Re: [PLUG] Need New Computer

Out of curiosity, whats the model of the computer? In addition to the CPU/mobo you have to factor everything else. HDD wifi card etc. $700 laptops can sometimes be optioned up to $1500 when you buy them new, so refurbished prices are a free-for-all. Freegeek installs whatever parts

Re: [PLUG] Determining if a newer version of a Slackpkg is available

On 2/26/19 7:48 AM, King Beowulf wrote: On 2/25/19 9:52 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: Considering how long it's taken nvidia to fix, I think you are allowed to be cranky. I see a bunch of new downloads on their website, did they finally fix it? Or do I need to place an order for a Vega 56? You

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

On 2/26/19 4:43 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Russell Senior wrote: I gave you the next step in my first email:  "Or, failing everything else, use whatever facility there is to factory reset it and then reconfigure to your liking." Okay, Russell. I'll do that this coming

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Convert .wav to .mp3 in Slackware 14.2

/ffmpeg/ ) then you probably want to read it. Just whatever you do, don't try to build inkscape. It's not worth the pain and suffering. On 2/25/19 9:49 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: On 2/25/19 9:44 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: lame is a build-time dependency of ffmpeg, so did you install lame before

Re: [PLUG] Determining if a newer version of a Slackpkg is available

Considering how long it's taken nvidia to fix, I think you are allowed to be cranky. I see a bunch of new downloads on their website, did they finally fix it? Or do I need to place an order for a Vega 56? On 2/25/19 6:17 PM, King Beowulf wrote: On 2/25/19 10:23 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Convert .wav to .mp3 in Slackware 14.2

lame is a build-time dependency of ffmpeg, so did you install lame before you ran the ffmpeg.SlackBuild script? Also, the SBo script doesn't auto-detect these dependencies, since the list is huge and it doesn't want to make licensing assumptions. See the SBo page for details, the list is as

Re: [PLUG] CCC

On 2/23/19 5:48 PM, Russell Senior wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 4:51 PM Ben Koenig wrote: I'm really not trying to be mean here, just pointing out that this is one of those moments where throwing out a random commandline tool is not helpful. Hopefully this comes across as constructive

Re: [PLUG] CCC

everything. If you have FreeNAS exporting an NFS share you can just select that folder as your target and click "start". I bet gnome based desktops have an equivalent utility, but you'll have to ask gnome for the name of it :-) On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 4:50 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > > I

Re: [PLUG] CCC

I'm really not trying to be mean here, just pointing out that this is one of those moments where throwing out a random commandline tool is not helpful. Hopefully this comes across as constructive critisism. Backup tools like CCC are essentially dd on STEROIDS. They provide a huge amount of

Re: [PLUG] Need new mobile phone; Treos no longer supported

I'm down for show and tell at the next PLUG clinic if you want to see it before you buy one :-) On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 4:32 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2019, Galen Seitz wrote: > > > I am in no way in love with Verizon, but given the amount of time you seem > > to spend in the

Re: [PLUG] Need new mobile phone; Treos no longer supported

I have a Nokia 6.1. It's a very nice phone. 2 years of guaranteed security updates and absolutely ZERO crapware. It's still google (which kinda sucks) but by far better than most of the stupidity you get with Samsung/HTC/LG/Motorola. Go for an Android One phone. For Android One Google is taking

Re: [PLUG] Add gmail like security enhancements to rainloop?

The authentication systems used by these websites are often based on OpenID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID https://openid.net/ They provide a "framework" that you can use to implement a solid authentication. That way you don't need to reinvent all the wheels. Google and Facebook act as

Re: [PLUG] The Tragedy of systemd

On 02/08/2019 09:57 PM, tgrom.autom...@nuegia.net wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 16:34:48 -0600 Carl Karsten wrote: Hello lists, It's hard to do linux without wondering some things about systemd, this talk may answer some questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo Please stop with

Re: [PLUG] Slideshow-like image viewer for XFCE on Slackware?

