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Xorg flavor iso to download

There are many old computers with neomagic that cannot use Xvesa.

Old computers often do not have working internet immediately and do not have enough ram to make flavors.

Here is an incomplete (last updated 1998) but long list of computers using neomagic-

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/neomagic.html

Maybe the flavor would be optimized for that vintage of computer but at least a general xorg flavor would help many

new linux users who otherwise might get a bad impression of slitaz when their installations fail to display properly

"out of the box."

Thank you.

Last edited by slicel (2009-07-05 18:51:43)

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#2 2009-07-05 18:54:04

spork
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Re: Xorg flavor iso to download

Yes, I would like that too. Could it have all the different drivers (ati, neomagic) so the user can choose one at

boot, and not download anything?

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#3 2009-07-05 20:20:22

bikepunk
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Re: Xorg flavor iso to download

+1

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#4 2009-07-06 15:26:00

slicel
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Re: Xorg flavor iso to download

I do not understand how we are supposed to know which of the big list of xorg modules to install to replace xvesa.

I do not understand how we are supposed to use tazlito without knowing all the depends of any desired module.

Thank you.

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#5 2009-07-06 19:39:39

spork
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Re: Xorg flavor iso to download

slicel wrote:

I do not understand how we are supposed to know which of the big list of xorg modules to install to replace

xvesa.

We have them all available on the CD, and the user chooses it - just like the way it works now - but without any

downloading.

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#6 2009-07-07 04:18:43

slicel
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I do not understand how we are supposed to know which xorg packages to choose to replace xvesa.

I followed instructions to install xorg-server and my video driver but it failed to work.

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#7 2009-07-07 08:17:31

rxd
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Re: Xorg flavor iso to download

http://forum.slitaz.org/viewtopic.php?id=2179

See the iso Melos did, driver is ok for some notebooks using vesa driver, only ctrl-alt-backspace freezes my screen.

I installed the intel driver doesn't seem to work and vesa driver does not work on my intel chip.

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#8 2009-07-07 11:22:44

slicel
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Re: Xorg flavor iso to download

Melos' iso gave error AA, AX=4240 drive EO, boot error.

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#9 2009-07-14 01:21:45

spork
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Re: Xorg flavor iso to download

(blows dust off /home/slitaz)
I hacked my GIMP/slitaz iso and added the neomagic module and Xorg. In the tazx prompt, scroll down to where "xorg"

is, but select "neomagic" instead. That should set it up and work nicely.

It is about 40.7MB, MD5: 8a9c92e1874ce0863be3061809e76391

Get it here

Let me know how it works!

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#10 2009-07-14 16:04:48

slicel
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Re: Xorg flavor iso to download

Spork, thank you but after the splash screen-

VFS: Cannot open root device "null" or unknown block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
0100 4096 ram0 (driver?)
...
0301 907641 hda1
0302 152617 hda2
0340 41630 hdb driver: ide-cdrom
Kernel panic - not syncing VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

Maybe the iso is not set for my hd (non-sata), partitions, swap, or ram size.

I think I figured out the needed packages if I could get tazlito to work.

Thank you.

Last edited by slicel (2009-07-14 16:05:15)