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? slitaz on pda ?

lmart — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:48:50 +0200

Has anyone replaced WinCE on HP iPAQ h1910 with SliTaz?

/home in another partition and amount of space necessary

eldersoares — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:29:58 +0200

hello!
i'd like to install slitaz, but i don't have much free space. i already have ubuntu installed. so i thought i could use the same ubuntu partition to store the /home directory. ubuntu has an option to do it. Can i do the same with slitaz???
also, how much free space i'll need in the slitaz partition? is 50MB enough? or maybe 100MB?

thankss in advance!!

Epiphany - Gnome applications

moulefrite — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:34:17 +0200

Hi,

What about having Epiphany on Slitaz ? It use the same render engine than Midori
- Webkit . It's seems more stable and you can do good config with about:config

Should be cool to have all that gnome application suite working with gtk theme

-Epiphany web browser
-Gnome Mplayer
-AbiWord
-Gnumeric
-Glom or Gnome DB
-Evince

[SOLVED] Slitaz on USB ext3

MSaadat — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:39:45 +0200

I installed slitaz following Handbook book instructions on HD Installation("Installation by hand") onto a usb drive formatted as ext3. But I am unable to boot; kernel panics(unable to mount root). Kernel also displays a list of possible root devices, but my usb device is not listed.

Thanks

Broken package(s)?

fopetesl — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:47:05 +0200

I installed gcc V4 since trying V3 only forces an install of V4.
Also does not include the assembler so in this state is usless for me since I need to generate exectuables.

I also downloaded the latest version of cups from their website (because cups is broken on my machine - see "no localhost") but cannot complete because ./config bales out and suggests I use autoconf to make a new ./config.

This means I need to install autoconf.
I did this but two dependencies are missing: perl (autom4e) & m4.

Sad because Slitaz is so brilliant in other ways.

need help!n have a linksys usb card but cant connect ? need to update and fix model number wusb54gc

deli — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:55:46 +0200

i need help getting this comp connected so i can fix this comp my friend needs this for school

EXTLINUX

moulefrite — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:40:04 +0200

Hi

I have a short question :

I would like to boot an rootfs in a USB
from an EXTLINUX installed on the hardrive.
(ve heard that grub is bad for that job)

For exemple, here's what we get in extlinux.conf after creating a typical LiveUSB :

--------------------------------------------
display extlinux.msg

label slitaz
kernel /boot/bzImage
append initrd=/boot/rootfs.gz rw root=/dev/null vga=normal autologin home=*****

include common.cfg

---------------------------------------------

Or, i would like this extlinux.conf to have a label that aim Windows on
C: drive ...

So... I've found no documentation in the handbook which explains how
and where I can introduce and configure ExTLINUX for cross-partition-installing

Somebody can give me an answer ?

THX

Slitaz issues.

bitsplash — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:32:08 +0200

I have used slitaz 2.0 for sometime, not the cooking version. I shut the 900 mhz pc down, and when I rebooted everything was messed up. The o/s would not even boot. At the same time hoping these issues were resolved I downloaded slitaz 3.0. The regular version with xorg simply does not support the i752 chipset from intel. It just does not support it at all. Never has. So I installed slitaz 3.0 vesa edition recommended on the forum. Yay I have video agian. But now none of the virtual consoles work. So I boot slitaz 3.0 vesa edition to text terminal, and i can switch between virtual consoles by hitting ctrl-alt-f1 through ctrl-alt-f6 for terminals 1-6. Also when the gui slitaz 3.0 vesa edition boots into xwindows i loose my function keys, and my numlock, capslock, and scroll lock keys no longer work at all. But in text mode they work fine. I installed slitaz on the hardisk, then rebooted without the cd, and the computer reports no operating system exists. So I formatted with partition magic, acronis disk director, and several other such tools, even removing the mbr completely. Because I had problems writing the mbr to the hard disk. I scanned the hard disk all day with various error checking tools and never even got a single bad block using norton disk doctor, victoria, mhdd, and several others. My system sits behind a firewall 24/7, and I only use it for web and irc. My next question is, this seems like a rootkit. Where is it coming from? What do all of you think? I thought there were only 8 viruses for linux, have I been fortunate enough to find one of them? Any help at all is greatly appreciated. I can now start building my slitaz machine back, as I have another pc I can use for irc.

