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 [...]
I don’t play games in GNU/Linux too much, but I really wanted to have Fish Fillets NG. It’s mind-bending in a very satisfying way (which unfortunately also makes it a very effective time-sink). This was the first Slackware install that gave me some fits. Fillets needs Lua libraries; I knew that [...]
I’ve played with Compiz with a few livecds and I like it, so when I noticed Slackware 12 came with Compiz 0.5 I decided to use it on my desktop.
I got it running more-or-less ok using this howto posting as a guide. Without GNOME, it’s very difficult and frustrating to tweak the Compiz settings. [...]
I guess I’ll continue to blog about setting up Slackware 12 on my desktop. I’ve just installed the driver for my cheap Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 1020. I call it cheap; it’s a very low-end USB laser printer, but it does a great job for me. Don’t buy it from links on HP’s [...]
As I’m using my new installation of Slackware 12, I keep remembering some little things I want to do, but when I have spare time I can’t remember what they were. So I need a to-do list. /me loves BasKet Note Pads. It was already installed on my laptop, so that’s [...]
Since installing Gentoo GNU/Linux on my laptop, I’d found myself using my desktop less and less. Thanks to a really stupid thing I did a while back, it only had Windows XP installed; that was fine for a while, but eventually I found myself opening the laptop every time I wanted to do [...]