warpman999@yahoo.com wrote:
> 1. When I ask the system to shutdown it doesn't do it. I have to do it
> manually.

What do you mean for "Manually" ?

You should to execute the commands as root user; if you want to let
users of "users" group to run the commands, you can use the utility
"sudo" with a configuration like this (man sudo):

%users ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown
%users ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt
%users ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot

If you use Xfce, add also this line to sudo configuration file:
%users ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper


> 2. My USB mouse doesn't work.

I have this section in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf (a bulk 3 wheels optical
mouse) :

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USBMouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
InputDevice "USB Mouse"
...
...
...
EndSection

Nellinux

OK... so far so good... I have a HP printer which I connect to a USB
port. I was able to connect it and make it work. Now I have another
question, I have an external DVD RW which connects to the ieee1394
port. How do I mount it under slackware 11? The slackware book doesn't
have anything about ieee1394 connections. Also, did slackware 11 came
with any DVD/CD recorder software? Any help would be appreciated.



On Feb 8, 4:30 pm, warpman...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have an old laptop which run winxp pro and slack 10.2... I have been
> running slack10.2 for a while now and I'm kind of curious if I should
> upgrade it to the lastest version. My laptop only has 256mb of memory.
> Should I go head and move to slack 11? or should I just continue to
> keep on using slack 10.2? What are the benefits of moving to slack 11?
> If i decided to move to slack 11 should I just backup my personal data
> and do a clean install? or should I try to upgrade it? Any help/info
> would be appreciated.

On 2007-02-14, warpman999@yahoo.com <warpman999@yahoo.com> wrote:
> question, I have an external DVD RW which connects to the ieee1394
> port. How do I mount it under slackware 11? The slackware book doesn't

I *suppose* it's the same with usb. Recognized as "scsi" device

Plug-it and execute dmesg. Some device like /dev/sr0 maybe will
appear.

> with any DVD/CD recorder software? Any help would be appreciated.

Command line yes. Gui it's on extra (K3B) (as root)

Info about your media and device

dvd+rw-mediainfo /path/of/device (I use /dev/sr0) (normal user)

I burn a dvd like this: (have to be root)

growisofs -Z /path/of/device -R -J -speed=X /path/of/direcory/to/write/on/dvd
(X = profile, not speed, see dvd+rw-mediainfo)

Take care that your directory to dvd does not exceeds 4.7Gbytes.

I am newbie on dvd burning, so maybe some guy has corrections on me.

Better tutorials can be found on the web. Man pages are good.

--
Please excuse my english writing!
Slackware 11
Knowledge report: One year, still plenty to learn

Thanks! I'll give it a try later on today...

On Feb 14, 3:56 pm, korgman <kor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2007-02-14,warpman...@yahoo.com <warpman...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > question, I have an external DVD RW which connects to the ieee1394
> > port. How do I mount it under slackware 11? The slackware book doesn't
>
> I *suppose* it's the same with usb. Recognized as "scsi" device
>
> Plug-it and execute dmesg. Some device like /dev/sr0 maybe will
> appear.
>
> > with any DVD/CD recorder software? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Command line yes. Gui it's on extra (K3B) (as root)
>
> Info about your media and device
>
> dvd+rw-mediainfo /path/of/device (I use /dev/sr0) (normal user)
>
> I burn a dvd like this: (have to be root)
>
> growisofs -Z /path/of/device -R -J -speed=X /path/of/direcory/to/write/on/dvd
> (X = profile, not speed, see dvd+rw-mediainfo)
>
> Take care that your directory to dvd does not exceeds 4.7Gbytes.
>
> I am newbie on dvd burning, so maybe some guy has corrections on me.
>
> Better tutorials can be found on the web. Man pages are good.
>
> --
> Please excuse my english writing!
> Slackware 11
> Knowledge report: One year, still plenty to learn