On 02/09/2019 06:51 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 12:35:00 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: On Sat, 9 Feb 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: Neither computer has ever had any other desktop than Xfce, except for random pieces needed to install applications. Geeqie was nowhere to

Re: [PLUG] Slideshow-like image viewer for XFCE on Slackware?

2/8/19 10:49 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Geeqie is the plain image viewer for GTK desktops > > That works. Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > ___ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinu

Re: [PLUG] Slideshow-like image viewer for XFCE on Slackware?

Geeqie is the plain image viewer for GTK desktops Gwenview is part of KDE4, thus integrates well if you are using a KDE desktop. The default should be geeqie in XFCE. Double click on an image like you would in ubuntu and check out the options. It does have a slideshow mode. On Fri, Feb 8, 2019

Re: [PLUG] The Tragedy of systemd

Some people have valid reasons for not adopting shit software. But let's not talk about that. Lets talk about alleged death threats and "fear of change". On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 5:42 PM Russell Senior wrote: > > Uh-oh: https://youtu.be/o_AIw9bGogo?t=1691 > > ;-) > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 2:36

Re: [PLUG] Attempt to install jdk on Slackware Laptop

The slackbuild is for JDK 8, they give a download link even though it won't work. jdk-8u202-linux-i586.tar.gz (ddae517017646fc180d5241260d515e8) Note the version, you downloaded

Re: [PLUG] question on linux tool to clean URLs

eaning you want. > > Likely, you get 90% of the way Judy cutting off everything after the ? In > the URL ... Including the ? > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 4:52 PM Ben Koenig > > I don't know of a tool that does this, but URL formatting is common for a > > lot of programming task

Re: [PLUG] question on linux tool to clean URLs

I don't know of a tool that does this, but URL formatting is common for a lot of programming tasks. If you know python, setting up a small script that returns specific pieces of a URL is trivial. https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.parse.html#module-urllib.parse Qt5 (and probably GTK too )

Re: [PLUG] Restoring system to a state before update - grub and btrfs snapshots

I used to do this with LILO in the old days. You could load several kernels into your MBR, and I usually had a spare "recovery" kernel in there that I knew worked as a secondary boot option. When updating on Slackware the last step is to run /sbin/lilo which would update my default entry. With

Re: [PLUG] Fixiing Slackware upgrade mistake

I'm kind of curious to see if Ed's nvidia-switch script actually works in the real world :-P On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 11:07 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 2/5/19 6:10 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > You can't revert to the previous kernel using the official repos. > > > > What you can do

Re: [PLUG] Fixiing Slackware upgrade mistake

re was just an issue specific to google earth. The bug has already been fixed, but nvidia still hasn't rolled that into their legacy drivers yet. On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 12:43 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 2/3/19 7:58 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > On 2/3/19 3:11 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: >

Re: [PLUG] Fixiing Slackware upgrade mistake

Dick Steffens wrote: > On 2/3/19 12:01 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Responding publicly now, since I found the problem. It's an nvidia bug, > > they are supposedly tracking/fixing the problem on their end. > > > > For anyone who is curious, I did a duckduckgo search with

Re: [PLUG] Fixiing Slackware upgrade mistake

nvidia.com/default/topic/1046451/linux/linux-4-4-168-and-nvidia-linux-x86_64-410-93-and-get_user_pages-/ it matches the errors in the log you sent me. On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 11:39 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > Make sure the kernel version you are running is the kernel version you > have i

Re: [PLUG] Fixiing Slackware upgrade mistake

posted are the result of the the problem. I need to see more of the log to know what actually happened. Feel free to send me a direct email with it attached as a text file. On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 6:57 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 2/2/19 5:04 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > If you run

Re: [PLUG] Fixiing Slackware upgrade mistake

If you run lsmod you will probably notice that the nvidia driver module is not loaded. At least it shouldn't be. When you install the nvidia driver (or any 3rd party driver) it has to build a kernel module for that kernel. When you upgrade your kernel to a new version, the nvidia module must be

Re: [PLUG] Warcraft II BNE v 2 on Fedora 29...

