For those of you unfamiliar yet with opencart 1.5 , here it is how you set up the slider.
First you go in admin > system > design > banners , and there you either edit or insert banners.
When you clicked insert (or edit) you will be taken to the banner page. In that page you have to insert more images
by clicking "Add banner" if then you want a slideshow.
After you uploaded your images in the banner (is best if the images are the same size) , navigate trough admin to
extension > modules.
There , click edit on the module Slideshow.
There , you will click add module , and in the first column , its asking you to select a banner. So , there you
select the banner in which you uploaded more that one image (the images from that banner will appear on your
slideshow.
The second column in size. Is best to insert the same size for the slideshow , as for your images (if you want it like the one from the demo , the size in 980X280). At layout select first home , and then if you want it on
other pages too , click on add module , and add it to another layout too. At position select content top (or some
other position you want) , then select Enabled and hit save.
Please note that the pages (layouts) in which you use the 980px width banners , needs to be a one column page, Which