Slitaz 3.0 is released

jozee — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:36:41 +0200

Hi all,

In case you haven't noticed yet, SliTaz team has released SliTaz 3.0. Download the iso and read the announcement: http://www.slitaz.org/

Read release notes for more details: http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/releases/3.0/relnotes.en.html

A huge thanks to all of you for your support.

Cheers,

SliTaz Team

Play FLV File (VLC and MPlayer)

maxx — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:16:41 +0100

I have used Search box on this forum to find a player of FLV file, but it seems no one has discussed about it. I have a problem when play FLV file which I download from YouTube using VLC. It needs some codec which can play the sound "mp4a", but VLC can't find it on the default installation of tazpkg file.

Have you got an idea how to play FLV file using VLC or Mplayer?

Need help and regards,

Maxx

Fotoxx 5.10.5

davesurrey — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:41:14 +0200

I did report this some while ago but nothing has happened.
In the v3 repositories Fotoxx still doesn't work.

Gives error messages
need exiv2
need printoxx2
/usr/share/locales/en_GB/*.po ...no such file/directory

Dave

eee fn-keys and touchpad support?

saneks — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:23:16 +0200

hello,

slitaz is very nice on my small eee701, but I miss some things:

- no scrolling with touchpad possible
- when I (double)"click" the touchpad, it does not "hold" things like scroll-bars, files etc. any way to fix that?
- fn keys for volume/network/wireless etc not working
- any way to shut down the computer when battery is low? also battery indicator would be good.

can someone provide instructions or a link? did not find anything.

useful script directory link creator

pizux — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:00:13 +0200

hi , i've made a little script for linking any directory to your desktop , iam a beginner in shell script, for now the script use zenity for choosing the directory you want to link, but maybe someone could adapt it with gtkdialog , please could you test it and give me the bugs
you have to install zenity from tazpkg first thanks :
for beginners copy the following code in an empty file and under pcmanfm right click propiety right select execute

################################################################
#!/bin/bash
##script dlc desktop-link-creator##pizuxmepis ate gmail point com
##the .desktop create got the suffix (dlc-)foo.desktop for dissociate from other one
cd $HOME
if [ -e .config/user-dirs.dirs ]; then
. .config/user-dirs.dirs
else
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
fi
mkdir -p $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR
DIR() {
name=$(zenity --file-selection \
--directory --title="Choose a directory to link on your desktop")
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then exit; fi;
base=$(basename $name)
cd /home/$USER/Desktop
if [ -e dlc-$base.desktop ]; then
zenity --warning --text=\
"This directory link already exist, please choose another one or delete it from your desktop "; cd $HOME ; DIR
else
echo "[Desktop Entry]
Comment=pcmanfm link to directory $name
Name=$base
Exec=pcmanfm $name
Icon=folder
Type=Application
Terminal=false
NotShowIn=KDE;XFCE;GNOME;" >>dlc-$base.desktop
fi
}
DIR
############################################################

slitaz 3.0 and sun virtual box

vid — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:34:26 +0200

I just created a slitaz 3.0 virtual machine with sun virtual box and everything went OK until I tried to reboot with lots of other packages installed (lighttpd, php, xorg-dev, etc). The kernel crashes just after switching to NOherz mode while trying to unpack the rootfs. Does anyone know what I can do to get around this problem?

Arch Pacman on Slitaz, please help me...

Cyberbree — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:17:07 +0100

Hi,

i would like to install Archs Pacman on Slitaz. I read that it is possible in a previous thread.
After trying, a lib called libfetch is missing. Can somebody tell me how to install libfetch? I am knew at Linux so a "noob" Howto would do it :-)

Slitaz 3.0 INTEL driver DRI 3D failed

roozeec — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:07:32 +0200

Hi All,

I want to use the dri features in order to use accelerated hardware display for the Intel driver on my hardware.
The xorg server (2.7.1) loads ok with the drm and agpgart modules loaded but the initialisation of the Direct rendering Infrastructure failed

I get the following errors :

drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:00:02.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card3
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card4
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card5
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
....
....