Try enabling 'Virtual Desktop' in winecfg. I think it's the "Graphics" tab. This will create a window of the resolution you specify (so 1920x1080) and then place the application window within that. Since Warcraft will be sandboxed it might detect the correct window size. If not, you will end up

[PLUG] Using the internet for good

People like to blame modern technology and the internet for causing the worlds problems. I'd like to share a case of how the internet can be used to SOLVE problems. For some older PLUG users, you may remember tech tv and "The Screensavers". It was a broadcast television show. I was pretty

Re: [PLUG] FYI - ROSEBURG , Oregon HAS FIBER IN ~50% OF COUNTY PER

responsibility for your Digital success, or failure? Have you ever used a computer? or are you just another one of those russian/chinese/iranian trolls that pose as American citizens? On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 1:36 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 12:28 PM Mike C. wrote: > >> "I

Re: [PLUG] FYI - ROSEBURG , Oregon HAS FIBER IN ~50% OF COUNTY PER

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 12:28 PM Mike C. wrote: > "If Roseburg can do it , Portland should have accomplished this too!The > only thing affecting this lack of Fiber in PDX is entrenched interests - " > > I'll entertain this a bit as I think about it a lot. As I suspect you > well know, rarely

Re: [PLUG] Seagate 8Gb Backup Plus Hub using Ubuntu 18.04

Hi Mitch, There's no wrong way to backup an ubuntu laptop, but there are some questions that are good to answer before jumping into the deep end. Are you looking to backup everything on your laptop, or just certain files? Also, how often are you going to back up your laptop? Do you want the

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware Laptop

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:08 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > You don't want to remove any intel driver packages. > > The errors you received are very specific in their vagueness. > > Google Earth ships with all the libraries it needs to function. This > includes a full Qt5 framework.

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware Laptop

You don't want to remove any intel driver packages. The errors you received are very specific in their vagueness. Google Earth ships with all the libraries it needs to function. This includes a full Qt5 framework. This kind of thing gets very complex and often ends up doing wierd things. I need

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware Laptop

LOL NEVERMIND. You can uninstall libdxtn. How did you install Google Earth? SBo? On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 8:20 AM Dick Steffens On 1/24/19 10:54 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > So it's doing the same thing that your desktop was doing with the nouveau > > driver? Hmmm.. >

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware Laptop

So it's doing the same thing that your desktop was doing with the nouveau driver? Hmmm.. I wonder if they are using S3_TC for 3d texture compression... Install this package and see if it helps. http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/libraries/libtxc_dxtn/ On Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 5:59 PM Dick

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware Laptop

The issue we saw at the clinic was definitely nvidia specific (or nouveau) and the fix will not apply to this laptop. What is the problem? Are you seeing the same issue? On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 1:30 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > At the clinic we got Google Earth to work on my desktop machine. I

Re: [PLUG] [Update] -- Re: Copying all partitions of a drive to single partition/directory?

I think Richard is running out of backup-related topics on the internet. Nothing left to research :( This might be a good time to try out some of these "back up methods" you've been researching. On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:17 AM Louis Kowolowski wrote: > On Jan 23, 2019, at 9:07 AM, Richard

Re: [PLUG] Installing clamtk on Slackware 14.2

perl-glib has 2 dependencies. Did you install those before installing the glib module? 14.2 > Perl > perl-glib (1.328) perl-glib (perl module) This module provides perl access to Glib and GLib's GObject

Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 9:00:42 AM PST wes wrote: > The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or > questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful > direction. Anyone in Vancouver heading to Portland for this clinic? I could use a lift.

