i tried opening it from the command line on the livecd but it didnt work

So i decided to take a shot at the new BT4B and when i try to load KDE all i get is a yellow screen with black dots and nothing happens?? i tried searching the forums and didnt come up with anything

move this to the idiots corner

So i dont know where this should go.....so sorry if this is the wrong area but installing backtrack 3 (which the developers did a good job at) i had a couple issues

1.when booting i must have the...

so i installed bt3 following MUTS instructions on the wiki as usual and i just noticed something when i check my storage devices

my devices are as follows

/dev/fd0/
/dev/hda/
/dev/sda1/...

Im trying to install the drivers from the nVIDIA site for my card (nvidia geforce go 7150M) and i keep getting the following error...

ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently...

Worked like a charm....thank you very much

Ok so i have read this thread several times and i still dont get what im doing wrong because im getting the error when i try to retrieve the GPG keys from the mirrors..

Retrieving GPG key...

ok so i had some issues earlier getting everything up and running with the live CD to check and see if i was going to have issues will at first i had no screen and some other stuff that didnt work...

i just made this same exact thread earlier and found out you use text mode it will load up so you install and run it no ptoblems next time it might help to search

no it would just get to that point of logging in with ROOT/TOOR and the screen would go black and eventually reboot if i used the KDE mode using the TEXT MODE everything booted up fine now i just...

i dont really know what to search for so ill probably get flamed but i was wondering what i would have to do to get my laptop up and running my problem is when i try to RUN the LIVE CD with KDE it...

just wondering how i enable crypto support on BT3 in BT2 it used to be...

make menuconfig and it would bring it up now i get the following error....

make: *** No rule to make target...

Netgear WPN511 here

maybe his internet got shutoff???

you know i thought the same thing before that windows was so easy all you do is point and click you dont have to think about anything you just do it and it got boring ive been using linux for about 6...

looks like he hacked the gibson:rolleyes:

i think there fake

you have to do what they said here and edit your xorg.conf i had this same issue i could only log onto BT3 with midnight commander and edit it

ok try this then...

go HERE and update slapt-get and update slapt-get to the newest version....

then goto /etc/slapt-get/ and edit your slapt-get.rc files sources to these
...

will try it

ok when i first installed BT|3 it came with pidgin installed but it didnt have certain protocols on it so i updated with gslapt you can do this by....

KMenu> System> Gslapt and search for pidgin...

i got it to work but its way to buggy not alot of programs work also it took like 2 hours to do had to re-format several times....

but it was sexy in some ways:D

here

i hope this helps

KMenu>Internet>Pidgin?

thats what i did after i re-installed with GSLAPT

very nice...

had some issues but i cleared them up