have a problem installing it. I don't have liblinux-atm1, I found on at rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/cooker/contrib/ppc/liblinux-atm1-2.4.0-2mdk.ppc but that one is for mandrake. Anybody installed this modem already on Slackware? How did you do it? Can I just install this Mandrake RPM? Will RPM2TGZ work with it. Third question. I have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, I followed the instructions that are in this thread "Slack 9.0 - XFree 4.3.0 - Radeon9700pro" . No problems running X but XL_Gears doesn't work. Error message can't read fbconfig Do I need to create a new agpgart module via fglrxconfig or is the default one of Slackware 9.1 enough? Sorry for asking so much questions but I have to dual boot to windows for posting, so I ask it all in one go. :cry: Thanks in advance for any help! Sorry for the URL's but I need 5 posts to configure them correctly :mad: |
I found already the tar for liblinux-atm1.
So question 2 has almost been answered :) If somebody has done it before would be great to have some install tips! |
There is a button for searh at top of the forum, just search for Radeon .. n slackware, I don't have that device, but I've seen that topic was discussed very often in here ..
For the 1st Question, I suggest u exit from KDE or wut ever WM u used properly first b4 u reboot/shutdown .. On the textmode u can do that with commandline like: # reboot or # shutdown -halt now If it is too long to type u can add this alias line to ur .bashrc alias shalt='shutdown -h now' The configuration for login screen u meant is stuff of thing like xdm, see "man xdm" for detail .. |
u can shutdown ur pc by su to root, then use
#shutdown -h now the default setup wont allow users to shutdown the system |
Thanks for the answers.
I now how to shutdown commands, but it is a bit unpractical (My girlfriend uses this machine also and she likes buttons) Will have a look at xdm Thanks for the tip |
I'm a bit further with my video card.
I installed the radeon drivers fine but modified my XF86Config and can run X now in a high resoltion. But I have still a problem with agpgart. I tried loading the module with agp_try_unsupported=1 but that fails also with the same message as modprobe agpgart. Any tips? Taken from dmesg -> Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT400 chipset agpgart: unable to determine aperture size. [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 803 MBytes. [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 3.2.5 [Aug 6 2003] on minor 0 [fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 1309 using kernel context 0 [fglrx:drm_ioremapfree] *ERROR* [mappings] Attempt to free NULL pointer doubleu@Atloony:~$ Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' doubleu@Atloony:~$ agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M -bash: agpgart:: command not found doubleu@Atloony:~$ agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT400 chipset -bash: agpgart:: command not found doubleu@Atloony:~$ agpgart: unable to determine aperture size. |
GDM Setup
As for your question about having the shutdown/reboot option on the login screen, if you're using GDM then run the following command as root:
#gdmsetup This will bring up a graphical GDM configuration screen. Click on the Security tab, then click the Show actions menu option. Close the configuration screen. The next time you log in, there should be a button on your login screen called System from which you can shutdown or reboot the computer. |
I edited /etc/rc.d/rc.4 and put the KDM window manager code before the GDM - gave me the KDM login screen I wanted.
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Thanks, Gato Azul and ehteam.
I'll have a look at GDM. linuxJaver, told about XDM but I couldn't find any info about that. Maybe GDM will bring me more luck :) |
Yes I actually wonna point u to gdm, but I forgot wut it called, btw to see the manual of xdm or gdm u do:
# man xdm or # man gdm Gdm should be better since xdm is from the earlier time .., u ll get closer to it, bcoz I bet redhat is using that if u configured to have graphical login screen .. Try also wut etheam said might bring u to further step .. |
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