Re: [PLUG] Installing nvidia-legacy340 on Slackware 14.2

think it's possible to troubleshoot multimonitor problems with email. The errors are always visual. On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 9:18 PM Dick Steffens On 1/16/19 6:50 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 6:38:09 PM PST Dick Steffens wrote: > >> On 1/16/19 5:56 PM, B

Re: [PLUG] Installing nvidia-legacy340 on Slackware 14.2

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 6:38:09 PM PST Dick Steffens wrote: > On 1/16/19 5:56 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Time permitted this afternoon. > > > >> I rebooted to run level 3. > > > > How are you rebooting to runlevel 3? > > Powering down and bac

Re: [PLUG] Installing nvidia-legacy340 on Slackware 14.2

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 5:43:02 PM PST Dick Steffens wrote: > On 1/16/19 4:23 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > On 1/16/19 4:12 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > >> You are trying to fix the problem without any knowledge of what the > >> problem is. > >> This is why I

Re: [PLUG] Installing nvidia-legacy340 on Slackware 14.2

On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 7:22:04 PM PST Dick Steffens wrote: > On 1/15/19 3:20 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > I'm trying to downgrade from the nVidia legacy 390 driver to the > > legacy 340 driver. To do so I first downloaded the > > nvidia-legacy340-kernel.tar.gz, and unpacked it. Then I

Re: [PLUG] Newly installed Fedora 28/29 severe lag

On Monday, January 14, 2019 5:39:30 PM PST John Bartley K7AAY j...@503bartley.com wrote: > Installed with Ubuntu 18.04.1 AOK, no problem. Replaced it with Fedora > 28.1.1 Wkstn, severe lg on kybd & mouse. Same with Fedora 29.1.2 > Wkstn. Fedora Server doesn't even start Anaconda, just

Re: [PLUG] nVidia config issue

I did not say you should create the settings file in your home directory. Nor did I suggest or advise it in any way. On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 9:45 PM Dick Steffens On 1/8/19 9:17 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Ah ok, so you got the driver going. Technically it is working the its > &

Re: [PLUG] nVidia config issue

Dick Steffens wrote: > On 1/8/19 8:22 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > <...> > > > > I'm trying to figure out what's broken here and I just can't see it. > > > > The subject of this thread was something about problems logging in. > > > > Turned out to be an i

Re: [PLUG] Slackware login pain

to me like everything is working the way it's supposed On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:54 AM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 1/7/19 3:37 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Wait a second why is nvidia-settings trying to create an xorg.conf > > file? I thought the program was nvidia-xconfig .. > &

Re: [PLUG] Slackware login pain

Wait a second why is nvidia-settings trying to create an xorg.conf file? I thought the program was nvidia-xconfig .. Are you running nvidia-settings from a graphical terminal? With X running? On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 3:15 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 1/7/19 2:59 PM, Ben Koenig wr

Re: [PLUG] Slackware login pain

the blacklist file prevents Nouveau from loading, but if you need to double check that it actually worked you use 'lsmod' I pipe the output to grep to shorten the list: $ lsmod |grep nouveau This will output a single line if it finds the nouveau kernel module, or do nothing if nouveau is not

Re: [PLUG] chown issue

old school unix philosophy is focused on multiuser mainframes. For this reason, the more basic utilities such as 'adduser' do not create a group for a new user. All users are part of the "users" group. For desktop system that emulate the way mac and windows handle file ownership, the user

Re: [PLUG] TLDR++, a tool to search, study, and practice Linux commands on the fly...

> others will too? > > To that end, tldr-pages led me to discovering various related projects, > listed here: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/README.md > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 11:54 Ben Koenig > Given that TLDR is hosted on Microsoft servers, why should I use it

Re: [PLUG] TLDR++, a tool to search, study, and practice Linux commands on the fly...

Thanks for sharing, one question though... Given that TLDR is hosted on Microsoft servers, why should I use it? Linux is a competing environment. I find it reasonable to question the validity of any Linux documentation hosted by a competing platform. In addition, it is written in golang. Again,

Re: [PLUG] Setting up nVidia driver on Slackware

, Jan 3, 2019 at 9:40 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 1/3/19 5:55 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > First, which nvidia card do you have? Model #? > > From lshw: > > > id: > display > description:VGA compatible controller > product:GF119 [GeForce GT 610] >