I only have the /dev/dri , but this is not a directory ....

Anyone knows what is missing ?

Thanks

screen res

dzon65 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:15:31 +0200

I had to order a new HD so for now I'm running slitaz live.The only problem is that my screen resolution is not recognized.It runs at 800X600 while this is a 1280X800 screen making it totally unusable.What can I do about this?

[SOLVED] Slitaz 3.0 custom iso , Firefox 3.5.7 makes kernel crash ....

roozeec — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:13:19 +0200

Hi All,

I made a custom slitaz distribution with Slitaz 3.0 with my scripts. After burning to a usb pendrive, everthing goes weel, the xorg runs and the display is correct. I modified my scripts just to add the tazpkg get-install firefox to them, the iso generation is correct. But when it load, the kernel crash after some time.
I look at the display, and the messages ...rootfs ...unpacking initramfs (or some thing like that) is display and I see some dots (....) indicating thaht it's loading. But after a certain amount of time the kernel crash.

Did someone have this problem ?

I suspect maybe that the decompression in ram in not bigger enough, but I have 1Gb of RAM.....

Thanks for your help

Regards

Slitaz on Fujitsu Siemens Amilo pi 1505

dr3mro — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:43:10 +0200

Hello , I am An ubuntu user and i read about slitaz decided to give it a spin and downloaded the ISO file , checked md5sum and all ok then i burnt it to CD and checked it all is ok , then i rebooted all works except X server not starting at all and gives me error it also not working on sun vortualbox .. but it works on my brother toshiba l500 laptop :) weired

edit the menulist in the iso

dzon65 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:28:03 +0200

1)I'm a pc neanderthal
2)....So,need some help on how to change the menulist in boot/grub from the 3.0 iso in order to make it boot into a 1280X800 resolution using it as a live cd.
3)tried to do it in ubuntu but getting some restriction errors.
Kind regards,J.

[3.0] No Xorg after USB install

rent0n — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:03:01 +0200

Hi Slitaz community,

I've just installed Slitaz 3.0 on my USB key but there's something wrong as after rebooting I am dropped to tty1 and can't start X.

Here's what I've done:
1. Boot the live cd
2. tazusb format /dev/sda1
3. tazusb gen-liveusb
4. tazusb writefs gzip
5. Reboot

Slitaz boots without errors but slim doesn't start and I log in as tux in a text-only environment.
If I try to 'startx' I am prompted to Install Xorg and to select a driver from a list. The problem is that the list is empty and I can only quit the xorg configuration wizard. I also get an error saying that '~/.xsession' does not exist but creating it does not solve the issue.

I really can't understand what is going on but I think that the 'bug'is probably related to Xorg or to some missing package.

Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

Cheers,

[SOLVED] nvidia videocard installation question / problem

Killerkaninchen — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:53:39 +0200

Hi all

I have a Nvidia videocard and I wanted to install the proprietary driver. I saw the package "nvidia" and get-installed it. Then I edited xorg.conf. After rebooting Slitaz falls back to console. If I put "nv" instead of "nvidia" in my xorg.conf, then everything is fine.

Using nvidia-xconfig didnt't change anything.

The nvidia-installer from the package nvidia showed me this error:
ERROR: No package found for installation.

Then I tried the way described here: http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:nvidia
Compiling did not work, but since then I have the actual nvidia-driver (195.36.15)!?

Because I want to use Slitaz on different machines, I want to understand what went wrong and how do I install the proprietary nvidia-driver, so I can reproduce it next time. Is there an easy way using the package nvidia to install the driver?

Thanks in advance
Killerkaninchen

add fonts

tikbalang — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:10:01 +0200

I think as root you paste your fonts folder in /usr/share/fonts with the same permissions properties as the existing folders.

I do not know if all fonts work.

Creating a non-Slitaz LiveCD using Tazlito?

Kemas — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:29:27 +0200

Hi guys,

I am just wondering whether it is possible to create a LiveCD based on another Linux distribution, for example Slackware, Debian or Ubuntu using Tazlito. Does anybody ever try doing this before? If you don't mind, please share your experience with me and other users. I am sure many would appreciate that.

Furthermore, the Tazlito manual on Documentation seems not available (404 Not Found) at the moment and I also am not able to search and retrieve any packages information through this link, http://pkgs.slitaz.org/. It looks like that part is not working properly or not connected yet to the packages database.

Thanks and hopefully someone would respond to this.

Regards,
Kemas

How to keep installed software?

saneks — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:22:47 +0200

thanks alot for creating a new Slitaz! I really liked the distro from the start and it now feels a lot better than 2.0.

But how do I keep installed software?

I try home=usb while booting, so I keep some settings:

- background
- new menu entries
- root-passwords are kept (not in wifi manager)
- I created config files for wbar/conky/... in /home

but mplayer, conky, wbar, gimp, abiword etc.. are not kept!

I am not sure if home=usb uses the ssd drive of my eee rather than the actual thumbdrive: I found my crunchbang installation filled up with a 260MB big slitaz folder when playing with "tazusb writefs"

My theory: /home is kept on usb, but not the root-filesystem with the new programs.

So how can I make the root filesystem save changes back to my live-usb? It is formatted FAT,cause Unetbootin does not work here on my Linux. I want to make changes and save back to the stick. That's all, but I find it a tricky task. Or do I have to make a "real" install to the USB key or my harddisk/ssd to have installs that stay?

Thanks for help!

How to install a network card driver

Dennis — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:08:58 +0100

I'm using a fairly new lenovo PC with an intel network card. Slitaz doesn't detect it. How do I install the driver so that it will be detected?

SliTaz 3.0 problems with root cli

davesurrey — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:21:56 +0200

With SliTaz 3.0 if I do

 su -
password
thunar

then I get


Xlib:connection to “:0.0” refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

and also if I do this with leafpad, asunder,gnumeric......

This means I can't make modifications to any files that need root permission.
This seems a fundamental problem.

Anyone else seen this?
How can this be fixed?
Dave

ISA-Laptop floppy install

mitscherdinger — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:09:35 +0200

Yeah! Hardcore!

I'm using an old noname Pentium-Classic-laptop for installing slitaz with the floppy-method on it. Downloaded the latest 5-disk-floppy set (3.0). Booting went fine but now I'm stuck with some hardware-issues.

The main thing is, how to get the kernel and the rootfs.gz-file to my harddisk. The hd is partitioned and mounted. I have two possibilities to copy the data to my system, now: cd-rom or network. The laptop doesn't have any PCI-devices, it's an ISA-only-machine. But it has a pcmcia and a scsi-port. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get one of them ready.

lsmod says, the only module loaded is "floppy". There are no scsi- or pcmcia-drivers loaded by default. (So, inserting a pcmcia-card doesn't cause any reaction.) pccardctl doesn't say anything. Can't find any modules named "sg or "sr" or any other scsi-modules.

Any hints for what I can do, now?

Greetings!
Mitsch

iso 3.0

dzon65 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:20:21 +0200

Hi.Was wondering,is there maintanance going on at the download site?Downloaded the latest iso three times now and it doesn't boot at all.Tried several marques of cd but....Never had any problems with this.

Those with Xorg issues. Possible fix

Rupp — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:36:07 +0200

I notice some people are having problems with Xorg in the new version. I helped someone earlier fix it in IRC at an unoffocial slitaz channel at freenode. (channel is #slitaz) if you feel like joining. On to a fix for at least intel if what I describe below is the actual problem.

Download the Intel driver you need. If you read the wiki you would know what to look for.

Now download this:

tazpkg get-install linux-agp

Then as root edit rcS.conf

nano /etc/rcS.conf

Add "agpgart" and "intel-agp" to look something like below. Don't pay attention to the other stuff. Everyone's computer is different Just have the two I showed you in that order.

LOAD_MODULES="snd_intel8x0 yenta_socket agpgart intel-agp"

Then from terminal as root modprobe agpgart and intel-agp

modprobe agpgart

modprobe intel-agp

then try to startx.

Maybe that can help out some of you.

Rupp