I have installed my Gnome desktop but i cant get it to run and i think its because i havnt run XF86config and setup however when i login as root and type 'xf86config' or 'xf86setup' nothing happens. It says bash: xfsconfig: command not found.

Can someone tell me what i am doing wrong, and yes i have read THE BOOK but i cant seem to figure it out.

Thx

Are you running xf86config as a regular user or as root?

That probably means that you installed
gnome but forgot to install X? :)

Cheers,
Tink

Well sorry for all this noobiness but i thought the initial install put all things such as that on the drive. Obviously not. Guess I'm thinking too microsofty.

Cheers

No worries ... many people make the mistake
to believe that Linux by default comes with/
requires a graphical environment, which, as
a matter of fact, it doesn't need ;)

XFree is a distinct product, you'll find it on
almost any distro's CD's, but not everyone
installs it by default .... and Slack only does
if you chose the FULL install or explicitly
select it. And chosing gnome (or KDE)
won't select X for you.

Cheers,
Tink

After installing x i loaded gnome and got this message so im guessing ive missed another package maybe. Trouble is i dont know which one. EEkkk

Im sorry to keep bothering u man.

I t says, 'Gnome-session: error while loading shared libraries: libaudiofile.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

Any ideas

install <your CD's mountpoint>/slackware/l/audiofile-0.2.3-i386-3.tgz

To get a hold of the location other missing
libraries do a
Cheers,
Tink

You know more about linux than, than, oh i dunno but bloody hell fire.

THx again

Just more more question dude. How can i check my hard disc space that is left?

I wont ask anymore, er at least not in the next 24 hours.

He he thanks for all your help youve been a calming inflluence.

Cheers

Danny

df

Sorry if I have posted in a wrong thread/forum. I have been trying to figure this out for two weeks already. I have been trying to set-up x windows using XF86Setup, /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup, these are the instructions I got. I remember that I have installed the x-windows package.

I installed the Slackware 9.0 distro. I installed the whole package. I still don't know what to do to get my windows system to work.

**Note

I"m a total newb...and sorry again for the above and that this is a long msg.

Please someone help me. I greatly appreciate it!

I heard about Linux and how powerful it is. I am greatly interested but I don't know if ?I can ever expereience it. I don't know where to start. lol

So is it that you can't get the configuration right with the set-up tools, or you just don't know what to do next?
Since you said you're completely new to Linux, it might be your X is just fine, you just haven't started it. In Slackware, it won't come up by default. But do this: log in as your user, you'll just get the command line. That's OK, type "xwmconfig". This should bring up a screen where you can select which desktop environment you want to run. Select, say, KDE or Gnome. Now back to the command line, and type "startx". This is the command that actually starts your X, using the desktop you've just selected.
And now you'll find out whether in fact you configured your X correctly on not!

Well I prefer df -h "-h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)" Unless you are a computer parsing the output ;-)

Well quite again I'm stuck. I have tried xwmconfig, including df -h, which lists my partitions. It only lists "/" (root in other words). Sould I have had more partitions? .

I don't think I have installed anythig properly..lol. I'll just re-install everything. Thanks alot for your guys help.

Yes, df -h lists the available disk space. It has nothing to do with xwmconfig, Astro was replying to another question, a couple of posts above! As for number of partitions, / partition is all you need. You should've probably made a swap partition as well, but df won't show that anyway.
If you're having really hard time getting your Slack going, you might want to cheat a bit - try to download a live CD, run that and see how it works, how it sets up your devices etc. That's the trick I often use to set up my X, because I have no patience for this xfconfig-whatever rubbish asking me for horizontal and vertical refresh rates of my monitor. 'cause we all have manuals for our monitors available - as if!
I just boot a live CD, Knoppix or some such, copy its /etc/X11/XF86Confonfig-4 file, and I'm off and running!

Another thing you could try, instead of sticking with Slackware, for now get a copy of College Linux - it is strictly compatible with Slackware 8.0 but unlike Slack it will (with some luck) auto-configure your hardware at install time. The downside here is that it' is not compatible with current Slack, but it would be something to get you started - so at least you see some return for all your efforts!