Two Questions

[Ben]

OK, I have installed ZipSlack on my old computer and I am about to install Slackware 8.1 on my good computer.

One problem: ZipSlack doesnt have X. I downloaded X's core files and the required "misc" font pack as well as the optional "100dpi" font pack and installed them. I typed up good old startx and the screen acted like it was starting X, but it soon exited back to the prompt and gave me an error about having no configured screens available. Well, being a linux newbie, i went and downloaded GNOME as well as some extras (GEdit, some multimedia programs, some Gnome games) and installed everything then attempted to run startx again. Once again, it failed. I went through both the config file for X and Gnome and found nothing which would seem like it might have anything to do with the problem. I came up empty-handed. After hours of probing through every freaking file i could edit that had to do with X or Gnome, i still came up with nothing. Can anyone tell me whats wrong?

BTW, ZipSlack doesnt have the "make" program. Where might I get it?

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Question 2

Can anyone tell me where I can get a command line mp3 player for linux?

Thanks,
Ben

[Wojtek]

when you say that startx failed, what error message or symptom do you get to say it failed?

[Ben]

Originally posted by Wojtek
when you say that startx failed, what error message or symptom do you get to say it failed?
Well, that computer is at my mothers house, and I just got to my fathers house, so this may not be accurate since I cant try to retrieve the error.

I think it was "Error: Screens found, but none have a usable configuration"

[TheSpaceDude]

OK, I have installed ZipSlack on my old computer and I am about to install Slackware 8.1 on my good computer.

One problem: ZipSlack doesnt have X. I downloaded X's core files and the required "misc" font pack as well as the optional "100dpi" font pack and installed them. I typed up good old startx and the screen acted like it was starting X, but it soon exited back to the prompt and gave me an error about having no configured screens available. Well, being a linux newbie, i went and downloaded GNOME as well as some extras (GEdit, some multimedia programs, some Gnome games) and installed everything then attempted to run startx again. Once again, it failed. I went through both the config file for X and Gnome and found nothing which would seem like it might have anything to do with the problem. I came up empty-handed. After hours of probing through every freaking file i could edit that had to do with X or Gnome, i still came up with nothing. Can anyone tell me whats wrong?

Run xf86config and make sure everythings set up right for your video card/monitor.


BTW, ZipSlack doesnt have the "make" program. Where might I get it?


http://www.slackware.org/packages/index.php?version=current&cpu=i386&series=d

GNU make-3.79.1 This is the GNU implementation of make, which was written by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. The purpose of the make utility is to determine automatically which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issue the commands to recompile them. This is needed to compile just about any major C program, including the Linux kernel.

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slakware/d1/gmake.tgz


Question 2

Can anyone tell me where I can get a command line mp3 player for linux?


http://www.slackware.org/packages/index.php?version=current&cpu=i386&series=ap

MP3 players This package contains two command-line MP3 players for Linux, amp-0.7.6 and mpg123-0.59r.

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slakware/ap1/mp3.tgz

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[Ben]

Wow, thanks man!!