Slackware 12 on Dell Vostro 1400 laptop
chris...@gmail.com
that I hope some might help resolve.
1. I have an Nvidia GeForce 8400M graphics driver. I downloaded and
ran the driver setup program off the nvidia website and I'm pleased to
say it's working fine. The problem I'm having is that when I "end
session" from KDE, it doesn't fall back into the command prompt;
instead it hangs in X. As a result I can't halt or reboot. Does
anybody know why this is happening?
2. Sound is working when I plug in the speakers, but the built in
speakers don't work. (Also, when I press the volume button nothing
happens.) With Ubuntu, the solution was simply to add the line
"options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1 model=3stack" to /etc/modprobe.d/
alsa-base, but this file doesn't exist in Slackware. I figure the
solution is similar, but I don't know what file to edit.
3. Fonts from non-KDE programs such as Open Office or Firefox or Gaim
are pretty huge and ugly-looking. Does anybody know how to adjust
these fonts?
If it's relevant, here's the output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory
Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI
Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2
EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) indefinetly
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2
EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E)
IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-
E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller
(rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device
0427 (rev a1)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
(rev 05)
03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/
MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller
(rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M
Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection (rev 02)
I haven't had a chance to take a shot at the Wifi card, but Ill report
any problems if there are any.
J.O. Aho
> Hello everyone. I'm having a few issues with installing this system
> that I hope some might help resolve.
>
> 1. I have an Nvidia GeForce 8400M graphics driver. I downloaded and
> ran the driver setup program off the nvidia website and I'm pleased to
> say it's working fine. The problem I'm having is that when I "end
> session" from KDE, it doesn't fall back into the command prompt;
> instead it hangs in X. As a result I can't halt or reboot. Does
> anybody know why this is happening?
How is X11 started?
> 2. Sound is working when I plug in the speakers, but the built in
> speakers don't work. (Also, when I press the volume button nothing
> happens.) With Ubuntu, the solution was simply to add the line
> "options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1 model=3stack" to /etc/modprobe.d/
> alsa-base, but this file doesn't exist in Slackware. I figure the
> solution is similar, but I don't know what file to edit.
If you have the directory /etc/modprobe.d then you can create a similar
file, I think you may need to call the file for alsa.
> 3. Fonts from non-KDE programs such as Open Office or Firefox or Gaim
> are pretty huge and ugly-looking. Does anybody know how to adjust
> these fonts?
You need to adjust the gnome2 font settings (or install KDE compatible
version of openoffice), or you can install gtk-qt-enigne which makes
gtk2 application to use KDE settings.
> I haven't had a chance to take a shot at the Wifi card, but Ill report
> any problems if there are any.
Don't think you will have trouble with that part, there is a native driver.
--
//Aho
Mark South
> chris...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello everyone. I'm having a few issues with installing this system
>> that I hope some might help resolve.
>>
>> 1. I have an Nvidia GeForce 8400M graphics driver. I downloaded and ran
>> the driver setup program off the nvidia website and I'm pleased to say
>> it's working fine. The problem I'm having is that when I "end session"
>> from KDE, it doesn't fall back into the command prompt; instead it
>> hangs in X. As a result I can't halt or reboot. Does anybody know why
>> this is happening?
>
> How is X11 started?
And what driver modules are being loaded? Are there possibly some left
over that only relate to the nv driver.
>> 2. Sound is working when I plug in the speakers, but the built in
>> speakers don't work. (Also, when I press the volume button nothing
>> happens.) With Ubuntu, the solution was simply to add the line "options
>> snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1 model=3stack" to /etc/modprobe.d/ alsa-base,
>> but this file doesn't exist in Slackware. I figure the solution is
>> similar, but I don't know what file to edit.
>
> If you have the directory /etc/modprobe.d then you can create a similar
> file, I think you may need to call the file for alsa.
In my Slackware 12 installation the file is called
/etc/modprobe.d/sound
>> 3. Fonts from non-KDE programs such as Open Office or Firefox or Gaim
>> are pretty huge and ugly-looking. Does anybody know how to adjust these
>> fonts?
>
> You need to adjust the gnome2 font settings (or install KDE compatible
> version of openoffice), or you can install gtk-qt-enigne which makes
> gtk2 application to use KDE settings.
Also look in the KDE Control Centre, under Appearnace & Themes, Fonts and
play with anti-aliasing and the force DPI settings.
>> I haven't had a chance to take a shot at the Wifi card, but Ill report
>> any problems if there are any.
>
> Don't think you will have trouble with that part, there is a native
> driver.
It doesn't appear to come with Slack itself (AFAICT from looking at the
modules list) so there may be a little research to be done.
Night0wl
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:03:46 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:
>
>> chris...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Hello everyone. I'm having a few issues with installing this system
>>> that I hope some might help resolve.
>>>
>>> 1. I have an Nvidia GeForce 8400M graphics driver. I downloaded and ran
>>> the driver setup program off the nvidia website and I'm pleased to say
>>> it's working fine. The problem I'm having is that when I "end session"
>>> from KDE, it doesn't fall back into the command prompt; instead it
>>> hangs in X. As a result I can't halt or reboot. Does anybody know why
>>> this is happening?
>> How is X11 started?
>
> And what driver modules are being loaded? Are there possibly some left
> over that only relate to the nv driver.
>
>>> 2. Sound is working when I plug in the speakers, but the built in
>>> speakers don't work. (Also, when I press the volume button nothing
>>> happens.) With Ubuntu, the solution was simply to add the line "options
>>> snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1 model=3stack" to /etc/modprobe.d/ alsa-base,
>>> but this file doesn't exist in Slackware. I figure the solution is
>>> similar, but I don't know what file to edit.
>> If you have the directory /etc/modprobe.d then you can create a similar
>> file, I think you may need to call the file for alsa.
>
> In my Slackware 12 installation the file is called
>
> /etc/modprobe.d/sound
If its doing what my system (Ubuntu) did in release 7.04, OSS won't work
without some serious code work. Y'might wanna see if you can install
ALSA. It cleaned everything right up for me...
chris...@gmail.com
> > How is X11 started?
>
> And what driver modules are being loaded? Are there possibly some left
> over that only relate to the nv driver.
>
I don't know, but it does print the nvidia logo to the screen at
startup of x.
> > If you have the directory /etc/modprobe.d then you can create a similar
> > file, I think you may need to call the file for alsa.
>
> In my Slackware 12 installation the file is called
>
> /etc/modprobe.d/sound
>
so how do I do I point alsamixer to the file I created called "etc/
modprobe.d/sound"?
>
> > You need to adjust the gnome2 font settings (or install KDE compatible
> > version of openoffice), or you can install gtk-qt-enigne which makes
> > gtk2 application to use KDE settings.
>
I built the code from kde-look.org and followed the instructions, and
it worked. Thanks for the advice there!
chris...@gmail.com
J.O. Aho
>>> How is X11 started?
>> And what driver modules are being loaded? Are there possibly some left
>> over that only relate to the nv driver.
> I don't know, but it does print the nvidia logo to the screen at
> startup of x.
Do you have a link to your xorg.conf? (please don't pos it here, give a link
where those who are interested in help can go and see it).
>>> If you have the directory /etc/modprobe.d then you can create a similar
>>> file, I think you may need to call the file for alsa.
>> In my Slackware 12 installation the file is called
>> /etc/modprobe.d/sound
> so how do I do I point alsamixer to the file I created called "etc/
> modprobe.d/sound"?
You don't, those settings are for the time when the module is loaded.
--
//Aho