Slackel openbox will run great on it.

I seem to have some issues with lilo not wanting to install because it doesnt know my grafic card compatibility with vesa. I managed to get pass that once but then the bootloader stoped before mounting the main partition. I reformated and trying again right now
I ll.keep you guys posted: d

I ran into that also with lilo set to auto resolution. I picked 800x600 and got past that hurdle myself.

Ook. So i managed to install it fine the seccond time, chosed to not install kde at all an had some reading to do and installed wicd-network manager to sort my lan/ wlan connections. Now i seem to have alsa not working. It shows my card but does not play sound even with alsa-utils installed. So i need to figure that one out.

I use command line tools, wicd-curses and pm-utils. You can stop window focus stealing in Ratpoison with the rudeness setting in ~/.ratpoisonrc

Well, i installed XFCE4 but the nm-applet wasnt installed, neither the power management. But i ll figure that out later, i need to make the sound work somehow. any ideas ? should you need any logs please ask

Thanks a bunch !

Start off with the easy things. Is your sound muted? Check alsamixer. Next, make sure it is using the right sound card if multiple cards are detected (HDMI outputs generally are recognized as sound outputs and are sometimes the default output). See the output of aplay -L or /proc/asound/cards. You can then try playing wave files to the various devices/subdevices to see if you get sound through one of them (aplay -D hw:0,0 somefile.wav). If you can get sound, you can set it as default using /etc/asound.conf. See Alsa's page on asoundrc for more info.

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc

I remember back on Slack 12 i had to increase the volumes in alsamixer from the terminal in order to work. I forgot about that, will test it as soon as i get home . Thanks for the heads up kind sir !

Cheers !

nm-applet should be installed in the network-manager-applet package. Is that installed? Does the applet run when called from the terminal with nm-applet?

I think xfce4-power-manager only works if you're running XFCE itself, currently, and then will only appear in the system tray if told to do so. If your power management isn't working at all in xfce then you might not have the correct permissions, probably because your user account isn't in the right groups.

In alsamixer you can unmute channels, if they are muted, by selecting them with left and right arrows and pressing m. If they're muted there will be an "MM" at the bottom of the bar. You can also change soundcard in alsamixer with F6.

I did not try nm-applet in terminal yet. I saw that NetworkManager was not found in the bootloader buffer. The DHCPCD option worked fine, netconfig worked fine, but when i started X with xfce, the network connections manager in the system settings doesn t do anything upon pressing it. Which is strange. Maybe it was a shared applet with KDE pack ?

During setup did you configure network manager? If not try the following.

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager

Then nm-applet should work just fine.

http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:beginners_guide

Actually, not strange at all. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...9/#post5236776
The key points in that link include:
1. nm-applet requires being able to load into a system tray
2. Having used netconfig, you will need to revert to a clean /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf to use NetworkManager.
3. It pays to read your mail

I got sound to work finally, i now need to install Java JRE and chromium because youtube is not usable as it lags as hell, will keep you guys posted :d Thanks for the support !

Please correct me if I am wrong, but AFAIK pm-utils cannot manage things like 'after 10 minutes of idle time, sleep' or 'if battery is low, hibernate' (if you have a solution for this, let me know!) -- and I have to run them as root. That's the reason why I was using xfce4-power-manager; but whenever you plug in / plug off your AC, xfce4-power-manager creates a little pop-up-window that is annoying independently of my rudeness setting (it just works right with xfce or kde -- balloon messages from systray).

I you used netconfig to configure DHCP the computer will automatically connect, probably through eth0, and won't start networkmanager. nm-applet only works if networkmanager is running. I believe nm-applet was developed by the Gnome project originally, and should work with both KDE and XFCE too.