Re: [PLUG] Unlock Keyring

That keyring thing is annoying. There's usually no harm in clicking cancel. You can probably disable the autostart for it. Actually, disabling autostart for the keyring is probably the same as disabling autostart for skype... On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 5:06 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > One of the

Re: [PLUG] Setting up nVidia driver on Slackware

loaded drivers, look through the list for the following modules: "nvidia" "nouveau" It's possible you see one, the other, both, or neither depending on what is going wrong here. On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 9:49 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 1/2/19 6:07 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: >

Re: [PLUG] ssh -X "Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:"

Ran some DDG searches, found a few old articles, maybe give this one a read? https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/x-forwarding-in-slack-over-ssh-unable-to-open-display-451697-print/ On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 11:39 AM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 1/2/19 11:26 AM, David wrote: > >

Re: [PLUG] Setting up nVidia driver on Slackware

$DISPLAY is set by X11, you shouldn't be setting it. It's one of those things that you only set if you know that you need to set it. Which desktop are you using? XFCE? On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 3:21 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > This my be related to my ssh -X "Could not parse arguments: Cannot open

Re: [PLUG] Installing LibreOffice on Slackware

On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 3:25 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > When I turned back to get the text of the error message, > it was gone, and the process was continuing. It finished and I have > installed LibreOffice. It works. > > Thanks for the help. .party's over... wait 17 minutes aaand.

Re: [PLUG] Installing LibreOffice on Slackware

Cool. Downloading anything from oracle sucks. It's as if they are actively trying to make people NOT buy their stuff. On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 3:25 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 12/31/18 3:03 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > From the JDK page: > > https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1

Re: [PLUG] Installing LibreOffice on Slackware

ens wrote: > On 12/31/18 2:57 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Hold on a second... there's a reason why you got that error and if you > run > > off with workarounds it will only cause you pain and suffering in the > end. > > > > I'll have a better explanation a bit b

Re: [PLUG] Installing LibreOffice on Slackware

Hold on a second... there's a reason why you got that error and if you run off with workarounds it will only cause you pain and suffering in the end. I'll have a better explanation a bit but I want to throw that statement out there before people start sending you into lala land On Mon,

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Firefox out of date

wrote: > On 12/31/18 9:26 AM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > These are mostly security updates that it pulls in. Set a schedule based > on > > your wants and needs. > > > > Some people do weekly. Others monthly. In some cases users will check for > > updates and make a d

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Firefox out of date

Slackware pushes out security updates, and the importance of these updates, check the changelog http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=x86_64 On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 5:56 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 12/29/18 5:23 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Nice! most people write little shel

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Firefox out of date

M Dick Steffens wrote: > On 12/29/18 4:59 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Comedy of errors. > > > > First, you wanted to update firefox, so you ran the slackpkg upgrade-all > > command as suggested by another user here. > > Right. > > > This pulled in a new firefox, i

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Firefox out of date

. On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 4:34 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 12/29/18 3:52 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > There are a few things wrong with that config, change it to the > following: > > > > chooser=simple > > delay=1 > > timeout=1 > > # > > image=vmlinuz-hug

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Firefox out of date

copy/paste into a new file and copy it over the existing elilo.conf. On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:54 AM Dick Steffens wrote: > Finally have some un-distracted time > > On 12/27/18 1:00 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Yes, you are on the correct path with that solution. > > >

Re: [PLUG] A survey of backup philosophies/methods?

You seem to be looking for a reliable work space, not a backup. Low-level OS hacking requires a scratch system isolated from the rest of the world. If your plan is to learn about the "guts of Linux" then at some point you will peel away at the subsystems used for networking. It would be a shame

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Firefox out of date

hu, Dec 27, 2018 at 5:46 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 12/27/18 1:00 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Yes, you are on the correct path with that solution. > > > > You can boot from the installer ... > > Using the install 14.2 USB stick I get a GRUB menu that lets me boot > Sl

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Firefox out of date

c 27, 2018 at 9:49 AM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 12/27/18 8:21 AM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Running lilo and installing a bootloader to your MBR will not impact UEFI > > booting *unless* the BIOS has been set to prefer Legacy booting. MBR > > bootloaders (like GRUB and Lilo) do n

