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Old 09-29-2003, 12:19 AM   #46
Kovacs
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Re: halt


Quote:
Originally posted by rstmn957
The only problem i have with slack is, it does not shutdown automatically as other distro when you power off your machine. Did they fix that on slack 9.1. Beside that it is a great operating system.
I fixed that problem (using the bare.i kernel) by opening /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and uncommenting this line:

# /sbin/modprobe apm

and rebooting.
 
Old 09-29-2003, 07:27 AM   #47
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Yes, that's true. A lot of guys don't modprobe apm and when they start to ask around what's the problem they get a lot of answers but non of them seem to help because there's actaully no problem Like Kovacs said. Open your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and find the line:
# /sbin/modprobe apm
uncomment it and here you go! The next time you boot up you'll be able to poweroff automatically. Actually you don't even have to reboot. Uncomment the line so that in the future you wouldn't have to modprobe manually and after uncommentig do a:
modprobe apm
and I think you'll be able to poweroff. Good luck!
 
Old 09-29-2003, 09:25 AM   #48
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Hi guys,

I tried used swaret to update my system and everything was done half way when swaret tell me I run out of disk space. I found out that those packages are download into /var. Can I delete those files located in /var? Running swaret -a update will download those files I wonder whether it do the install at the same time if yes then I properly don't need those files in /var so I can free my space.

I need some advise on this. Thanks in advance
Anyone notice my questions?
 
Old 09-30-2003, 09:37 AM   #49
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I got problem installing the bittorrent version 3.3 installer on w2k, n found this earlier installer from googling ..

http://web.newsguy.com/nstrom/bittor...L-3.2.1b-2.exe

After download, just click it, then it is installed, now am participate in downloading the slackware-9.1-install-d2.iso.

Download Rate: 10+kb/s, Upload Rate:~2kB/s
Total Speed Peak I'd seen: 395kB/s
 
Old 09-30-2003, 10:28 AM   #50
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Oh man, it is exciting ...
The total speed is increasing, it is getting midnite in here JKT..
I got the bandwidth of the cable .. it peaks to 609 kB/s, n keep increasing ..

Download rate: ~12/13, Upload:~2/3 kB/s ..
Connected with 26 peers, 38 seeds ..
 
Old 09-30-2003, 10:51 AM   #51
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Quote:
Originally posted by Sifvion
Anyone notice my questions?
You can specify where those files go in the /etc/swaret.conf file. You should not delete those files until swaret has finished running (it installs after the downloads), and it's a good idea to leave them there anyway in case you need to re-install anything.

Just move the files to a directory with more available space and change the location in /etc/swaret.conf.

Phathead
 
Old 09-30-2003, 12:39 PM   #52
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Post Mozilla-1.2.1 'textbox freeze' workaround

I found 2 posts on this forum who also had this problem:

With Mozilla newer than 1.2.1 on Slackware, it would freeze if you were type in any text field. [url bar, options, inputboxes...]

You were told you were nuts but you weren't, this only appears on certain hardware and I found the workaround finally..

Before typing anything so it won't freeze, goto 'Advanced' / 'Keyboard Navigation' and disable 'Find As You Type'.

The same is true for MozillaFirebird (Phoenix).. except you can't get to about:config by typing it, the easiest way is to edit prefs.js.

You can all sleep easy now.
 
Old 09-30-2003, 02:15 PM   #53
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I think I'll stay with 9.0, why bother? 9.0 works for me.
 
Old 09-30-2003, 03:05 PM   #54
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Quote:
Originally posted by naflan
I think I'll stay with 9.0, why bother? 9.0 works for me.
I had the same reaction, last night I switched over the house laptop, 3 roommates... and today one of them mentioned that the cool background I had created for kdm was gone and the battery monitor in KDE looked different... that's it. None of us use Gnome and the thing's kernel was 2.4.22 before anyway so... yeah, kinda null difference. I liked the services selection option, that was a nice change. Dunno, I guess I'll keep poking around, I'll soon find some new cool slack chunk I could never do without I'm sure.

Cheers,

Finegan
 
Old 09-30-2003, 03:13 PM   #55
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got the isos burned them and installed them
WOW slackware strikes again
fast powerful as usual
five stars
 
Old 09-30-2003, 03:16 PM   #56
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/me envy to all of you with ultra, mega, giga bandwidth...
 
Old 09-30-2003, 04:13 PM   #57
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bit was really fast for me
u just have it a long time conected +1h . . .

i dled all 4 cds in a night . . .
 
Old 09-30-2003, 05:20 PM   #58
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Quote:
Originally posted by naflan
I think I'll stay with 9.0, why bother? 9.0 works for me.
Yes, thats exactly what I think. I'm sure that slack 9.1 is great as any other one I've used so far, but 9.0 it was a great experience for me and it works really great and I think I will keep it for some time.
I solved the little probs (very little ones) I had at the begining (fonts and mouse wheel) by installing BitStream Vera Fonts and by modifying my XF86Config and I already have my desktop, notebook and servers with all security patches installed and working great, so....
- If it isnt broken dont fix it... . I can think about doing some experiences on my desktop but never on my servers. I only upgrade them recently from 7.X to 9.0...

9.0 is great!
 
Old 10-01-2003, 12:58 AM   #59
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Quote:
The only problem i have with slack is, it does not shutdown automatically as other distro when you power off your machine. Did they fix that on slack 9.1. Beside that it is a great operating system.
I sorted this problem out by uncommenting '#/sbin/modprobe apm' in, /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. (Find it under the '#### APM Support ###' heading.)
I didn't need to add acpi support.
 
Old 10-01-2003, 06:09 AM   #60
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do i have to download all cd ?
actually it's quite annoying to have many program installed which i don't use or same kind programs like kate, kwrite, emacs, vi, several shells. it's all the same.
 
  


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