Hi @oldcity --

I think this is the result of a very basic video driver being used automatically with your graphics set-up.

Could you possibly tell me what the output of these commands are, please?
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
lspci | grep VGA

Hopefully we can customise the configuration to improve it. That's the thing with LiveCDs, they have to work, sometimes they need to adjust to a very basic config. if the environment is a bit technically strange.

Thanks.

should be

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver 

:)

Results from Dell B110
hth
@oldcity:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
Driver "kbd"
Driver "mouse"
@oldcity:~$ lspci | grep vga
@oldcity:~$ l

Thanks, @oldcity.

The commands are case-sensitive; please try with upper-case VGA.
Alternatively, just the output of lspci will be fine :)
This is to identify the graphics chip the system has.

Hopefully we can then identify the appropriate driver and further suggestions.

Thanks!

Suggestion: use "grep -i" to ignore case distinctions

@jozee perhaps xorgmaker.sh can be adopted to Slitaz

I found the code here

http://forums.wolvix.org/index.php?action=printpage;topic=658.0

its also used and developed in lin2go http://lin2go.com/downloads.shtml

l@oldcity:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
@oldcity:~$

I do have the same issues with slitaz 3.0 (the final release)

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
Driver "kbd"
Driver "mouse"
### Available Driver options are:-
Driver "vesa"

$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controllerller] (rev 04)

Also Slitaz does not recognise my integrated Wifi card (this is an old Dell C400)

Any idea what can be done to solve that ?

anyone has any idea on that ? thanks

try reading these:
http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/comment/4786/#Comment_4786
http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/1012/broadcom-4312-wireless-not-working-on-dell-mini-9

if it does not work post the output of lspci relative to your wireless card, even if i'm not sure to can help you

incidently, on another machine which has an ATI card, i tried to load some ati driver after following the instructions of on of the post and is says

Unable to find : get-xorg-xf86-video-ati-6.9.0 in the mirrored packages list

(while the command i typed states otherwise:

tux@slitaz:~$ tazpkg search xf86-video

Search result for : xf86-video

Installed packages
================================================================================
xorg-xf86-video-vesa 2.0.0 x-window
================================================================================
1 installed package(s) found for : xf86-video

Available packages name-version
================================================================================
xorg-xf86-video-ati-6.9.0
xorg-xf86-video-geode-2.10.1
[other packages listed here removed]


I guess something needs to be fixed here in the packages.... :(

For the wifi the components are:
PCI1410 PC Car Cardbus Controller
TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card
WLAN Interface

This is what i get from the appropriate Ubuntu interface

lspci returns a bunch of lines, two of them being

02:01.0 Cardbus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI 1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (Rev 02)
02:03.0 Cardbus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI 1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (Rev 01)

I can't go any further from here.... :(
Thanks

Cristophe, the package not found starts with "get" while the others do not.

Get-x installs x.

On the wifi, I used to find all the technical id numbers (chipsets, etc.) and google them with the words "linux" and "module."

I also once had a non-wifi 3com card whose "correct" module was buggy and needed a patch.

I'm a bit confused now. How many card and configs and machines do we have now, three?

@oldcity could try to install the xorg-xf86-video-intel package, switch the Driver line from vesa to intel and load the intel* kernel modules, as discussed in another thread.

@christophe would need to:
tazpkg get-install xorg-xf86-video-ati
to get the drivers. Again, the xorg.conf line should then be switched.

I'm unfamiliar with that wi-fi, is it a PCMCIA external card thingy?

I see why you comment this way but I did a copy past so i do not understand what went wrong. Below the exact sequence (i should have done that at first)

root@slitaz:/home/tux# tazpkg get-install xorg-xf86-video-ati-6.9.0

Unable to find : xorg-xf86-video-ati-6.9.0 in the mirrored packages list.


