I've just synchronized my slackware64-current mirror, iso burned, booting, starting cfdisk, creating a partition, and I'm not able to set the partition type to `Linux Raid Autodetect` (FD) or any other, that needs 2 characters to be entered in cfdisk -> Type.Cfdisk alows only one character to be entered ("F" or any other).
View 3 RepliesI've scoured the list of options for FS type in cfdisk for ext3 or ext4 to no avail. How then do I set the filesystem type for my partition to ext3?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am having a hard time compiling libmp4v2-1.5.0.2 in slackware64-current. It always fails with:
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make[2]: *** [rtphint.lo] Error 1make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Downloads/libmp4v2-1.5.0.1'make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Downloads/libmp4v2-1.5.0.1make: *** [all] Error 2
after this bug update, my laptop loose the sound, I have run alsaconf and nothing.If I run rc.alsa I get:Quote:Loading ALSA mixer settings: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
/usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1608: No soundcards found...
Regarding the latest update to -current, I decided to test installing it on a laptop from a usb stick (as I've done may times before). However this time the usb stick fails to boot as usual, hanging with the message "Could not find kernel image: linux". This isn't a problem with the usb stick, since if you mount the usbboot.img file as a loop device there is only 1 file on there, "ldlinux.sys", where you would usually find huge.s, initrd.img etc.
Have tried the 64-bit usbboot.img file from a couple of different mirrors and the result is the same. Have also looked in the usbboot.img from the 32-bit -current... this shows the usual set of files so looks to be OK.
I'm trying to compile tolua++ so that i can use lua in conky 1.7.2, however I am running into a problem. tolua++ defaults to looking for lua 5.0 libraries and I have lua 5.1 installed since that is what conky requires. According to the README tolua++ can use lua-5.1 but I not sure how to configure tulua++ to use those libraries since it uses scons. Here is a what the README says...
Compiling for lua 5.1
Starting from version 1.0.8pre1, tolua++ can be compiled with both lua 5.0 and
5.1. Both versions will output the same code, and the C API (tolua++.h) is the
same.
The build system is not yet ready to detect/decide when to compile for 5.1,
the easiest way right now is to add a file called 'custom.py' on the root of
the package, with the following:
## BEGIN custom.py
CCFLAGS = ['-I/usr/local/include/lua5.1', '-O2', '-ansi']
LIBPATH = ['/usr/local/lib']
LIBS = ['lua5.1', 'dl', 'm']
tolua_bin = 'tolua++5.1'
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after search and look at in vcar/log/pm-suspend.log I changed and quoted line to /usr/lib64/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging who are reference to command free
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Just got a new toy!
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Compaq/HP CQ60-615DX Notebook @Best Buy $369.00
Intel Celeron 900 (2.2Ghz)
250GB(7200rpm) HDD
2GB DDR2 SDRAM
8x DVD +/- R/RW Double layer
Win7 Home Premium (for the time being)
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I will keep Win7 for clients as this will be another laptop for that usage plus wanting to have a decent laptop for the rec room to do that style of work. Cheap way to service M$ clients without buying more personal license(s). So far no big deal with M$ Win7 but I need to have that pathway available to me.
My reason to buy this notebook rather then a netbook should be obvious, big enough for me to do what is necessary. I've got test beds to do the real work, netbooks just won't meet the needs as describe above. I purchased a Netbook for my wife. That one will be used while she's away to aid with the new Grandchild, a lot easier to carry than her old HP Laptop. If the Netbook is lost then no worry since it's cheaper than her HP.
I used qemu (qemu-0.9.1-i386-2_SBo) with Windows98SE as a guest, but since the last Slackware-current update of this version of qemu no longer works ...more precisely after "Mon Apr 8 06:58:48 UTC 2011" Update
Then installed the version "qemu-0.12.5.tar.gz" of Slackbuils, but this If the mouse is not detected in Windows 98 I also installed the version of the Alien "qemu-0.10.0-i486-1alien" without success Windows 98SE worked very well with the version of qemu-0.9.1-i386-2_SBo!I know the mouse is not detectable in Windows 98SE is a Bug [URL].. ps: I also have not had success in Slack 32. I use on a daily 64-bit version of Slackware .
Is there any way to install "VirtualBox-3.2.12-68302" in the "slackware64-current" (Kernel 2.6.38.7) ?
I have problems with the 4.0.x version of VB!
