vonbiber

A while ago I wrote a slackbuild generator that creates a skeleton slackbuild. I use it whenever I need to build a slackware package from source. If the building follow the classic./configuremakemake install ... there are just minor adjustments to make, and the slackbuild is ready to use. What I always do is 1. unpack the…

I installed slackware from an iso file a while ago. I posted the notes on how you can do this (link below). All you need is: 1. a few available partitions (one for storing the files from the iso, one for the installation, ...) 2. some kind of boot loader (I used grub) http://vonbiber.byethost17.com/slackware/nocd/

I always use a single partition for the whole linux system. I have several linux systems on different partitions on my hard drive. I also have a swap partition and larger partitions that I use for storage (that's where I download the isos, etc.). On the partition I'm currently on I use slackware 12.2 and here's the output…

As long as you're running windows, the registry gets written to. Why don't you install linux on its own partition? You could 1. use a tool such as gparted to shrink/move your windows partition(s) without losing your windows system You could use a linux live system such as partedmagic (http://partedmagic.com/) partedmagic…

can you display the result of each of these 3 commands (from a console/terminal):dmesg | grep -i wirelesscat /proc/net/wirelessifconfig -a What distribution did you install?

you can install slackware without even a cd-drive, doing it all from the hard drive. For this you will need 1. be able to boot from a linux system (it can be a live system) 2. a sufficiently big partition to hold the slackware*.iso file and to extract it to a directory in that same partition 3. a boot loader installed on…

here's a possible script skeleton. Copy the code below and paste into a script file. Fill in with your commands (database creation, etc.).#!/bin/shLOG=databases.txtusage(){cat <<ENDUSAGE: $0 schema_name database_nameprovide description hereENDreturn 1}create_database(){#enter the commands to create the databaseif [ $? -eq…

installed linux system: slackware 12.0 I have installed slackware 13.0 but haven't got around to use it yet. slackware is the very first linux system I installed (can't remember the version number but it's one-digit). I also use live linux systems that I carry on a usb stick: slax, grml, RIPlinux, pmagic I concur with…

you could use output each of those files into a files that have a single line only, then compare the one-line files. In other words, you replace the new line character by one space and you remove extra spaces. A seder could do that for you. Example ###copy and paste to seder.sed below this line#!/bin/sed -f:loopN$!b…

I haven't used lilo for years and I don't have it installed on my system. I suppose I could figure out the syntax for the menu entry but then I couldn't test it on my system.

slax: it can be run from a cdrom or a usb stick http://www.slax.org/ Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use ... The modular approach gives you the…

I have an hp laptop hp pavilion dv4-1199ef I already wrote an /etc/modprobe.d where I tried different values for model based on what I read in the /Documentation/sound/alsa/HDA-models.txt (or something like this) in my kernel source tree, and that'd could fit for an hp laptop the latest I tried was model=laptop it seems…

you could try slackware either an old version (slackware 11.*) or if it's slackware12.*, use a light x-window environment such as xfce (but definitely not kde)

I just checked with alsamixer my pcm level is not set at 0 (it's set at 71) one weird thing I noticed is that the sound card uses a certain irq on my installed slackware and another one on my live slax linux here's the 2nd line of 'cat /proc/asound/cards' from slackware; HDA Intel at 0xdf300000 irq 11 and from slax: HDA…

I also have a couple of suggestions 1. how about displaying some (all?) of the groups (such as the distros) in a comma separated clickable links so you won't have to go thru 3 or pages or more before you find the one you're looking for 2. in general simplify the interface as much as possible a. the less clicks the better…

my snd_hda_intel was built in the kernel, and not as a module but even when it's built as a module (which I did with the last kernel I built---linux-2.6.29.4) it's still not working and the lsmod does display all the sound modules given the number of posts I saw elsewhere I think there's an issue with this card so I keep…

How do you join? I clicked on the HERE link in the message but I saw no 'join the group' link in the new page.

I've been a slackware user for quite a while and I always selected kde as the default for x. But recently I tested a live distro called kongoni that is based on slackware. It comes with kde4 as the default. I didn't like it at all and I think when slackware will have kde4 I'll switch to xfce One thing I like is having a…

# alsaconf displays this message no supported PnP or PCI card found and yet, when I run this # lspci | grep -i audio it displays this 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) I noticed that slackware uses a /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa I know that it's run at boot time (it's in mod+x)…

I do get the beep (that I turn off because I find it annoying) other than that nothing in kde even when I turn the notification system sounds there's nothing either

well, it depends on what you want to do if you want just a basic display, echo is enough printf allows you to display with formatting features. If you're familiar with c, it's similar to c's printf I'll give you some examples # i=5 1. echo # echo $i 5 # 2. printf # printf $i 5#printf "$i\n" 5 # # printf "%02d\n" $i 05 # As…

I meant the hardware is working I'm an intermediate user. I'm comfortable with the console, the shell, (re)building the kernel, etc. the hda intel is built in the kernel (not as a module) I use slackware 12.2 my laptop is very recent: hp pavilion dv4-1199ef

It's working on my vista partition.