Unable to find : get-xorg-xf86-video-ati-6.9.0 in the mirrored packages list.

root@slitaz:/home/tux#

Ah. You don't need to include the version number as you'll downlaod the newest version anyway.

tazpkg get-install xorg-xf86-video-ati

For the wifi card:

since it works properly under ubunt: what would be the commands to find what driver or module is loaded by the kernel under ubuntu ? wouldn't it be a good start ? and what would be the steps to proceed from here ?
Thanks

For the ati driver: lol i really don't get it, but it installed after i suppressed the version number. In fact it appends the version number again and install that thing. Where would be the fun if there was no mystery ;)

root@slitaz:/home/tux# tazpkg get-install xorg-xf86-video-ati

xorg-xf86-video-ati-6.9.0
Connecting to mirror.slitaz.org (94.23.60.116:80)
xorg-xf86-video-ati- 100% |*******************************| 169k --:--:-- ETA

Installation of : xorg-xf86-video-ati-6.9.0
================================================================================
Copying xorg-xf86-video-ati-6.9.0... [ OK ]
Extracting xorg-xf86-video-ati-6.9.0... 340 blocks
Extracting the pseudo fs... (lzma) 1091 blocks
Installing xorg-xf86-video-ati... [ OK ]
Removing all tmp files... [ OK ]
================================================================================
xorg-xf86-video-ati (6.9.0) is installed.

root@slitaz:/home/tux#

@seawolf: sorry for the confusion.
I have a desktop and a Dell C400 laptop.

The discussion about the ATI driver concerns my desktop, on which Slitaz runs well (and i installed the ati driver as you recommended). Consider this as SOLVED.

On my Dell C400 i have 2 problems:
- a screen definition problem similar to what oldcity mentionned (I understand this is not necessarily the exact same cause though). Slitaz allows me to have 800x640 resolution only, while that laptop supports 1024x768.

- a wifi card recognition problem. That wifi card is not exactly and external PCI one. In these Dell there are 2 "internal" tiny slots, one for the modem one for a wifi card. Dell calls that "TrueMobile 1150 Series Mini PCI Card". It works out of the box with ubuntu, pclos, and i seem to remember, with DSL (but I could be wrong on that one). I am just hoping to have it work with slitaz as well.

For my screen resolution I will follow the recommandation you provide to oldcity to get the intel drivers, it could be the same, and will post the result.

I do not know the ubuntu command but I would check the ubuntu wifi module.

@Christophe
may you post the output of lsmod?

lsmod output is

Module Size Used by Not tainted
yenta_socket 20988 1
rsrc_nonstatic 9136 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 27628 2 yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
3c59x 35904 0
snd_intel8x0m 12204 0
snd_intel8x0 26724 1
snd_ac97_codec 88736 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1308 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 51780 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 16344 1 snd_pcm
snd 43584 7 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 5180 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7256 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

the dell true mobile is a relabeld orinoco pcmcia card http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=472912 - I have no idea, if the orinoco driver is available

try

modprobe orinoco_cs

Unfortunately, I see 3c59x in your output and orinoco in other websites. With help from either domcox or deadwait, I dealt with those on the old forum and well documented a patch needed for either one of those or a similar module ( I do not remember which) but all that work was deleted last year with the old forum and the forum manager with the archive has not posted the material.

Find the ubuntu module with lsmod, modinfo, or similar commands and try that module.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/man8/lsmod.8.html

http://www.dipalo.com/c400.html

Edit- Kultex and I were typing at the same time.

modprobe orinoco_cs

did the job, thanks for the hint! (it appears as eth1 instead of wlan0 but who cares)

Now I still have to solve the display issue.
Actually the only display i get is 640x480x24, I believe
loading the intel driver, and changing the xorg.conf as descibed here ==>

http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/949/prob.-resolution-et-mhz-de-mon-ecran/#Item_4

by erjo did not work ((tazhsw command return en error msg from sh
-sh: tazhsw: not found)

the xorg - xvesa driver has troubles with intel chips (its a i830)

first try the xvesa.iso http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/3.0/flavors/slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso

if this does not help you have to install the intel driver in xorg like erjo - just in case I give you another link

http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/comment/493/#Comment_493

Christophe:

by erjo did not work ((tazhsw command return en error msg from sh
-sh: tazhsw: not found)

Its a typo ; it should be tazhw.