Mere moments before you came down with that post, I went to a webpage about Linux text editing, then VI, and labored to hell and back for an hour, and FINALLY, I got that part done, and I know how to use the basics VI to boot

BTW, they said CTR-U deleted a line, but that didn't work, whats the keystroke in slackwares VI?

Anyways, it still isn't accepting my mouse, or video, or anything else. What I need now is some heavy duty help. First off, it is giving me a funny error with xf86cfg and not saving my mouse settings, so I can't really expirement. How do you suggest I go about getting my mouse running, since it's pretty clear that's the next step?

My mouse is a logitech, USB, with two regular buttons, a wheel+button, and a thumb button. It is a laser mouse.


I don't even wanna know how hard it's gonna be to get my nForce and GF4Ti 4600 set up Also, the max resolution option for the moniter CFG seems to be 1280x1024, whereas mine does like 1920x1440x60hz. Still, lets get the mouse working first, shall we

Your CPU is built off of the x86 architecture, of which the only option above
is i386 (intel 386 chip).

Thanx man, I figured after looking at the other names it was i386. Your confirmation just lowered my blood pressure!

Wow, I see this thread is floating between slackware, Xconfigurator (which is RH thing), mouse, mandrake, architecture, vi, and what not. So as for VI question, to delete entire line in command mode hit d key twice and volia!!! Hit capital Z twice and you saved and quit from vi.

Linux people rock more than even Linux itself Sorry for the floating neo, it's just that I am a total newb. Still, I am stuck on getting my hardware set up It's just totally out of my league, and I need a pointer or three.

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Ok, on my other thread it was said that I should state a goal, so here goes I want full functioning hardware, my DVD drive, my Burner, my GeForce 4 Ti, my mouse, soundcard, NIC for my DSL lan, everything. I want to be able to run X windows, be able to run games, you name it. Pretty much what I do on the windows side of my system, as I intend ultimately to dump winblowz for good.

ok, here's some quick reference for vi:

"i" => insert mode

"Esc" => normal mode

in insert mode, it's just like a normal text-editor.

some basic normal mode commands:

:q! => quit w/out saving
:w <file> => write to <file> (<file> only needed once)
:wq => write and quit
dw => delete word
d$ => delet to end of line
dd => delet whole line
u => undo command
<ctrl>-g => show location & status of file
:<command> => execute <command> (in bash... ex: mkdir)

ok... for playing movies: mplayer. music: xmms

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

I would suggest using fluxbox for your window manager too.

here's a good hint for setting up X... just look @ the config part

http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/xfree86_42.txt

if your burner isn't scsi... you'll need to enable "scsi-emulation" in the kernel

http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdwriter.txt (might be a bit outdated... but the kernel config part is right on.

for the mouse, you should set up "gpm"

I've given you some tip's links from "LFS" ... linux from scratch, but there should be some usefull stuff in all of them for you.

I want my hardware to be set up, and the X environment. I would like to be able to surf the Internet and play, emm, Quake 3 or Counter Strike, stuff like that. I want to be able to play media files, go to Newgrounds.com, etc. I want to be set up I don't know enough about linux to say more specific than that, maybe one of you knows what I should do next?

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Findind a point of referance seems to be what's so hard. All these tips are great, but I don't know how to get from A to B. I can't just go download a file into Linux

start w/ either setting up your network card, or setting up X. I'm guessing that slackware has info on the network stuff... it really won't be too hard (i'd help w/ that... but I don't use slack.. this thread started somewhere else) Once you do that, there is a command line based web browser (actually a couple) called lynx that you can get to the net with. Is your box the gateway to the dsl, or is it just on your local network?

xmms is a clone of winamp.... it can even use it's skins!

mplayer will play all video files including dvd's

Mozilla is probably the best browser you can get, there are others (like galleon, which you need the gnome libraries for), but this is probably the one you want.

Gpm would also be a good start... so you can use the mouse.

xcdroast is a great x-frontend for the cd-r/rw tools that I linked you to earlier.

I guess it just takes a lot of researching... but that's most of the fun. Don't expect to have a dream system right away... it'll probably take some time, but you will be happy at the end.

Good Luck!

This system is hooked to a router that is what actually connects to the internet. The main problem lies in the fact that I have an integrated Nvidia Nic, and it's kind of hard to set it up without setting EVERYTHING up

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It's 5 AM here, goodnight for today Thanks for all you've done, and I'll be back later.

You just need to figure out what the actual NIC device is, find the kernel
module for it (look in /lib/modules/2.x.xx/kernel/drivers/net) 2.x.xx is your
kernel version (uname -r will tell you). If there is nothing there, then you've
got a lot of reading about compiling your kernel to do, though Slackware
usually has all of the NIC modules compiled and should have set that up
for you at setup time. If it didn't you may have to google around to find
where your kernel module is. nVidia seems to be doing a good job of
releasing drivers for their various hardware.

I know it's my fault and not linuxes, but I can't follow this. I am willing to try, but all the solutions assume much information I don't know. Even the tutorials for *newbies* assume I know more linux than I do...

Ok.
You are currently stuck in the console? My suggestion is to find a good
book (good is subjective, whatever you can read and understand is probably
good, for a start) on linux for newbies. This will probably be either an O'Reilly
book or one of those (not to be disparaging, they can be good) "for idiots"
books.
It's not that we don't want to help, it's just that it will be much easier on
you if you know some of what we're talking about. We usually assume
the newbie isn't actually a newbie, and so we start off with the assumption
that you've got some basic knowledge, which by your own admission
you have only a very small amount.

Now, about the above:

To "look in a directory" means you need to list what is in that directory.
This is done by typing the following at your prompt (sometimes a flashing
cursor):

ls /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers/net

(ls is the command, /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers/net is the argument
to the command, with 2.4.19 being the output from the following.

uname -r
is a command that prints system information. The -r "switch" tells uname
to only print the operating system release information, which in the case
of linux means print the kernel version.

Anytime you are told to input a command you don't understand, use:
man command
This will give you a somewhat useful description of the command and its
use.

I am sorry if I browsed this too fast, I freely admit to not reading the entire thread, just a quick suggestion is all I have...

Install an "easier to use" (also very subjective, but hey, so is a lot of things ) command line text editor since that's where you will be for a while. Vi is very important to learn, don't get me wrong, but for now, to keep your hope alive, try out something like pico. Pico is part of Pine, so browse your Slack discs, and find pine, install it, and you'll have pico. emacs is another favorite around here, and is easy to use, plus you've got joe and many others. My personal suggestion is pico though.

Cool

I really liked pico when I first started way back when, but I now exclusively
use vi.