well i did that. i went into /etc/fstab, "gedit fatab", and started editing away. the windows part looked something like: "/dev/hda2 dafault 1 0"
so, i changed it from default, to users, and rebooted. it wouldnt read the drive. so i make it look like "default, users" and rebooted. it was reading ok, in root mode though, and still not in normal user.

i got more information on the gnome thing. when i type nautilus in an xterm, i get some error saying "error loding libcdparanioa" or something like that. im going to install all the packages for slackware, so i can find out if it's a dependency problem. i find no sign that libcparanoia is installed on my system. i'd like to get this fixed because i want to use gnome instead of xfce or fluxbox.

also, how do i add users in slackware? i did "useradd dave" and "passwd dave" and did my password. but there's no home directory. so i create one in root, but im affraid that's probably what's causing the gnome errors.

check for 'cdparanoia-<some version>.tgz' in /var/log/packages...don't see it? install it from /<cdrom>/ap/ (i think that's where it is...don't have my cds)

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`adduser`

then follow instructions


on a side note:: i've never seen a recent notebook that only does 800x600..that's crazy retarded (not saying it isn't true...it's just dumb)
[edit] in fact everywhere i check on this model notebook says it does 1024x768<?>

are you running X11 using any specific driver or just default? [/edit]

For your cdrom, you don't want 'defaults,users,etc'

Here's mine:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 unhide,noauto,user,ro 0 0

I have no trouble mounting and using it as user

btw: If you created a directory as root it would only be read/writable as root without modifying the permissions. That would definitely cause you problems.
Use ls -l to list the directory and see file permissions.

thanks for the help, i got gnome working, and i got the cd-rom to moun tunder a normal user. same with /windows/D (windows D drive vfat), normal users can copy and edit files on it. thanks.

as for my 1024x768 problem, yeah, it does do 1024 in windows, but in linux theres a glitch in the BIOS i think it was, where X only sees about 1MB, limiting it to 800x600. theres many fixed, about 6 total, and i havent gotten any of them to work at all. i have another forum post on this matter, since im still having trouble with it. its names "i810 vs VESA" or just search posts by DAChristen29. i would very much like to get 1024x768, and im about to pay someone to fix it, but i'd rather not. that's how desperate i am.

another question.

how do i setup a virtual screen resolution? i have it at 800x600, because of that darn BIOS bug. i need it to go to 1024x768.

also, i have maya 4.5 for linux. its only in rpm format. everytime i do rpm2tgz, installs, but doesnt run properly. it doesnt com eup with the serial ID screen, which it normally does in redhat and mandrake 9.0.

if anyone has the time, can you look at my "i810 vs vesa" post? i really really need help with my video card.

also, (see above question). i tried doing "xwmconfig" and changed my default WM to fluxbox, and its still loading me into GNOME. it wont stop!!!!

does anyone have a good fluxbox menu that you've created for slackware 9.1?

my flux menu is rather ...plain i guess...

setting the fb resolution is done in lilo.conf or grub.conf whichever you use...(lilo or grub..)... i dont use grub so i only have lilo experience...

check out :: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=134925

and also the LQ.org search if you don't understand my example :), or need to modify grub.conf

...as for the menu....

..told ya it was simple ...i got nothin on here now..

is there a "lazy man" tool for slackware to add users? and automatically configure stuff? like networks, ISP connections?

also, how do i add RPM support to slackware? i mean FULL rpm support.

Dude... You don't want Slackware. You want a user friendly distro that's RPM based. At least, thats the impression I get from reading your posts. Suse, Mandrake, Fedora... They all already do what you are looking for. Slack is the exact opposite of those distro's. Why spend a lot of time trying to turn it into something that already exists?

Slackware is for users that don't want any automatic stuff and prefer to have complete control by handling tasks manually. Leaving out all that automatic stuff, the GUI tools, and the RPM support is what makes Slackware stable and easy to use.

However, rpm2tgz will turn an RPM into a .tgz (slackware package) for you which you can then install with 'installpkg foo.tgz'

I would imagine you could just install RPM for sudo-full support, but I Have no idea why you'd want to... Slack wasn't designed with that in mind so it probably wouldn't be perfect. Compiling from source, or using .tgz's is the way to go.

Getting full support for rpm is just stupid cause you'll mess up with the whole directory system organization... slackware is known as a distro that still has the same directory structure and files organization since its early days when that organization was taken from unix systems.... the other distros didn't keep that up... they have their own default places for libraries and other stuff which is different from "slack's way of life". So you'll get a great mess with rpm support... just like an apt-get port to slackware....full support to .deb files... sigh... it want to install my system up from the kernel...tried slapt-get but I'm just happy downloading packages on my own...
Ahn... easy way, easy stuff....You may get easy ways and easy stuff as you learn some bash programming! I have almost all my stuff working automatically through scripts I've created.. they fit my needs... that's slack's way...
and.... Are you sure that's a BIOS bug? if it was a BIOS bug your windows wouldn't recognize the video memory aswell... I think you should try the VESA driver for Xwindows... edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and when you find something like:

# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

Section "Device"
Identifier "VESA Framebuffer"
Driver "vesa"
#VideoRam 4096
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

Just change

Driver's field for that one.... vesa..... put it vesa in there and it should just work.....

I hope you can manage to get along with slackware.. just give it a try, and you may find yourself learning a lot....after you get used to it you'll see everything is just too simple to worry

im sure its a BIOS bug. like i said earlier, i have a whole thread on this subject. VESA doesnt help either.

i just need RPM support to install one program: Maya 4.5 . i tried rpm2tgz and it doesnt work at all with maya. maya is only avalible in RPM format.

did you try to limit to 16bit colors? remove the 24 bit one and try again

its at 16 bit now, and wont go any higher.

so how would i go about installing Maya 4.5 since its in RPM support?