Im new to linux, so my impression of KDE is that it is a GUI. Now that I finally have slack up and running I was shocked to see that it was complety text based. I have viewed screenshots of Slackware with a GUI and I was wondering how to get one, since it would make it easier then learning hundrends of commands right off the bat.
(I am running a fully installed version of 10.2 so the KDE was installed.)

Once you log in, type "startx" (without the quotes) and you should have KDE running.

Thank You Very Much

No problem. You may need to edit your xorg.conf file or run xorgsetup if you have problems when X and KDE start running.

Ok I found that out because I dont have a mouse installed so it gave me acouple errors. One was Cannot initiate core devices, and the other was XIO: Fatal IO error 104... so i kinda figured that I have to do something else. I see there is stuff on how to set the mouse so i will have to read some other posts. then ill try that xorgsetup stuff.

Welcome to Slackware!!
I would use this howto...
http://www.bitbenderforums.com/vb22/...?postid=311808

It is a great intro on how to set things up initially in Slack.

Happy Slacking....

You did create a normal user account before trying startx, yes? Running as root all the time is a very bad idea.

Yes, further to what Nylex said, type adduser at the root prompt and set-up a user account. You shouldn't run your unit as root all of the time.

I added a user account and I tryed to run startx, but my darn mouse still fails. I tried all kids of protocols, because like i said in my other posts I have a microsoft mouse that can be usb or ps/2. So im still having trouble with it running. I have it plugged into my ps/2 port and the protocol set up as "IMPS/2", but it does not recgonize it. I dont know the protocol for usb though I havent tried it in the usb port yet.

Does just leaving the protocol setting on "Auto" not work either?

That was the begining protocol. So I will have to try that again.

Hello jmw080, welcome to Slackware, where the most efficient configuration tool is yourself (the "keyboard - chair interface")
It's really weird about your mouse....

Try this:
-- connect it to the USB port
-- in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, in the InputDevice section for the mouse tell it that your mouse device is /dev/input/mice
-- leave the protocol as IMPS/2
-- If you have a wheelbutton and you want it to work, add in the same section That should work
Let us know what happens later

I remember when I first set up X that I couldn't get the mouse wheel to work. Actually it worked when first configured automatically from Debian's Install. What was kind of messed up is that I ended having to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to fix my monitor settings. This runs an script that is for configuring your X. One would think it would use to same facility as the main install, but no. So I had messed around with the XF86Config-4 using all sorts of settings for the mouse. None of them would work except for one. The only way my mouse wheel would work is if I used "auto" in the XF86Config-4. Pretty strange since you would think that "auto" is the first one to not work if something isn't going to work.

The nice thing about the Install is that it worked for setting up the mouse automatically. All I had to do was wiggle around the mouse while it probed it. I never could find a way to get it to do that again post-install.

Did you ever try running xorgsetup, that usually takes care of most people. If it doesn't you might tell us what kind of mouse you have. Don't try the methods in pingfloyd's post.