slack 7.0 questions

[mis]

Ok, it is up and almost totally running now. With several installs and crashes (due to my playing as root) I have finally decided to fix not install so here are some problems I can't seem to get.

1) when it rebooted for the first time it picked up my soundcard correctly I think. It was the ARD1816(? not at home so not positive of the module) I could not test this because it made my mouse go nuts. So I went into the rc.modules and commented it back out and restarted and no sound but my mouse is fine again. So how do I tell what is on which IRQ and how do I change the one my mouse is using. It is a MS optical trackball ps/2.

2) I keep getting an error about not able to set xscreensaver password for "root" and this repeats for each user.

3) this is a general one, I know how to check loaded modules but how do I 'unload' one? And how do I stop and restart inetd? I remember something about -NOHUP something.

Thanks,
Mis

[TheGimp]

first off... :cool: Slackware :cool:

1) cat /proc/interupts will tell you what interupts are being used by what devices. Also your bios should report on your pc's settings before it boots your OS. You can press pause to have a better look at it.

2) pass :)

3)rmmod module
that will unload a module.

[Lorithar]

*grins*

Slack 7.0 .. good stuff man ..
*can you tell I use slack...*

Okay .. inetd ... If you alter any of the config files for inetd (etc/inetd.conf ) you can restart inetd with the following as root from the command line
killall -HUP inetd
(man inetd for the SIGNALS it will parse)

At least on my slack install I can less or more /proc/interrupts. Not EVERYTHING in /proc is more able or less able, but those files that tend to be static can be listed that way.

If you start something NOHUP
(for instance
ftpd NOHUP
) that means you are telling the daemon NOT to respond to SIGNALS.
I don't get the bit about yer sound card knocking yer mouse for a loop, unless they both happen to share an IRQ or ioport. Check /proc/pci (if that there soundcard is a PCI based one) and see if it happens to be using irq 12 or any ioaddresses ... although to tell the truth I don't think it would be using 12. .. I don't recall the ioaddresses for the mouse port.

Verify that PNP OS installed is OFF in the BIOS settings for the box as well.

[ 13 March 2001: Message edited by: Lorithar ]

[ph34r]

Find out what resources your card wants, and be sure there are no problems with conflicts. If it is a pnp card, use the isapnp tool stuff - be sure to make each section you want active.

Check the xscreensaver docs - I didn't have a problem with it on my Slack 7.0 system, and it works fine on 7.1 for me as well.

lsmod, rmmod, insmod/modprobe are what you need to be using to play with your modules... And to restart inetd, just do kill -HUP <pid of inetd>. To get the pid, do ps awx | grep inetd.