Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

2018-11-26 Thread Dick Steffens
On 11/26/18 6:58 PM, King Beowulf wrote: <...> I clicked on the Firefox icon in KDE and saw the little red firefox bouncing on the screen. After about a minute or less, the bouncing stopped, but Firefox was not loaded. Looks like I broke something. in KDE, as a regular user (not root), open

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

2018-11-26 Thread King Beowulf
On 11/26/18 5:01 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/26/18 3:41 PM, King Beowulf wrote: > >> Hmmm... Firefox shouldn't try to sync or do anything on the network when >> launching. The version installed is old.  You should update to the >> newest one via slackpkg. > > I'm logged in as root. > > I

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

2018-11-26 Thread Dick Steffens
On 11/26/18 3:41 PM, King Beowulf wrote: Hmmm... Firefox shouldn't try to sync or do anything on the network when launching. The version installed is old. You should update to the newest one via slackpkg. I'm logged in as root. I ran slackpkg search firefox. It returned [ upgrade ]

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

2018-11-26 Thread King Beowulf
On 11/26/18 1:30 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/26/18 11:43 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: >> I switched from KDE to xfce to try it out. Then I started looking into >> how to install the programs I use. First I started up Firefox. I >> checked the box that makes Firefox my default browser. The mouse

[PLUG] centos/rhel 7 ttyUSB group ownership with FTDI adapter

2018-11-26 Thread Galen Seitz
Hi, When I connect a Prolific-based USB serial adapter to my CentOS 7 machine, the corresponding ttyUSB device has dialout group ownership. [root@toto ~]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* crw-rw. 1 root dialout 188, 0 Nov 26 14:15 /dev/ttyUSB0 However, when I connect an FTDI-based serial adapter, the

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

2018-11-26 Thread Dick Steffens
On 11/26/18 11:43 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: I switched from KDE to xfce to try it out. Then I started looking into how to install the programs I use. First I started up Firefox. I checked the box that makes Firefox my default browser. The mouse and track point stopped responding, and the screen

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

2018-11-26 Thread Dick Steffens
On 11/26/18 11:53 AM, King Beowulf wrote: You will want to use the mirror selector to help balance the bandwidth on the servers. It will select the best mirror for your geographic location as well as load balance. In /etc/slackpkg/mirrors un-comment # USE MIRRORS.SLACKWARE.COM (DO NOT USE FTP

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

2018-11-26 Thread King Beowulf
On 11/26/18 7:11 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/26/18 5:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: >> >>> Install completed successfully. >>> Logged in as root. >>> Ran halt. >>> Machine powered down. >>> Will start again tomorrow. >> >> Dick, >> >>   Glad it all

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

2018-11-26 Thread Dick Steffens
On 11/26/18 5:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:   When you again have time for it, go to /etc/slackpkg/ and edit the mirrors file to uncomment either the ftp or https address for slackware.osuosl.org. Then, from the command line as root run 'slackpkg update' and 'slackpkg upgrade-all'. Done. I

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

2018-11-26 Thread Dick Steffens
On 11/26/18 5:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: Install completed successfully. Logged in as root. Ran halt. Machine powered down. Will start again tomorrow. Dick,   Glad it all worked ... finally! Me, too. Once I get the laptop set up with all the stuff