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Firefox out of date

Running lilo and installing a bootloader to your MBR will not impact UEFI booting *unless* the BIOS has been set to prefer Legacy booting. MBR bootloaders (like GRUB and Lilo) do not touch the EFI boot partition and will be ignored if you configure the BIOS to ignore them. Dick, do you have your

Re: [PLUG] LAMP on Slackware

It was referring to MariaDB. Since MariaDB functions as a drop-in replacement, all launch scripts and programs follow the same naming convention. This allows compatibility with existing scripts and programs. Anything looking for "mysql" will end up using MariaDB with minimal differences. In

Re: [PLUG] Next Slackware Installation

Yes that is correct. You will select /dev/sda2 for your "root" partition. The installer will autodetect your EFI and swap partitions and prompt when it is ready to set them up. On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 1:01 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > I'm about to start installing Slackware 14.2 on my extra

Re: [PLUG] Slackware on X200 - buttons

xev is a good way to identify key press events, and the relevant info to make them do stuff. Once you figure out which events need to be mapped, you need another tool to set that. Someone else actually posed this same exact question to the PLUG list not long ago, so the answer might not be that

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

First, Pepperflash is chrome specific. That's it, that's the reality and there is NOTHING else. Pepperflash is a GOOGLE specific product intended for use with other GOOGLE products. Firefox is a MOZILLA product. The difference and why pepperflash isn't working should be obvious. After >10 emails

Re: [PLUG] Slackware on X200 - buttons

KDE is very good about capturing button event and handling them. XFCE not so much. You can assign functions for those keys, typically you will want to identify which keycode is being triggered, and then map them to various functions. There isn't a lot of standardization for laptops in this area,

Re: [PLUG] USB on VirtualBox on Slackware

Options will be greyed out if the VM is currently running. First make sure the VM is shut down and closed, and then go into settings. A lot of options are disabled because you need to change them BEFORE you run the VM. On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 2:56 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > Running Win2K in

Re: [PLUG] Play a video from the command line?

Dec 13, 2018 at 3:07 AM Ben Koenig wrote: > > > mplayer also has a -display option to set the display variable. > > On my system modifying DISPLAY turned my entire screen green. mostly > green. > > > > mplayer -display :0 /path/to/video > > > > I'm not re

Re: [PLUG] Play a video from the command line?

mplayer also has a -display option to set the display variable. On my system modifying DISPLAY turned my entire screen green. mostly green. mplayer -display :0 /path/to/video I'm not really sure why DISPLAY=:1 mplayer corrupted my entire screen... On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 6:54 PM Bill Barry

Re: [PLUG] Problem with Google Earth Install

occur on any distro, just more common for recent Ubuntu versions (>12.04). On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 8:33 PM Michael Barnes wrote: > On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 7:32 AM Ben Koenig wrote: > > > The problem in that screenshot may not be related to Google earth. > > > > It looks

Re: [PLUG] Problem with Google Earth Install

The problem in that screenshot may not be related to Google earth. It looks like an issue with the GUI rendering system. Unity uses compositing (with GPU acceleration) to render all windows, but so does Google Earth. So the points of failure could be any of the following: 1) google earth was

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

My build order for VirtualBox using the SBo scripts would be as follows: 1) acpica 2) virtualbox-kernel 3) virtualbox At this point I would test to make sure everything is working. If yes, build and install virtualbox-extension-pack for other features. You don't need the 'addon' packages, those

Re: [PLUG] KDE (?) Middle Button with Trackpoint

mouse/keyboard settings are part of the "Input Devices" Settings module. So K Menu -> System Settings -> Input devices. There's a tab for mouse settings on the left. On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 9:44 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > I had the opportunity to use the Slackware laptop today. There's a >

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Wireless

That's a good question. User-friendly network management tools involve 2 pieces. This is because on Linux platforms you need to be root to configure network devices. So for Network Manager, the 2 components are as follows: - The network manager daemon: this is a background process that runs as

