I was able to get Slackware 10.2 installed without any problems, but I am having problems getting X to start. jms71, could you perhaps share some of the contents from your xorg.conf, notably what device to use for the mouse?
EDIT: Well, that's what I get for trying to customize things. The default install works just fine!
EDITx2: Alright, so X will now start and I can get KDE up and running. However, the screen resize and rotate tool won't load for some reason. So I'm getting something around a 1600x1200 resolution on my MacBook, which is far too big and makes it almost unuseable. Any ideas as to what's going on here?
EDITx3: Found some solutions:
First, I used "X -configure" to generate an xorg.conf file (the default install appears to simply generate one on the fly instead of writing one to hard disk). As expected, it spat an error that the mouse couldn't be detected, but I discovered how the default installation used the mouse. In the Mouse section of xorg.conf, where you have something such as:
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
I changed this to:
Option "Module" "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o"
(This might be better done in the module section? I haven't tried that yet, but this seems to work.)
To fix the resolution problems, under the Monitor section the following were added (taken from a tutorial on getting Ubuntu to work with BootCamp):
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-64
VertRefresh 43-60
Modeline "1280x800" 83.91 1280 1312 1624 1656 800 816 824 841 +HSync +Vsync
And under the "Screen" section added:
Modes "1280x800"
to every Display subsection.
After making those changes, I was able to start X, with almost complete mouse support (no scrolling), and successfully used KDE and fluxbox. If anyone sees some better ways to configure this, please feel free to share. I'll also come back here if I find anything else that might be helpful.
Last edited: Aug 27, 2006