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jamez1988
02-15-2004, 03:46 PM
I downloaded ZipSlack and installed it on my windows computer and managed to actuly get it to boot after about an hour of playing around with it. :-)
I downloaded a bunch of window managers (using windows) and made them accessable to ZipSlack. I unGZIPed and unTARed the main xfree86 package in the main folder in ZipSlack. (The '/' folder)
I then used the command

sh goinst.sh

and everything installed nicely.
but when i tried to run 'xf86config', i got an error message that went more or less like:

error loading shared librarys. libXext.so.6 can not open shared object file: no such file or directory

any idea what this means and how to fix it?

(I'm starting to get the feeling from my experiances with win compatable linux distros that i should just partition & install a 'real' distro)
mdwatts
02-15-2004, 03:48 PM
Originally posted by jamez1988

error loading shared librarys. libXext.so.6 can not open shared object file: no such file or directory


First try running

ldconfig

as root to see if that fixes that problem.
jamez1988
02-15-2004, 04:12 PM
yay, i figured out how to (sort of) fix it.
reading though the documantation, i stubled across a section about installing xfree86. It turns out that i was supposed to use a command called 'installpkg' it worked great, installed not only xfree, but also kde 3.2
i went though a configured X, but when i try to use 'startx', i get a whole bunch of error messages. unfortunetly, then the screen scrolls down and i can't catch what they are. I saw something about a cannot connect to x server and something about an error log, but that was about it.

do i need to edit some sort of config file and tell X to use KDE?
Hayl
02-15-2004, 04:22 PM
http://www.slackware.org/config/x.php
jamez1988
02-15-2004, 04:27 PM
nice! thanks.
um. unfortunetly, i'm still getting this error message and x still won't start. :(
Hayl
02-15-2004, 04:53 PM
look through the log file.

/var/log/XFree86.0.log

[EE] lines are errors in that file - look for all the [EE] lines.
jamez1988
02-15-2004, 05:07 PM
Can't find any [ee] s, but i found some (WW) s

apparently it keeps shutting down because it can't find any fonts. it looks in all these 'font' directorys and then it preforms a fetal error. i don't think i installed any fonts, and i remember reading that the package with xfree dosent include any.

anyone know where i can get some fonts?

edit: never mind, i found some at http://www.slackware.org/pb/?vers=slackware-9.1&set=x