I'm new to the Slitaz distro, but from what I have seen I'm very impressed. I loaded Slitaz almost seemlessly to my Dell latitude CPX H PIII 500 mhz laptop with 256MB ram. The best thing was I setup this laptop for my newphew with ubuntu 8.10 a year ago since he is incapable of using windows without virusing the heck out of it in a day or 2. The unit worked just ok for a while,, pretty slow with the speed and amount of RAM in hardy... but it was usuable.
I found Slitaz flies on this same Machine, The issue was the 40Gb hard drive failed, and all I has for a spare was a 1.3gb hard drive I pulled out of a pentium 100mhz texas instruments laptop a few years back,, slitaz installed with room to spare! It took a while to find a pcmcia wireless card to work partly because of my inexperience with Slitaz but that was not too difficult a task.. The biggest drawback right now is the resolution, its stuck at 800x600. This machine can do 1024x768 which makes using a web browser doable. The laptop has an ATI M1 8MB graphics card. I have tried everything I know of. I have modified the xorg.conf (which usually leads to X not working) I have used tazx to load the ATI, Vesa, Intel, drivers.... those do virtually nothing. I loaded ATI catalyst,, still nothing.. I know its an ancient card, but Crunch bang boots right up to 1024 X 768. This is my only drawback right now, and I get a huge kick out of re-using "antiquated hardware". Can someone help?
Was it a stupid question? I have been digging through the forums but havent quite found anything to work. Its a common laptop and was hoping someone might have had some luck with it.
I can't help you with your video card, but below is my modified Screen section of xorg.conf that gave me a resolution of 1024x768. I'm not a very sophisticated user, but this at least gave me the resolution that I wanted:
Back up and rename your original xorg.conf file so you can retrieve a working one in case this doesnt work for you. Basically, I cut everything out of the Screen section that I did'nt want and put in that Modes line. Works for me with my old ATI card and the Vesa driver, but, of course, your mileage may vary.
@verault, hope you were able to fix the resolution. If you did, don't bother reading further.
If you still haven't, you might want to check back on the basics. I once spent a whole day trying to figure out my resolution issue, only to realize that the driver I thought I had loaded wasn't being utilized at all, instead Slitaz was loading the default vesa driver. Turns out, xorg was looking at /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf whereas I had made the changes in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (stable uses xorg.conf, cooking uses a new version of xorg that does things differently).
Thanks for the heads up. I will check on that in the future. I actually didnt get the driver to work but with some messing around I was able to get the vesa driver to display a higher resolution. The problem is when I install/update I tend to lose the higher res again and revert back to a max of 800 x 600. I love slitaz and all the hard work everyone is putting into it, I just wish there were far less annoying minor bugs... i.e. midori constantly crashing, resolution nightmares, and lxpanel issues.... Oh well cant have everything... Thanks all.