The version "VirtualBox-3.2.12-68302" works fine with my hardware!
I tested using "VB 3.2.12" and Slackware64-13.37 (kernel 2.6.37.6).
I get the warning when I try to install a guest OS in "VB 3.2.12" running slackware64-current ...
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There is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing
As root. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first.
This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary"
And still
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Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Slackware12.0.
The virtual machine 'Slackware12.0' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1.
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I have one machine where I have several versions installed on different partitions. The base partition (/dev/hda1) is Slack 12.1. On a spare partition (/dev/hdc4) I had installed Slackware64-current. Last week I slackpkg upgraded and installed the 2.6.32.2 kernel, and now that partition will not boot. I know that with the new kernels the hd* designation has been removed, and have already redone that fstab (accessing it from a different boot) to reflect the sd*. Here is the slack64 section of my lilo.conf:
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# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /other/spare4/boot/vmlinuz
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I have a spare harddrive that I want to store my videos on. They are in mp4 format. I'm using cfdisk to create a new clean partition on the drive. What filesystem type should i make it (linux,HPFS/NTFS,FAT16...)
View 2 Replies View Relatedafter i update to -current a few days ago. my slack partition cannot be mounted...and after that it's show 'kernel panic'.before i experience that problem, i have encounter an odd problem after i update my slack to -current, after i lock my screen and i want to unlock it, i cannot unlock it, it says 'i must kill kscreenlocker manually'. After that i reboot using root account. then i cannot enter my slackware again.kernel panic in boot screen.Kernel panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs (8,2)
View 5 Replies View Relatedi tried making a Linux window shared swap partition using cfdisk and printed the result to the partition table and then immediately restarted my machine but the boot loader showed me there was an error it could not mount the boot partition, i use mepis what could be the problem?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to set partition label using cfdisk?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI got a new laptop recently, it came with an ssd drive and preinstalled win7. I downloaded the latest gparted livecd and shrinkd the win partitionto make room for slackware (i'll need the win instaltion for a month or so). Slackware current runs very well on it. Except for the strange error when I run Lilo:
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root@tofiks:/boot# lilo
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Added Slack *
Warning: Device 0x0800: Inconsistent partition table, 2nd entry
CHS address in PT: 153:27:3 --> LBA (2315063)
LBA address in PT: 2459648 --> CHS (162:162:3)
Fatal: Either FIX-TABLE or IGNORE-TABLE must be specified
If not sure, first try IGNORE-TABLE (-P ignore)
When I add that option "-P ignore" it installs fine and I can boot.
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root@tofiks:/boot# lilo -P ignore
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Added Slack *
Warning: Device 0x0800: Inconsistent partition table, 2nd entry
CHS address in PT: 153:27:3 --> LBA (2315063)
LBA address in PT: 2459648 --> CHS (162:162:3)
Warning: The partition table is *NOT* being adjusted.
Added w7
3 warnings were issued.
My largest partition is currently NTFS, which I thought I could use as my Linux home directory. But when mounted to /home, "useradd -m" refuses to add new user directories. So I want to keep 10GB of that partition for Win/Linux documents and such, and use the other 42 GB for Linux users.
My question is rather easy for most of you: using cfdisk, can I just delete that partition, add two new partitions, then write the table to disk? Right now there's no data on that partition but writing the partition table seems risky--I don't want to mess with any of the other partitions (even though I can just reinstall Linux).
After I write the partition table CFDISK does not exit. If I chose quit or Q I lose all my changes. I am switching back to slack and I have done this many times before and dont recall ever having this problem. How do I exit and save my changes? I read a post about yes not registering because on the screen all you see is ye, the s is cutoff and that is the same thing I have. Could that be the problem? If it is a graphics issue I would think that the whole word yes would still register even though you cannot see the s.
View 10 Replies View RelatedSince Mac OS X, runs a BSD Linux at the core I think that this is the correct place to ask about this, but I need cfdisk to make some ext2 and swap partitions on some Compact Flash and old HDs without needing to download any LiveCD. There is any cfdisk that I can use on my Mac?
