Partition Permissions, Sound mess-ups, Mouse Config, Screen Resolution

thebeast · 11-03-2003, 02:54 PM

I have bunch of issues. I love Slackware 9.1 to death, i just need more knowledge. I have some questions:

1) How do i get linux to auto-mount my cd-rom drive and NTFS partition, and how can i make these accessible to a regular user?

2) When I'm in KDE, my sounds work normally for a while, then every once in a while a really loud popping sound distorts the sound playing, then they'll go back to normal. What am i doing wrong?

3) How do I get the scroll thing working on my mouse? It's just a generic 3-button with a scroll thing. Do i need drivers or...?

4) How do i change my screen resolution? Do i have to edit some files for X?

LogicG8 · 11-03-2003, 03:19 PM

1) edit your fstab
to look sort of like this your devices/ mount points may be different

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0

the user option allows a user to enter the command
mount /mnt/cdrom
successfully. Or to have command executed on the
users behalf say under kde

To automatically mount the ntfs filesystem try
/dev/hda2 /mnt/windows ntfs ro 1 1

NTFS is supported read only and I don't know if slack has it
installed by default

2) Sorry can't help you with that one

3) edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config

Find your mouse entry edit to look like this:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
    Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

The options are the keys

4) Edit your XF86Config some more
to change resolutions in X use ctrl alt +
or ctrl alt -

Fill with your info, but here's the format
the resolution you want should go first
the virtual port stuff is so you don't have
a desktop larger than your resolution

Code:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "Ati Radeon"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768/100Hz" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
                Virtual 0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
                Virtual 0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
                Virtual 0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection