http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/categories/en-general/p51/feed.rss Tue, 07 May 24 12:28:49 +0200 English en-CA http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/599/etcx11xorg.config-is-missing... Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:09:32 +0100 oversoul 599@/index.php?p=/discussions http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/556/solved-could-not-allocate-physical-memory-error-wine-qemu-virtualbox Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:08:17 +0100 monz 556@/index.php?p=/discussions The host machine has 2 GB of RAM.

Wine gives this error and will not run at all:

preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00110000-68000000
wine: failed to initialize: /usr/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory

Trying to run my Windows XP virtual machine in VirtualBox, it starts with the black XP boot-up screen, but then when i try to login, i get an error dialog-box with this message:

Unable to allocate and lock memory. The virtual machine will be paused. Please close applications to free up memory or close the VM.

with ErrorID: HostMemoryLow

But i never had a problem with this machine before, with exactly the same configuration.

Results in qemu are similar. I tried running my Windows XP qemu machine with varying amounts of memory, having varying degrees of success. It booted fine with RAM amounts up to 320 MB (but was extremely slow), but when i tried 336 MB, it seemed to boot to the desktop ok, but as soon as i tried to open Task Manager the whole machine aborted and i got a segmentation fault error. If i Results in qemu are similar. I tried running my Windows XP qemu machine with varying amounts of memory, having varying degrees of success. It booted fine with RAM amounts up to 320 MB (but was extremely slow), but when i tried 336 MB, it seemed to boot to the desktop ok, but as soon as i tried to open Task Manager the whole machine aborted and i got a segmentation fault error. If i try to run a machine with a larger amount of RAM, i get this:

"could not allocate physical memory".

]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/218/slitaz-liveusb-in-qemu Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:23:07 +0100 guitarMan666 218@/index.php?p=/discussions $ qemu -m 384 -kernel bzImage -append "root=rootfs.gz"

The issue however is that QEMU does not seem to be able to use a bootloader and must start the kernel directly. However doing this, the kernel panics. With:

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30.6-slitaz #1

There is also a call trace that I will give if requested (it's a little lengthy to add to the post). Is there a way to do this properly so that it loads in QEMU just like it would load from a BIOS?]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/360/new-slitaz-snow-livecd-flavors-slitaz-dillo.iso Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:59:19 +0100 kultex 360@/index.php?p=/discussions
Then I wanted to install just firefox, because this 8W running Computer is going to be my surf PC. But after installation it did not start, because of missing depencies - so the depencies for firefox should be rewritten....it needs also alsa-uitils

the only thing, I do not like - but its just a matter of taste: I would prefere Midnight Commander with built in mcedit instead of nano and this strange clex]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/600/lxlauncher Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:43:41 +0100 ImSofa 600@/index.php?p=/discussions http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/594/rox-filer Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:32:46 +0100 ImSofa 594@/index.php?p=/discussions
Thanks]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/592/netbox-cpl-lan-set-up Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:05:32 +0100 pier 592@/index.php?p=/discussions Can anyone help me ?
The DHCP tab shows:
Interface eth0
Options -b
Script /usr/share/udhcpc/default.script

Thanks for your help
P]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/574/gparted-etc... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:37:09 +0100 josh 574@/index.php?p=/discussions http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/587/a-few-slitaz-problems Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:34:33 +0100 ericj 587@/index.php?p=/discussions
1.) Even though I installed Slitaz onto a USB using the innstructions here (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-slitaz-to-usb-from-windows/), it did not save the data onto the flash drive. Instead, it saves the data (by data, I mean /home) to a "tux" folder on one of my hard drives. I was aiming to make Slitaz a truly portable OS that I could use on any computer, so this is a big problem. I tried adding the Slitaz home=usb line in syslinux.cfg, as well as manually typing it in, neither way worked.

2.) Mountbox does not see one of my harddrives. It is a 1.5TB Seagate drive- specifically the ST31500541AS. It seems to see all of the other drives (all of my other drives are some sort of Western Digital model) just fine. Even Gparted will not see this drive for some reason. Gparted sees it when I run it in partedmagic instead of Slitaz, so this problem really stumps me.

3.) I haven't figured out how to use the package manager yet. What I have been doing is installing packages using the tazpkg get-install command. For example, tazpkg get-install mplayer, which works fine, asks if I want to install dependences and I say yes until I have all dependencies, then I type "mplayer" in the console to start mplayer and it says not found. I've also tried this with Skype.

When installing I used the latest cooking iso as of tonight. Sorry if any of these questions are basic, I didn't find much relevant information on the Slitaz site or wiki, so if there is someplace I should be finding this information before posting here I apologize.]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/454/broken-items-in-cooking-snow Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:21:31 +0100 slicel 454@/index.php?p=/discussions
Two trouble-free apps are gone, gparted and epdfview.

Sound was broken until I did http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/comment/2132/#Comment_2132 . It was a fresh install with fresh updates so it might be that these old problems still are not fixed-
http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/368/sound-not-working-module-loaded-but-device-node-is-missing
http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/219/soundcard-not-detected/#Item_4

Slitaz abiword has never worked properly. Ubuntu abiword works. Slitaz abiword still has the same problem reported by me and someone else on the old forum about abiword displaying files with content as blank pages or nearly blank pages with strange symbols or occassional punctuation.

Slitaz openoffice does not work and has not worked for a long time. Ubuntu openoffice works. Slitaz openoffice appears to install and takes a half gb of hd space with java but does not open. Sometimes the menu has openoffice icons. Maybe it is related to http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/20/is-openoffice-installed/#Item_8 or to http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/comment/596/#Comment_596 that mentioned 2gb ram not being enough to install openoffice. I have 2gb ram plus 2gb swap plus almost 2gb hd space free when I tried to install. If almost 6gb is not enough to install, that is opposite of slitaz credo for simple and light and more like microsoft system requirements.

Does slitaz have any reliable word processor?

Are any snow flavors for low ram? I could not find any explanations in site documentations.

Thank you.]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/562/solved-compile-gcc-with-enable-languagesfortran Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:15:36 +0100 Totoetsasoeur 562@/index.php?p=/discussions I am trying to make Octave running on Slitaz. Apparently, Octave needs gfortran (gcc with fortran).

I spend many hours trying to compile a new gcc with languages = fortran but now I really need some help.

...
The configure process run well:

$../gcc-4.4.3/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc_4.4.3 --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran

...

But the make process just failed with:

checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/toto/Téléchargements/gcc_4.4.3/gcc-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc':
configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
See `config.log' for more details.
make[2]: *** [configure-stage2-target-libgcc] Erreur 1
make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /home/toto/Téléchargements/gcc_4.4.3/gcc-build »
make[1]: *** [stage2-bubble] Erreur 2
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/toto/Téléchargements/gcc_4.4.3/gcc-build »
make: *** [all] Erreur 2


...

Having a look at the config.log file. I don't want to post all the config.log. Here are only the error lines:

configure:3757: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5
conftest.c:2: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'me'
configure:3763: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| #ifndef __cplusplus
| choke me
| #endif
configure:3948: checking for g++

...
configure:4209: g++ -c -g -O2 conftest.cc >&5
conftest.cc: In function 'int main()':
conftest.cc:13: error: 'exit' was not declared in this scope
configure:4215: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
| exit (42);
...
configure:4912: gcc -c -g -O2 -I/include conftest.c >&5
conftest.c:12:19: error: ppl_c.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c: In function 'main':
conftest.c:18: error: 'choke' undeclared (first use in this function)
conftest.c:18: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
conftest.c:18: error: for each function it appears in.)
conftest.c:18: error: expected ';' before 'me'
configure:4918: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C" void exit (int) throw ();
| #endif
| /* end confdefs.h. */
| #include "ppl_c.h"
| int
...
configure:5031: gcc -c -g -O2 -I/include -DCLOOG_PPL_BACKEND conftest.c >&5
conftest.c:12:25: error: cloog/cloog.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c: In function 'main':
conftest.c:18: error: 'choke' undeclared (first use in this function)
conftest.c:18: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
conftest.c:18: error: for each function it appears in.)
conftest.c:18: error: expected ';' before 'me'
configure:5037: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C" void exit (int) throw ();
| #endif
| /* end confdefs.h. */
| #include "cloog/cloog.h"
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| #if CLOOG_VERSION_MAJOR != 0 || CLOOG_VERSION_MINOR != 15
| choke me

...

Here is the gcc version I am using:
$ gcc -v
Utilisation des specs internes.
Target: i486-pc-linux-gnu
Configuré avec: ../gcc-4.4.1/configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++,java --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-objc-gc --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-threads=posix --with-tune=i486 --enable-java-home --with-arch-directory=i386 --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-gcj --with-python-dir=/lib/python2.5/site-packages --with-x --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --host=i486-pc-linux-gnu i486-pc-linux-gnu
Modèle de thread: posix
gcc version 4.4.1 (GCC)
$

...

I would appreciate any advices on how to build gcc with fortran language option.
Stephane
]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/590/isa-slot-audio-card-problem-and-help-needed-for-few-programs-install Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:17:39 +0100 oversoul 590@/index.php?p=/discussions I installed myself SliTaz on VM, I loved it and than I decided to install it on my super old AMD 300MHz K6, 512 RAM, integrated video (which I intend to replace with an ISA video card, which was used for video edit by some studio 15 years ago) and ISA slot sound card. Now the problem is, I can't make SliTaz find them - I don't know how (I'm somewhat new at linux, although I know how to do the main stuff).
Also, I can't ./configure programs - I couldn't configure VLC media player, LMMS 4.2, Open Office... Also, wine doesn't run........ And I can't edit my xorg.config - I installed xorg, but I can't find the xorg.config in /etc/X11... I need it, because I need to switch between Bulgarian and English all the time...
Please help me, because I want to make SliTaz my main OS.
Thank you in advance :)]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/585/geode-sondcard-not-working-on-dillo.iso Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:10:21 +0100 kultex 585@/index.php?p=/discussions
in the dillo.iso I installed all the alsa-stuff - but there is no module snd_cs5535audio

where is this module hidden?]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/589/missing-objet-in-linux-ext4 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:25:59 +0100 mazet 589@/index.php?p=/discussions
crc16.ko.gz, jbd2.ko.gz and mbcache.ko.gz aremissing from linux-ext4 package. On can rebuild them from linux-source package (cd /usr/src/linux; make && make module ) then inster them in the kernel (insmod ./fs/mbcache.ko ./fs/jbd2/jbd2.ko ./lib/crc16.ko)

Hope that can help

Laurent]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/582/linux-source-depends-on-bzip2 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:14:31 +0100 PoneyBirds 582@/index.php?p=/discussions package linux-source comes with a .bz2 in it, so it should depend on bzip2.]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/588/avahi-mdns-for-ad-hoc-networking Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:47:01 +0100 Carl 588@/index.php?p=/discussions
Carl]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/584/trying-to-install-eclipse-classic-configure-java-path Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:00:39 +0100 Henrique 584@/index.php?p=/discussions how I install Eclipse Classic? I have downnloaded and extracted eclipse-SDK-3.5.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz.
When I trie to open eclipse executable it gives me an error.

"A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK)
must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine
was found after searching the following locations:
/home/tux/eclipse/jre/bin/java
java in your current PATH"

How to correct the problem. How I change my current path and where is current Path of Java in Slitaz?]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/581/mirror-vs.-mirrors Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:44:40 +0100 PoneyBirds 581@/index.php?p=/discussions
I installed cooking from slitaz-cooking.iso (2010-02-01) and updated all pakets to the latest version.

In /var/lib/tazpkg there are 3 files:
mirror
mirrors
mirrors.bak

Which one is used by tazpkg? It looks like a typo to me ("mirror" should be "mirrors" or the other way around).

Is there a bug tracking thingy for slitaz?
]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/520/-a-little-help-pls-slitaz-packages-manager Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:39:14 +0100 time4meds 520@/index.php?p=/discussions recharge does not solve the problem. If I do a "tazpkg upgrade from terminal, it provides a very long list of all
my installed programs, and tells me to upgrade to the exact same version (for every pkg). Is there any way to 'reset' or somehow fix this, I miss the ability to browse packages that are not installed.]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/580/slitaz-on-acer-aspire-one- Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:21:45 +0100 Jan109 580@/index.php?p=/discussions Thx for the help.]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/570/boot-and-speed-problems Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:43:56 +0100 akxs14 570@/index.php?p=/discussions
I am trying to install SliTaz to the following PC:

- Intel Celeron 766MHz
- NVidia Vanda graphics card
- Western Digital 120Gb HDD
- 128MB RAM

I have tried to install the 2.0 stable version but always halts at during "Unpacking initramfs".
I tried with the cooking version which is botting but can load X only with the irqpoll option.

Any suggestion is really welcome.
]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/578/any-luck-with-virtualboxs Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:59:40 +0100 Stan 578@/index.php?p=/discussions
Did anyone had any luck with installing VB guest additions? Is there a chance that this is possible?
For me it keeps complaining for incompatible OS, even though I've installed all required dependencies.]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/577/more-problems-with-tazpkg-managernew-packaging-system- Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:45:46 +0100 davesurrey 577@/index.php?p=/discussions It fixed the problem with the tazpkg manager GUI in that I can now see all available installable packages.
But now if I try to right click on the desktop and select Openbox>ObConf or Openbox>Openbox Menu nothing happens. Also Openbox>Restart refreshes the menu but doesn't give a task bar anymore.
Also Right click on Desktop and adding a new desktop works but it doesn't persist after a reboot.

Plus the problems with aboword and fotoxx which I mentioned on the previous thread, "A little help pls, SliTaz Packages Manager".
Not a good day.]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/565/solved-how-to-set-font-size-of-login-window Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:21:41 +0100 Totoetsasoeur 565@/index.php?p=/discussions Does anyone know how to set the font size of the user login window (I mean the x login)?

I run Slitaz on a laptop with high resolution, and the text display on login window is really too small.

Thanks in advance.
Stephane]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/569/how-to-change-network-from-standart-eth0-to-eth1 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:29:50 +0100 Nik 569@/index.php?p=/discussions I installed slitaz on a desktop with an onboard Lan-Chip and another internet-card set into a pci slot.
I am using the one in the pci-slot which is eth1 to slitaz!
But everytime I reboot I have to switch to eth1 manually!
So: How to change network from standart eth0 to eth1?
Thank your for any advice!
Greetz
Nik]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/567/problem-with-tazpkg Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:46:05 +0100 feardisappear 567@/index.php?p=/discussions
firstly thanks to everyone who has helped with this awesome distro. i just installed stable 2.0 and it's been very easy to set up. however, i have encountered a problem with which i need help.

everytime i try tazpkg get-install packagename i get outputs like this one:

Copying libnotify-0.4.4... [ OK ]
Extracting libnotify-0.4.4... 28 blocks
Extracting the pseudo fs... zcat: fs.cpio.gz: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'fs.cpio.gz': No such file or directory
Installing libnotify... cp: cannot stat 'fs/*': No such file or directory
[ Failed ]
Removing all tmp files... [ OK ]

these errors occured on every dependency when i tried

tazpkg get-install xine-plugin

and

tazpkg get-install gecko-mediaplayer

in order for tazpkg to see gecko, i ran

tazpkg set-release cooking

was it a mistake to to do set-release cooking on my stable install? i'm wondering what could be causing these errors. i should mention, i also had problems with the get-flash-plugin script. i got this error in the output:

/usr/bin/get-flash-plugin: cd: line 53: can't cd to install_flash_player_10_linux

this was before running tazpkg set-release. i was able to manualy copy the libflashplayer.so plugin file to my firefox plugins directory which allowed it to work. i'm stumped on xine and gecko though. i'm hoping to get a working quicktime plugin installed.

thanks for your help and consideration. cheers.]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/575/script Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:38:51 +0100 newuser 575@/index.php?p=/discussions http://www.frank-karau.de/php_forum_script/ , and got it running in the time it took to uploaded to the server it looks a lot better than the Vanilla you are using and you don't have to use a Database since everything is stored in a flat file. I think every one agrees that it is very hard to follow.]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/566/receipt-database Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:13:34 +0100 newuser 566@/index.php?p=/discussions http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/550/some-forum-help-pls-maybe-this-should-be-part-of-an-faq-for-how-to-use-this-forums Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:40:49 +0100 jf_ 550@/index.php?p=/discussions - what's "sink", and what's "close"? these terms probably need to be explained. (They're not universal terms as far as i know?)]]> http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/555/e17 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:34:35 +0100 josh 555@/index.php?p=/discussions