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Slitaz and older newbees

Gramps — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:04:59 +0200

Hello folks,
I'm new to linux and I've been looking for a linux type to learn to use. I've tried ubuntu, mint, and several others. They are easy for an older person like myself to use ( I'm 62), but they don't run worth a dang on my old IBM T23 notebook which is a pentium 3 1.1 gigahertz with 256 MB of RAM. How difficult would Slitaz be to learn to work with if you're a old, slow, upper middle aged person like myself? Please be honest but let's not be mean, I've already had a few on other forums tell me that older newbees aren't needed.

Gramps

How to disable all power saving for sound/alsa?

slicel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:58:43 +0200

How do I disable all power saving for sound/alsa?

I asked about it in another thread but did not receive an answer there.

I still do not see any powerbox tool or any other setting control for it.

Thank you.

start with xfce

mohikan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:55:12 +0100

hi everybody

I installed xfce with "tazpkg get-install xfce4"
how can I change settings to start xfce
and, I need to change keyboard map to tr_q-latin5, I couldn't fınd how can I install the keymap

thanks

rootfs.gz not found on the CD by the fitter (Graph and in terminal)

Frezi — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:12:34 +0200

Good morning, sorry for errors, I am French-speaking and can English. :)

I offered Slitaz to a friend and when they try to throw the fitter, he answers rootfs.gz not found on the CD: (See capture, simpler)

http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1271893047.png

It is about one Asus p5ql Pro Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz Overclock 3.2Ghz Nvidia 9800 GTX+
2X OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Platinum Dual Channel

There is only the single CD and in LIVE CD this works as you can see it on the capture. (With LIVE CD in the reader) Who can help me to resolve problem because it is rather annoying. Thank you

I just installed on EeePC 2g surf but slitaz can't see my external HD

tara — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:02:40 +0200

I tried the mount device software that comes with the OS, but it only sees my external as a cd rom ISO or something like that. I'm fairly new to linux and still ignorant to line commands. I still can only figure out GUI's. I've downloaded all the packages that i can found pertaining to USBs and it still doesnt recognize the external. It's a toshiba 1gb external drive if that helps. thanks in advance!

TR Q Problem Continues

ozgur — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:36:10 +0200

http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/comment/2815/#Comment_2815

This link is useless

How can i add TR keymap ?

Ahmet — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:40:35 +0100

Hi everyone,

i'm moderate Linux user but newbie in Slitaz. I wanna use tr-q keymap on Slitaz. How can i do it?

Most annoying bugs list - and out of date Handbook

jpeg — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:55:29 +0200

On the openSUSE download page http://en.opensuse.org/Download there is a link to the Most Annoying Bugs list.
Maybe we should put something like that on the wiki next to the Handbook and the Cookbook.
The page could just contain brief descriptions of the problems, e.g. boot liveCD and just get vertical colored lines, and a couple of links to the forum discussions that give solutions. Of course it would be better to add details of the solution, but a link to the forum is better than nothing.

The handbook being a bit out of date, maybe we should start editing the pages just by putting a note at the top. This information refers to Slitaz 2.0.
That would be a start, and it would help newcomers.

jpeg

My brief critique

oldcity — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:43:58 +0200

Grr.
Had looked forward to 3.0. Tried it on an older machine and would not boot as livecd. Just got vertical lines. No joy.
Tried a Dell B110 w/768 mb Ram with an ACER 18.5 X183CH crt and it booted livecd. However like 2.0 the fonts are so big it overpowers (takes up) too much real estate and is not acceptable. The splash screen has the buttons only showing the top half. A site like yahoo is too big to fit the screen.
Until this is corrected...

Is webcam streaming possible in Slitaz

Tunyawat — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:10:45 +0200

Hi, I want to view my other offices through a webcam attached on a Slitaz computer. Is there an application that provide a webcam streaming capability like the webcam-server in ubuntu?

startx doesn't work

ob1 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:03:29 +0200

After trying several times to run the live cd (v3.0), my machines get held up when I type startx, whether it's as root or tux. My newest machine is a toshiba with 1.5 gb ram, intel 3.4 processor. The screen says "fatal error - no screen detected". All I've read about slitaz is good so i want to try it. Puppy Linux works fine on all my machines. thanks

[SOLVED] Error in libxml2-2.7.6.tazpkg (2010-01-30)

funkturm — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:39:44 +0200

Hello all,

I think we have an error in package libxml2-2.7.6.tazpkg.

When I extract this package i didn't have a directory called fs.

I put the three needed files to this package, then the new build works fine.

Best regards
Christian

Problem: init can't open log to /dev/tty... and impossible to boot

euphory — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:56:51 +0200

Hi,
I am new to Slitaz, and have probleme for running it on my PC. After installation, on the boot I have this message :
- can't open log to /dev/tty2: no such file or directory
- init : can't log to /dev/tty3: no such file or directory
...
and impossible to acces my installation.

I need your help, I have a lot of PC that I whish to install this distro.
Thanks

New mirror of SliTaz in Greece?

bilias — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:55:36 +0200

Hi,

Our department would like to mirror SliTaz in our public
http/ftp mirror http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr

Would you please provide mirror details? (rsync access?)
If you are interested please contact me at

bilias [at] edu . physics . uoc . gr

regards,

Kapetanakis Giannis
System & Network Admin
Computer Center
University of Crete

Live cd problem on username and password

scottums777 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:48:58 +0200

Wow i cant run the live cd on my compaq laptop... it asks for user name and password... tried root and root, root no password. Everything I know to do. Cd loads and stops at this point and I cant sign in on the live cd. The same cd works on my desktop and I even installed it to HD. Never did ask for user name and password on the desktop live boot.... just worked on that perfect??? Any one know why and what to do?????? help

Questions on Huawei E220 at /dev/ttyUSB0

Arnljot — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:12:30 +0200

Downloaded 3.0 a couple days ago and I like what I get. Using opensuse 11.2 64-bit else but have looked for a distro that suites my need. I have a Huawei E220 modem since a couple of years and after kernel > 20 it was easy to use. I have used kppp earlier and tried to go for anything like that i slitaz. Wvdial worked in suse but I found gnome-ppp could be almost the same as kppp. New to the distro it took me a day to get it working and the key to that was to load module option. The rest was just to fill in the phone number *99# and the USB port. It's a simple setup but it works. I have disabled the PIN some time ago. Two things to fix remains:
For user other than root error msg "/dev/ttyUSB0 busy" appear and no connection.
Gnome-ppp says "waiting for prompt" and delays connection by half a minute.
Any suggestions welcomed. Thanks in advance.

[SOLVED] how to make new kernel module available (without the wok) ?

Totoetsasoeur — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:29:08 +0100

hi,
After compiling kernel with new module ti_usb_3410_5210, I am wondering how to make it available for the fresh compiled kernel.

Here are the files *.ko related to ./usb/serial/ after new kernel compilation:


root@slitaz:~# ls /my_wok/slitaz/wok/linux/linux-2.6.30.6/drivers/usb/serial/*ko
/my_wok/slitaz/wok/linux/linux-2.6.30.6/drivers/usb/serial/ch341.ko
/my_wok/slitaz/wok/linux/linux-2.6.30.6/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.ko
/my_wok/slitaz/wok/linux/linux-2.6.30.6/drivers/usb/serial/option.ko
/my_wok/slitaz/wok/linux/linux-2.6.30.6/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.ko
/my_wok/slitaz/wok/linux/linux-2.6.30.6/drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko
/my_wok/slitaz/wok/linux/linux-2.6.30.6/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.ko
root@slitaz:~#

I did installed the fresh compiled kernel with:


root@slitaz:~# tazpkg install /my_wok/slitaz/packages/linux-2.6.30.6.tazpkg --forced

But not all new modules seem to be loadable (actually only 3 instead of 6 modules):


root@slitaz:~# ls /lib/modules/2.6.30.6-slitaz/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/
ch341.ko.gz      pl2303.ko.gz     usbserial.ko.gz
root@slitaz:~#

Would anyone be so kind to tell me:
- q1) why only 3 modules (ch341.ko.gz, pl2303.ko.gz and usbserial.ko.gz) are available instead of the 6 requested modules (ch341.ko, ftdi_sio.ko, option.ko, pl2303.ko, ti_usb_3410_5052.ko and usbserial.ko)?
- q2) what is the procedure to make those 6 modules available for loading with modprobe?

Thank you for you feedback.
Stephane

[SOLVED] How to add "ti_usb_3410_5052" module in kernel (using the wok)?

Totoetsasoeur — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:27:48 +0100

Hi,
I would like to add the "ti_usb_3410_5052" module in my kernel. I know it is available for linux kernel, but is not from Slitaz repository (as far as know).

I have no idea on how to do this on slitaz and, as I understood, Slitaz devs are pretty busy right now with stable 3.

Could anyone be so kind advising me on how to do this?
Thank you for your hints.
Stephane

No taskbar / Yes taskbar

Tom2010 — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:59:30 +0200

Old Dell Latitude: 254MB memory, 30GB HDD. Ethernet Cat5 to Nic. PS2 mouse.

I thought I'd just post this to help any Linux Newbies like me. I've install Slitaz on my Dell laptop. I first installed the Stable-version but did not get the resolution option during boot. It ran and installed but I had a black border around the screen, the resolution not filling the full screen. I then clicked on the 'LiveCD to taste' link one the download page and downloaded the slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso. This gave me the resolution option and fills my screen 1024x768.

My main point in posting this is I've found that if I start the laptop with my power lead plugged in, the system does boot OK but does not show the taskbar. All I need do is make sure the power lead is unplugged when I switch on. I did find a solution on the forum which suggested this saying "remove the battery plugin" but being a bit dense I thought it meant the software plugin of the taskbar GUI showing the battery content. It was hours before I realized I actually had to just pull out the power lead. Well, I am 60.

Thank you all on the Forum.

Tom

Automated convert/install script

Rupp — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:52:20 +0200

I wrote a simple script that can somewhat automate SliTaz's converting and installing of different binaries i.e. (.deb,rpm,tgz,pkg.tar.gz). You'll see the script below. I am just gonna tell you some things you will want to do. You will want to edit the line "cd /home/*/Downloads" if you download to a different folder. So copy and paste either of the two scripts at the bottom to a text file. I named mine conv-install but you can name it anything then I symlinked it like this after I knew it worked:

ln -s /home/*/scripts/conv-install

Then when you download something to your download folder. Do this from terminal as root:

conv-install /home/*/Downloads/myexample.deb

It will then convert and install for you.

Below are the two scripts:
Short version. This one just converts and installs.


#! /bin/bash

# automated convert and install script from downloaded binaries.
# created 4/17/2010
# creator Rupp

cd /home/*/Downloads
    for file in $*
    do
        echo
        echo 
        echo Converting $file
        echo 
	tazpkg convert $file
    done
        echo
        echo
        echo
        echo
    for t in *.tazpkg; do
        tazpkg install "$t" --forced
   done

Full one below with the options of moving your converted ".tazpkg" to a backup folder after it is installed. Then an option to delete the original binary. You can answer no also. It will just skip those steps


#! /bin/bash

# automated convert and install script from downloaded binaries.
# created 4/17/2010
# creator Rupp
cd /home/*/Downloads
    for file in $*
    do
        echo
        echo 
        echo Converting $file
        echo 
	tazpkg convert $file
    done
        echo
        echo
        echo
        echo
    for t in *.tazpkg; do
        tazpkg install "$t" --forced
   done
   echo
   echo
  read -p "Should I move the .tazpkg to your backup folder? ";
if [ $REPLY == "y" ]; then
    echo
    echo
    echo done;
fi

    for t in *.tazpkg; do
        mv "$t" /media/disk/tazpkg
   done
      echo
      echo 
      echo
  read -p "Should I delete the original binary you converted?";
if [ $REPLY == "y" ]; then
    echo
    echo
    echo done;
fi
    for file in $*
    do
        echo
        echo 
	rm $file
    done
        echo
        echo

Give it a try. I have made another one for those of you who installed pacman from Archlinux. Download and convert then install from command line similar to tazpkg get-install. If anyone is interested in it let me know.

Rupp

P.S. If you edit it let me know. I'd like to see what you've done to make it even better.

ClerType fonts

Aurel — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:46:55 +0200

Hi all..
Im really fascinating with SliTaz and i installed him on my old computer.
he works perfectly.
Only thing which i dont like on any linux distros are this plished fonts.
I wanna know is there a way to change fonts that look clear like on windows .
Only clear font is Fixed.
or maby is there a program for linux with which i can make some new cleartype fonts myself.
is there anyone here who can put me in right direction.?

thanks advance
Aurel

Thinkpad 560Z (PII, 233MHz, 98MB RAM), no CD but floppy and USB, possible?

gychang — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:36:25 +0200

I have nearly a mint cosmetically old Laptop, how can I install Slitaz, nearly a beginner... I would need noram version?, and initial floppy to redirect to USB with memory card?

Appreciate step by step if possible.

gychang

Setting Time Question

Rupp — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:53:08 +0100

Hey guys I have a problem with keeping the time set in Slitaz. I can set the time with hwclock and no matter what I do it resets itself when I reboot. It is not the BIOS battery, the actual hardware clock is correct, timezone is correct, and local or utc doesn't make a difference whatsoever. It is still 4 hours off. I used every "hwclock" and "date" setting and nothing works. I even tried adding the hwclock to a boot script that doesn't work either. I have to set it after logging in. I do that through openbox's autostart.sh .

I also noticed that even after I set the time correct on boot that it is still 4-5hrs off in gmail. I had similar problems with gmail in Puppy Linux because I didn't set the timezone before checking my email after a fresh install. Clearing the cache and cookies and logging back in fixed that. I can do the same in Slitaz but it is still 4-5hrs off. Then because I change my time I get this message when I boot: "filesystem last write in the future". Sorry if the wording is off but I am going by memory. Then it checks for errors. Not everytime though. That is my only problem with slitaz and I feel it is going to lead to corrupting the install. I just thought I would ask because I am at a loss.

Thank you for reading this,

Rupp

P.S. I've used ntp once connected to the net but that is pointless if it resets itself after a reboot or power down.

[SOLVED] A difficult case for xorg

jpeg — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:04:54 +0200

I have tried the live CD on an oldish computer and I just get vertical colored lines. Pretty.
The xvesa flavor works fine. at 800x600. I haven't tried to get a better resolution than that.

If I install and try xrandr it says:
> Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 640 x 480, maximum 640 x 480
> default connected 640x480+0+0 0mm x 0mm
> 640x480 0.0*

Nevertheless a look inside the Xorg log file shows
> (II) VESA(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
> (II) VESA(0): 720x400@70Hz
> (II) VESA(0): 640x480@60Hz
> (II) VESA(0): 640x480@75Hz
> (II) VESA(0): 800x600@60Hz
> (II) VESA(0): 800x600@75Hz
> (II) VESA(0): 1024x768@60Hz
> (II) VESA(0): 1024x768@75Hz
I suppose those are the modes the driver can do, not necessarily ones that the monitor can do as well, because right after that comes the EDID info and a pile of Modelines, one of which is
> (II) VESA(0): Modeline "1024x768"x85.0 94.39 1024 1088 1200 1376 768 769 772 807 -hsync +vsync (68.6 kHz)
After that it says
> (II) VESA(0): Searching for matching VESA mode(s):
the best of which is
> Mode: 105 (1024x768)
but that seems to be only 8 bit color depth
Then it says
> (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 30.00-69.00 kHz
> (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 48.00-120.00 Hz
> (II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1024 768" (no mode of this name)
> (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "640x400" (no mode of this name)
> (--) VESA(0): Virtual size is 640x480 (pitch 640)
> (**) VESA(0): Built-in mode "640x480"

and some colored vertical lines appear.
Strangely enough the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file has *no* Modes lines and adding them doesn't help.

I then tried tazx and installed the intel drivers since lspci says:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 02)
The following packages got installed:
> linux-agp, linux-drm, mesa-dri, mesa-dri, xorg-libXv, xorg-libXvMC, xorg-xf86-video-intel

The result: X won't even start!
> (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such device)
> (EE) intel(0): AGP GART support is not available. Make sure your kernel has
> agpgart support or that the agpgart kernel module is loaded.
> UnloadModule: a pile of modules
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

A few checks:
cat /proc/modules
> agpgart 25980 0 - Live 0xe073b000
ls -l /dev/agpgart
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 175 Mar 28 17:49 /dev/agpgart
The logfile has the same EDID info in it and the same Modelines
The xorg.conf file uses the intel driver, and it still doesn't have and Modes specified in it, and adding them still doesn't help.
Adding write permissions for everyone on /dev/agpgart doesn't help.

Kernel 2.33.2 fails to build...

Robertugo — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:32:55 +0200

Hello and congratulations for the high quality of Slitaz.
My problem is that I cannot compile the new kernel 2.33.2-slitaz, I believe that it can be due to a problem with the patch LZMA since the error that takes place is this:

CC lib/decompress_bunzip2.o
lib/decompress_bunzip2.c: In function ‘get_next_block’:
lib/decompress_bunzip2.c:511: warning: the frame size of 1916 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes
CC lib/decompress_inflate.o
CC lib/decompress_unlzma.o
lib/decompress_unlzma.c: In function ‘process_bit0’:
lib/decompress_unlzma.c:352: error: ‘LZMA_LEN_CODER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
lib/decompress_unlzma.c:352: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
lib/decompress_unlzma.c:352: error: for each function it appears in.)
lib/decompress_unlzma.c: In function ‘process_bit1’:
lib/decompress_unlzma.c:405: error: ‘LZMA_LEN_CODER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
lib/decompress_unlzma.c: In function ‘unlzma’:
lib/decompress_unlzma.c:619: error: ‘LZMA_LEN_CODER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [lib/decompress_unlzma.o] Error 1
make: *** [lib] Error 2
root@slitaz:/usr/src/linux-2.6.33.2-slitaz#

From I already thank any suggestion and continue ahead...!
Best regards.

midori changes its settings

saneks — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:35:15 +0200

strange behaviour with midori: I changed my settings to my liking, but midori jumped to other icon setting with text below, changed order and added a unnecessary google searchbar and a bin in the navigationbar... Don't know how to get my old settings back or how to change. happened before,last time I reinstalled midori.

Is there a package for Frostwire?

Elder_V_LaCoste — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:08:25 +0200

I really like Slitaz. I have had a little trouble with hplip cups printing but other than that it has been fantastic.
Is there a package for Frostwire?

Thanks,

E.V.L.

Is it possible to frugally install SliTaz3 with persistence on a HDD? I can't find a working Howto

simon — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:45:24 +0200

Dear SliTaz users,
I am completely new to installing operating systems and to using anithing else than -doze.
Yet I have the last few days running into ram several Puppy's and a TCL each from another folder on the same 5GB ext3 partition of my 18GB HDD of my laptop (Dell Inspiron C540 with 512MB ram). I am trying to do the same with SliTaz since I find it such a user friendly distro. However i cannot find working instructions on he site, forum, wikki and google. What I did is: I extracted from the SliTaz ISO the kernel (bzImage) and ramdisk image (rootfs.gz) into a folder named "SliTaz" beside those of my other frugal installs on the hda3 (ext3) partition. I added to my grub4dos menu.lst which is chainloaded by NLTDR on my Windows XP hda1 partition the following entry:
title SliTaz (persistent)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /SliTaz/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 psubdir=SliTaz lang=en kmap=be-latin1 screen=1024x768x24 home=hda3
initrd /SliTaz/rootfs.gz
boot

SliTaz is running perfectly fine. In fact i'm writing this from it now. But any changes I make befor exiting are lost upon reboot. How can I make this install persistent. And is it possible to save the changes inside the SliTaz folder or in one compressed file like Puppy does?
Many thanks for your help.
Simon

force screen resolution

oss — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:49:32 +0200

I use vga=792 and screen=1024x768x24 as options on kernel line. Nevertheless, Slitaz 3.0 runs in 800x600. How can I force another resolution?
When I used Slitaz 2.0 I didn't experience this problem.

[SOLVED] get-virtualbox broken for upgrade to VirtualBox 3.1.6

monz — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:49:55 +0200

On a SliTaz 3.0 stable system, i had VirtualBox 3.1.2 working fine, with the single exception that in my Windows XP guest i could not play audio or video files, with either Windows Media Player or Winamp.

So i thought upgrading to the latest version of VirtualBox might help ... but when i use the get-virtualbox script, i get this error message:


# get-virtualbox
Connecting to download.virtualbox.org (72.5.124.114:80)
VirtualBox-3.1.6-593 100% |*******************************| 50519k 00:00:00 ETA
Creating directory install
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation.........
/usr/bin/get-virtualbox: line 64: +patch: not found

I have patch installed on my system, but i don't understand most of the get-virtualbox script, so i don't know what is wrong. Clicking on the VirtualBox desktop icon does nothing. I also did


# find / | grep VirtualBox

and, as expected, did not find an executable for VirtualBox. So now i have no VirtualBox at all. Please help.