Ok...welllllllll...
I've just dualed Slackware 8.1 on my main box hoping that i can get games etc running alright...and then I'll switch over to Slackware 8.1 full time :) byebye winblows!:D
problems so far:
I have a USB Microsoft Intelli Optical mouse plugged into the PS/2 port with the adapter. to configure X i went: xfree86setup and followed the instructions. Then i went startx and after about 4 seconds of a blank screen it throws me back to the cmd prompt with errors of:
/dev/mouse
Device does not exist.
so i tried changing the config file located at /etc/X11/XF86config from /dev/mouse to /dev/usb/mouse and /dev/input/mouse etc, but none seemed to work.
When i installed XP i think i may have selected and said that the mouse was on the USB port forgetting i was using the PS/2 adapter. Maybe thats the problem? Well, i don't have a clue how to change it back to what it really is tho...
Any idea's on how to maybe install the mouse again, and where the device will be located (/dev/???).
Another prob:
Nobody seems to have replied to this prob over @ OCAU (they have, thats how the DNS for the WWW was fixed...but not for the network), so I'm comin back to the experts here hoping to get some responses :)
I've been playing around with slackware on another box here, just to get the feel of it etc. When i go ping gardiner_desk (my box) it says "Host not found" but when i add 192.168.0.200 gardiner_desk to /etc/resolv.conf it finds it then. I _was_ having the problem of pinging www.google.com and all other sites too but just added my DNS server into one of the config files (can't remember which), but that bit works now. It's just for the network that im having problems with now. I don't want to have to add every computer name and their ips to /etc/resolv.conf otherwise ill be fairly screwed over at LANs :(
Edit: for the mouse prob i found this page and are trying some things (changing the Option "Protocol" "Auto" type of thing...which would slackware use? I'm trying a fair few of them...but do you think this would actually stop X from even detecting there is a device at /dev/mouse?...i think that /dev/mouse isn't the right device but i don't know why it isn't!)
I've just dualed Slackware 8.1 on my main box hoping that i can get games etc running alright...and then I'll switch over to Slackware 8.1 full time :) byebye winblows!:D
problems so far:
I have a USB Microsoft Intelli Optical mouse plugged into the PS/2 port with the adapter. to configure X i went: xfree86setup and followed the instructions. Then i went startx and after about 4 seconds of a blank screen it throws me back to the cmd prompt with errors of:
/dev/mouse
Device does not exist.
so i tried changing the config file located at /etc/X11/XF86config from /dev/mouse to /dev/usb/mouse and /dev/input/mouse etc, but none seemed to work.
When i installed XP i think i may have selected and said that the mouse was on the USB port forgetting i was using the PS/2 adapter. Maybe thats the problem? Well, i don't have a clue how to change it back to what it really is tho...
Any idea's on how to maybe install the mouse again, and where the device will be located (/dev/???).
Another prob:
Nobody seems to have replied to this prob over @ OCAU (they have, thats how the DNS for the WWW was fixed...but not for the network), so I'm comin back to the experts here hoping to get some responses :)
I've been playing around with slackware on another box here, just to get the feel of it etc. When i go ping gardiner_desk (my box) it says "Host not found" but when i add 192.168.0.200 gardiner_desk to /etc/resolv.conf it finds it then. I _was_ having the problem of pinging www.google.com and all other sites too but just added my DNS server into one of the config files (can't remember which), but that bit works now. It's just for the network that im having problems with now. I don't want to have to add every computer name and their ips to /etc/resolv.conf otherwise ill be fairly screwed over at LANs :(
Edit: for the mouse prob i found this page and are trying some things (changing the Option "Protocol" "Auto" type of thing...which would slackware use? I'm trying a fair few of them...but do you think this would actually stop X from even detecting there is a device at /dev/mouse?...i think that /dev/mouse isn't the right device but i don't know why it isn't!)
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