Debianites are more likely to be rude, patronising, or condescending to new users. One in particular (no trick here to find out his identity).

vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf
check keyboard model and layout. Read documentation. Unless your keyboard model is extremely rare, it can be configured. Also check language settings in KDE control center, they might override xorg configuration, so you may want to disable KDE layout switching.

AFAIK monitor model is irrelevant as long as settings are correct.

Probably could be solved by either googling or updating kernel.

Search with google for "your_card_model linux". Better hardware support could be added in newer kernel version, especially if hardware is new.

Am I the only one who got mouse scroll working out-of-the-box on Slackware?

Unless you got kernel panic followed by a huge explosion you can't say that "nothing worked"

Anything you mentioned can be configured (Well, maybe except God and Devil.) and have article somewhere. Just search for it. Honestly I don't have the feeling that you are long time Slackware user. As I understand within month you should have developed skills for searching for with google and solving problems yourself, but I don't have the feeling that you have those skills. Complaining is not the right attitude to make things work, it also gives me impression you don't want to make things work.

If you think other distribution works better - go ahead and use it.

The reality is that I was able to solve all problems I ever had on my machine, and never had them again. I just don't understand why you can't do the same.

The rudest community I ever encountered were Mac OS users on certain forum (Not on LQ, though.). Those guys were very fanatical about their OS and literally could tear apart (attacking together, all at once) anyone they didn't like. They turned me away from Mac OS and killed all interest towards that operating system.

Mac OS is not bad OS, except that the whole hardware and software is too much overpriced (similarly to all adobe products).

I administer a Macbook that my daughter owns. I'm a huge fan of the BSDs, I have one dual boot slackware/freebsd station at home. I find OS X to be an exceptional OS.
Yeah, the mac fanboys can be a bit weird:-)

Possibly. Every month the number one hit page at my web site is Configuring xorg.conf for Mice with Scroll Wheels.

I think if you define the correct mouse driver in xorg.conf, then you don't need to add the ZAxisMapping junk. I think using the ExplorerPS/2 driver instead of IMPS/2 might do it -- though I haven't tested it (I'm happily using IMPS/2 after adding the ZAxisMapping garbage quite a while ago when I first installed 12.0 -- so long ago that I barely remember doing it. I wrote it down in my logs somewhere, which are barely maintained, unfortunately).

Woodsman, I didn't realize you ran the humanreadable site. That's one of the main pages I go to for setting up a new box. I should have it memorized by now.

This is weird. I am sure that I didn't have any problem with scroll. I don't remember how exactly I configured it, but I'm absolutely, 100% sure there were never any problems with wheel. And my xorg.conf doesn't even contain number of mouse buttons (wheel works just fine):

Same here. I've never had to do anything special with scroll either, other than taking off the "6 7" from the zaxis to prevent firefox from going back a page when I scroll the wheel a little to energetically.

Thanks for the tip!

HA! That has annoyed me for ages and I never found a cure even with much searching (of course I was focused on a 'Firefox' config solution).

Thanks!

I've just been using protocol "auto" and this allows scrolling. I also notice pushing wheel down pulls up different web-sites. I'll go back to adding the z-axis 4 5 and see if that stops. Concur with those before me. If that works it is a good tip. Having the depressed wheel pull up sites annoys me.

Hi ErV:

Agreed, but that is where smplayer fits in quite neatly. DVD menus are still a bit of a pain but there is a single button access to the DVD and 'under-the-hood' access to whichever version of MPlayer you care to install.

Andrew

Edit: Oops I see that front-ends have been mentioned before in this thread :-).

-ErV:

I use Slack since 10.1, before that I use Mandrake and before that BSDi.

I never said that one can't correct or configure all those stuff, I just said that it shouldn't be necessary to have it all not already done at install time.

YOU illustrate perfectly my point: is not even possible to mention those kind of problems in Slack without get the type of answer you and other gave me:


I do CAN like Slack, stay with Slack, but desire it to be better, and not to be blind when looking what is happening with other distros..

By the way, here in Brazil, where I live, the motto of the dictatorship (1964-1984) was exactly "Love it or leave it"(the country)

Of course it could be configured to do all of that for you, but, then it wouldn't be Slackware. Perhaps Vector or Zenwalk would be more automated and to your tastes.
Slackware doesn't want to interfere with the way you want to set-up Slackware. I truly appreciate that PV has set-up Slackware so that I can customize it the way I want.
This isn't a criticism of you, but, rather a description of Slackware's KISS philosophy.