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Comments on Testing SliTaz 5.0 RC1 on 3 PCs

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• Started 9 years ago by kubepc
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   kubepc
   

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   I tested SliTaz 5.0 RC1 from CD on the following three computers Quanmax KUBE-8060 (a fanless box with HM55 chipset and i5 M 540 CPU), Quanmax KUBE-8080 (a fanless box with QM67 chipset and i5-2430M CPU, just bought) and on a Samsung 5 Series Ultra 530U3B notebook.

   All three do very well with SliTaz 4.0, but I had some problems on all three with SliTaz 5.0 RC1. The audio and the alsamixer work only when logged in as root. The ethernet is working out of the box on all three. But on the KUBE-8080 which has a LAN1 and LAN2 I had to disable LAN2 in the bios to use LAN1 as with SliTaz 4.0. When LAN1 and LAN2 are enabled, the connection to the internet is on LAN2. The video is good on the newer Quanmax KUBE-8080 at its monitor's native resolution 1920x1200 and also on the Samsung 530U3B at its native 1366x768, but not on the Quanmax KUBE-8060 at 1920x1200, showing only 1024x768 pixels in the upper left corner of the 1920x1200 monitor, the rest is dark.

   Saving an image from the midori browser, closes the browser. The galculator works only after reinstalling, but the tazwikiss not even works after reinstalling.

   I use SliTaz 4.0 on KUBE-8060 and KUBE-8080 with GRUB4DOS using a MENU.LST

   title SliTaz 4.0 GNU/Linux 1920x1200x24
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /bzImage lang=en_US kmap=us screen=1920x1200x24 rw autologin
   initrd /rootfs4.gz /rootfs3.gz /rootfs2.gz /rootfs1.gz

   Now I regret, that there is no screen option anymore with SliTaz 5.0 RC1. Also the Monitor Settings menu gives the native resolution as the only option. So I can't use resolutions like 1280x800 anymore with SliTaz 5.0 RC1 on my 1920x1200 monitor.

   Sometimes I boot an iso image of SliTaz 4.0 using GRUB4DOS with the MENU.LST

   title SliTaz 4.0 ISO CD image
   map --mem /slitaz-4.0.iso (hd32)
   map --hook
   chainloader (hd32)

   This method doesn't work with slitaz-5.0-rc1.iso

   I hope, that SliTaz 5.0 becomes as good as SliTaz 4.0.

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   necrophcodr
   

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   There might not be a screen option, but I'm pretty sure the vga option still works as it has always.

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   az_ua
   

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   I'm using video=1280x1024M-32@75 kernel option, as posted here http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/slitaz-50rc1/page/3#post-29711 works for tty+Xorg. so I think, it must be video=1920x1200M-32@60 Don't know about screen=, but vga= is for tty console only as I remember.

   Monitor Settings menu gives the native resolution as the only option?
   this is because base system doesn't contains some video driver files. Run tazx as root and choose driver.

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   kubepc
   

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   You were right.

   On the PC KUBE-8060 I had with SliTaz 5.0 RC1 directly from CD a screen showing only 1024x768 pixels in the upper left corner of the 1920x1200 monitor.

   I ran tazx as root, I chose reconfiguration of xorg with intel driver. It installed several packages. After a logout and a login I had a full screen at 1024x768. Then I was able to chose at Monitor Settings many resolutions. I chose 1920x1200 and got what I wanted.

   Thanks

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   kubepc
   

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   Meanwhile with SliTaz 5.0 RC2 I tried today on my KUBE-8060 your video=1920x1200M-32@60 kernel option in MENU.LST booting with grldr of GRUB4DOS. I have now a full screen at my monitors original resolution 1920x1200. It worked as well as video=1024x768M-32@60 making it easier for me to read everything. But I prefer to use my monitors original resolution with changing of fontsize in Preferences Appearence GTK+ as well as in Openbox Configuration Manager and Desktop Preferences. My MENU.LST is now

   timeout 100
   default 0

   title SliTaz 5.0 rc2 GNU/Linux Deutsch 1920x1200
   root (hd0,0)/sl5rc2
   kernel /bzImage lang=de_DE kmap=de-latin1 video=1920x1200-32@60 rw autologin
   initrd /rootfs4.gz /rootfs3.gz /rootfs2.gz /rootfs1.gz

   title SliTaz 5.0 rc2 GNU/Linux English US 1024x768
   root (hd0,0)/sl5rc2
   kernel /bzImage lang=en_US kmap=us video=1024x768M-32@60 rw autologin
   initrd /rootfs4.gz /rootfs3.gz /rootfs2.gz /rootfs1.gz

   I startet grldr (GRUB4DOS) on a Windows XP PC via ntldr and the following boot.ini

   [boot loader]
   timeout=5
   default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
   [operating systems]
   multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
   C:\grldr = "GRUB4DOS"

   The files bzImage, rootfs4.gz, rootfs3.gz, rootfs2.gz, rootfs1.gz from the CD or extracted from the ISO are in the directory (hd0,0)/sl5rc2 or C:\sl5rc2.

   Booting from CD I also tried your kernel option, but I couldn't produce the @ in
   boot: slitaz video=1920x1200M-32@60

   Posted 9 years ago #

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