Back into Slackware again
Posted on August 2, 2004
First off, it’s pretty hot out there. Of course it doesn’t help that I was wearing a dark grey long sleeve shirt outside, but I’m expected to dress nice for work.
I got Slackware 10.0 up and running on my computer, and I got the network going, so I must be doing okay. I got it to recognize my scroll mouse and I downloaded the current nVidia driver, but I haven’t edited the xorg.conf file except for the part about the mouse. I’ll have to edit it to recognize my JP106 Japanese keyboard and to get it to use the nVidia driver so I can run Blender, which needs GLX/OpenGL to run. I’m slowly moving stuff from the hdb to hda. When I have most of the essential stuff on hda, I will probably fdisk (format) hdb and just use it to hold Blender and/or music files.
I keep toying with the idea of getting new stuff for my PC, but I want more stuff than I can afford. I will probably buy things one or two at a time. What I want/need is a DVD-RW, a flash media card reader (with USB), a new processor, more memory, speakers, a better graphics card, etc. I was looking at graphics cards today and noticed one of them required a hard drive power cable!!! That must do some serious computing if it requires more power than what it gets through the motherboard.
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