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billy_gates:
After many hours of toil and formatting I figured out the solution to all of my problems
KISS - Keep it Simple, Stupid
After repeated failed attepmts at rebuilding the kernel (so easy in RH, so hard in Slack) and several problems with gaim and nvidia drivers.  I decided to reformat.
I then installed the nvidia drivers from source, worked perfectly.  I then installed GAIM with a brand new trick I learned for compiling software:
./configure --prefix=/apps/gaim
so now I have the equivilant of an applications folder on my linux system (although, its only for my custom insalled apps)

So i can run at 1280x1024 and use GAIM, and somehow GAIM fixed my fonts, so now a lot of stuff is smooth as silk.  Still not perfect, there is slight overlapping sometimes, buts its better than out of the box.

Gnome was too slow, so I use window maker with nautilus in the background for file browsing.  Does anyone know where I can get the true window maker file browser?  I found an icon set for nautilus that is a copy of my icon set for my OSX machine.  So i feel closer to home.

Linux is very intimading to get started.  But I have a feeling that once I am done setting this machine up and installing all my apps.  I will use it more than winblows.  Especially since now it is faster than my Win2K.  With RH it was slower.

This is getting better and better.
My next project is to fix my mouse so the scroll wheel works.  Then the fonts will be after that.

P.S. If someone will tell me how to take screenshots in windowmaker, that would be great.

Doctor V:
Gratz on getting Slack setup and further freeing yourself from that bug ridden piece of horseshit OS from Redmond.

With that said, I have never used slackware.  I hear it has no package manager, is this still true.  Do you still have to install everything using tar-configure-make-make install?  Doesn't that become a pain after a while?  Especially if there are dependancies to deal with for a package, I could see it becomming a real piece of work.  Just my impression.

billy_gates:
there technically is a package manager.  I used it.  Its much easier and faster than RPM, but much harder to find packages.  I have only installed Ogle, Mplayer, and GAIM.  All of the libs for Ogle were packages, but I built the actualy program.  I also built mplayer, and GAIM.

in Ogle I can't get sound to work, and in mplayer when i do the -skin option to load a skin I downloaded it doesn't recognize the option... even though it clearly states it in the MAN file.

More troublshooting ahead.

shuiend:
yah slackware is a bitch to get up and running but once you got it working it just works.Slack package manager are .tgz files. They are easy to install but most programmers dont make those types of packages. Jeffberg y did u compile gaim? It is on the cd with in a package. That gaim works fine for me. Also i cant get gmplayer to work either. Mplayer works fine but i cant get skins

billy_gates:

quote:Originally posted by wild_jester / BOB:
yah slackware is a bitch to get up and running but once you got it working it just works.Slack package manager are .tgz files. They are easy to install but most programmers dont make those types of packages. Jeffberg y did u compile gaim? It is on the cd with in a package. That gaim works fine for me. Also i cant get gmplayer to work either. Mplayer works fine but i cant get skins
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my slack came with gaim .60 but gaim .68 is far superior.  So I built it.

I got mplayer to work:
first i had to uninstall it (not sure if I had to or not... i just did)
then i did ./configure --enable-gui
then I ran gmlayer and it said there were no skins.  So i went to www.mplayerhq.hu and downloaded the skin blue.  I put it into the mplayer skin folder.  ran gmplayer, no default skin.  rename Blue to default.  opened gmplayer
it opened but then said I had no ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf.  So I went into the fonts folder for x11r6, forgot the exact path.  and did ln -s realfont /home/jeffberg/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

no more errors.  I havn't played a video on it, but it seems to work.

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