Since I started out with Gentoo, I’m used to colors in virtual consoles and terminal emulators. There’s a small but vocal group of Gentooers who hate them and switch everything to monochrome, but I couldn’t live with that at this point. Slackware sticks with basic white-on-black, so I have to tweak things a [...]
I have a GeForce 8600 GTS so I need nVidia’s binary driver. (Well, for values of “need” which include needing to run at full resolution and have a tolerable display.) Just downloading and running the installer from nVidia has worked up to now for me with Slackware, but not this time, after I had compiled [...]
As it turns out, there’s really very little to blog about regarding my Slackware 12.1 installation. Almost everything Just Works.
Update: I gave up on the approach below and solved the problem by modifying the kdeeject script per comment 13 in this Gentoo bug report. This seems a lot better than screwing with the device’s [...]
I have a GeForce 8600 GTS video card. Grabbing the latest nVidia drivers (right now, 169.12) and following nVidia’s instructions worked fine. I’d never let nVidia’s installer autoconfigure xorg for me, but I gave it a shot this time, and it turned out well. It left the default resolutions at 1024×768, but it [...]
I’d been doing most of my work on my laptop. I wanted to play the most recent Half-Life episode on the desktop, which meant installing Windows. It was a huge hassle installing Windows XP, much worse than any Linux install this century, and part of it was to destroy everything on the [...]