Has anyone found a solution for this usb issue?

Is it a kernel bug?

OR is a higher version of the kernel the answer?

I tried running spi -i vlc and it didn't work.

It's ok because I installed Slackware on the laptop today.

Thanks

Hi:

I know that some things take developers time to fix and build.

Does anyone know when this command for VLC will work?
A ballpark idea please-

Thanks again-

Updating the pkg cache, installing tetex and rebooting was successful.
Running the cmd you posted for the codecs-installer went well. I now have a picture of the video that I needed.
Thank you; laprjns:-

That's what will happen eventually for 14.2, just not there yet


I understand that this will ...

Hi:

You can set up a root account in Salix using the terminal. This worked for me.- :D

Open the terminal and type:
sudo passwd root


Enter the password that you created when you installed Salix OS. This is the password that you choose during your full installation.
Than enter the new password ...

Hi:

Trying to help myself here but I'm running into things I don't understand.

I installed ffmpeg and ffmgegthumbnailer using the G-splat pkg mgr. For some reason it didn't show the thumbnail to the video I have in my video's directory.
I need to be able to see the picture of the video instead of ...

I found it in the output but can't say I understand like you do-
Thanks

Thank you gapan and laprjns-
Xiphos is installed.
What was the indication that I needed linuxdoc-tools?

From reviewing the output of the Xiphos. SlackBuild failing?

Preparing to install cmake-3.5.2-x86_64-1
Installing package cmake-3.5.2-x86_64-1...
| CMake (cross-platform, open-source make system)



Now what's wrong?

Checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.10 : ok
Checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.12 : ok
Checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.14 : ok
Checking for pkg-config version ...