View 2 Replies View RelatedAlthough I use Slackware for many years I never understood something. During the creation of partitions, using cfdisk, there are 2 choices. "Beginning" and "End". What's the difference between these two choices? Does this have to do with older Lilo versions?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a need to recompile mesa. The --enable-32-bit option falls over every header and basic 32 bit lib, and won't compile. But if I try to install 32 bit packages, I could slap a 32 bit binary straight on top of my 64 bit one. What's the accepted way of doing this? I can't seem to find a package in Slackware 13.0
View 9 Replies View RelatedAnyone knows a slackbuild for netbeans 6.8 for slackware64?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs it just me or does the font rendering in Slackware64 13.37 look bad? It reminds me of the bad old days of having to recompile freetype with the then-patent-encumbered option to make the fonts look decent. When I print, everything looks normal. On screen it doesn't look right. I don't really know how to describe it other than it how things used to change after a freetype recompile. Is there anything major that changed between 13.1 and 13.37 WRT fonts in KDE, X, or freetype for that matter? FWIW, I did a clean install with a new .kde instead of using the old one.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've tried reinstalling Slackware64 13.1 to my PC a number of times over the past couple of days and I still have not been able to get it to boot.
Once it's installed I reboot and it tells me it can't find the operating system.
I've tried fdisk, cfdisk and GParted to set up the disk by deleting partitions and recreating them.
When I install and get to the section about installing LILO it says I have an OS/2 or Partition Magic boot manager on the drive, but there isn't. It asks if I want to install LILO in a compatible way with the boot manager and I say no, and install to the MBR. When I reboot it says it can't find the OS.
When I try to boot from the install DVD and get to the boot: prompt, I'll enter /dev/sda1 and it says there is no kernel.
Is there something else I'm missing?
I tried to recompile php with support for oracle extensions oci8.so. Got the source and slackbuild script from slackware repo and just add the following line to the slackbuild script. "--with-oci8=shared,instantclient,/opt/instantclient_11_2". I use instant client from oracle Version 11.2.0.2.0 from this page
After I run the script I got this error message
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/bin/sh /tmp/php-5.3.6/libtool --silent --preserve-dup-deps --mode=compile gcc -I/tmp/php-5.3.6/ext/fileinfo/libmagic -Iext/fileinfo/ -I/tmp/php-5.3.6/ext/fileinfo/ -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/tmp/php-5.3.6/include -I/tmp/php-5.3.6/main -I/tmp/php-5.3.6 -I/tmp/php-5.3.6/ext/date/lib -I/tmp/php-5.3.6/ext/ereg/regex -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/enchant -I/usr/include/freetype2 -
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I'm going to install Slackware 13.1 soon and I may also install the 32-bit compatibility libraries from Eric (Alien BoB).I'd like confirmation on the process of updating multilib Slackware when there's a security patch. I'm talking about running the -stable branch, by the way.Under the normal methods of updating (e.g. 'slackpkg upgrade-all' or using the script I developed to download a local mirror of the patches directory and install from there, or even doing it by hand), the regular 64-bit packages will get updated.However, the 32-bit compatibility versions of those files won't get updated. Right?So I'll need to download the new 32-bit patches, run the convertpkg-compat32 script on them, and then upgradepkg the new files.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhile trying to compile itcl, one of the error messages caused me to look inside /usr/lib64/tclConfig.sh. I found many paths that were in /tmp, such as...
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# String to pass to linker to pick up the Tcl library from its
# build directory.
TCL_BUILD_LIB_SPEC='-L/tmp/tcl8.5.8/unix -ltcl8.5'
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I am having a problem trying to compile rrdtool on slackware64-13. The problem is that the configure script keeps failing when it gets to the third party checks:
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configure:30114: WARNING: * I found a copy of pkgconfig, but there is no pangocairo.pc file around. You may want to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to point to its
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I am running Slackware64-13.1 on my laptop. I need to install skype on it. Searching this forum suggests that I install Alien Bob's multilib [URL] However, skype is the only 32-bit package I need and I will not need to compile any 32-bit software. So what is the minimal multilib install (the minimal set of 32-bit libraries) that make it possible for the 32-bit Skype to run on a 64-bit system? Will running
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ldd /usr/bin/skype
on my 32-bit desktop machine provide me that minimal list of 32-bit packages? Also, will the installation of these libraries somehow interefere with the original 64-bit system?
I've got an older HP Pavilion dv8000 laptop with ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 video. This worked fine out-of-the-box with 13.1. With 13.37 I can't get KDE desktop effects to work, glxgears reports about 50 fps, and the system can suspend but not resume. I have no xorg.conf at all. Here is the glxinfo and current Xorg log. Just to note, this is with Slackware64 13.37 with the multilib stuff installed.
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