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

they handle those as background installs. On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 3:47 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/28/18 3:38 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > I thought you were running Slackware 14.2, > > You're right. > > > the link you posted says 14.1. > > That version of virtual

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

Even if you removed your custom rules, there might still be a default rule that triggers for that device. Maybe try searching through the config files in rules.d for the vendor:product IDs of that particular adapter. On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 2:32 PM Galen Seitz wrote: > Hi, > > When I connect a

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

I thought you were running Slackware 14.2, the link you posted says 14.1. That version of virtualbox is also a bit older, looks like they have moved to 5.x. I've also never used pkgs.org. I haven't actually heard of anyone who does so I've never really looked at them. Before getting fancy with

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

18 at 4:28 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/25/18 4:07 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Slow it down. There are instructions on the ISO to write it to a USB > stick. > > If you mount the iso you can read about your options in the > > usb-and-pxe-installers folder on the installat

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

Slow it down. There are instructions on the ISO to write it to a USB stick. If you mount the iso you can read about your options in the usb-and-pxe-installers folder on the installation media. There are a few different options. - raw DD - using the iso2usb script on the iso. It sounds like your

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 7:10 PM Tomas K wrote: > If I'd to make a bet - I'd be betting on some /lib versus /lib64 snafu > while running from live cd/dvd/usb > > If that is so perhaps binding the missing lib or fixing broken link > could fix it. > > Tomas > Accepted. If you are wrong then you

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

The problem is that even though you appear to have the program it doesn't want to find it. WHAT??? I think your install might be broken, but before I declare that post the output of the following commands: ls -l /mnt/hd/ (making sure your filesystem looks like a root filesystem) ldd

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

Skip the second argument then, just run "chroot /mnt/hd" Always make sure you are root and check for spaces and whatnot. On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 6:33 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/25/18 6:16 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > check for bash in the mounted filesystem: > > &

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

OK so I fixed my BIOS clock and have returned to the present day Remember that the chroot command is looking for /bin/bash in the NEW root, not the current root. So from your live environment you have to check with this command: ls -l /mnt/hd/bin/bash It's like when we were looking for init,

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

check for bash in the mounted filesystem: ls -l /mnt/hd/bin/bash It's trying to load from the mount. Your ls command lists from the running environment On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 6:12 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/25/18 5:53 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Chroot is often used when install

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

ecause I forgot most things about Lilo long > time ago. The Linuxes I use boot using Grub for long time and/or boot > using UEFI directly these days. > > Hope it makes sense. > Tomas > > On Sat, 2018-11-24 at 17:26 -0800, Dick Steffens wrote: > > On 11/25/18 5:06 PM, Ben Koenig wr

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

ges BEFORE we reboot because getting back in here sucks. On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 5:27 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/25/18 5:06 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Ah ok. I think I know what is happening. > > > > I'm assuming here that your filesystem on /dev/sda2 is functional and

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

I think your bootloader is looking at the wrong partition. What is your partition layout? Where is your slackware root partition? What does your lilo.conf look like? On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 4:42 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/23/18 4:19 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2018, Dick

Re: [PLUG] HOWTO: Spelling Russell's name.

Pronunciation errors are what get me. Koenig is often pronounced "koe-ing". My last name also has different pronounciations for the same spelling. To make things worse I use an online alias that millenials are not able to parse properly. It seems like reading comprehension has failed among

Re: [PLUG] stopping facebook

It's just peer pressure guys. Didn't you pay attention to the videos in school? "Just say NO" when confronted with drugs, alcohol, sex, and facebook. On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 4:49 PM m wrote: > I deleted my Facebook account several months ago (should have done it years > before), and so far,

Re: [PLUG] GUI Rename Oddity

I feel like I've seen something like that before. That said GUI bugs are notoriously difficult to identify via email. The G stands for Graphical, so the only way to see and understand it is to look at the problem with your own eyes. I would not be surprised if your GUI is doing something funky,

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