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eugen-b

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Hello,
I've tried SliTaz on live USB and was impressed with its good looks. I was expecting to see s.th. like TinyCore, but it looks like well designed LXDE.
I was only a bit disappointed that openchrome driver wasn't preinstalled. And I don't understand the package management here. I have experience with Manajro, Porteus, LXLE and antiX/MEPIS MX-14. (On the last two openchrome works on my machine with Via Chrome9 HC GPU.) I would guess SliTaz is more like Porteus, you need to download a package, maybe convert it and place in a directory for modules to load at boot.
So, I would appreciate a brief guidance, where to get and how to install openchrome on SliTaz.
Thanks
eugen-b

Posted 9 years ago #
mojo

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Slitaz use its own tazpkg program to install <pkgname>.tazpkg
Post a download link for the openchrome video driver source code.
I'll try to build a tazpkg for it.

Posted 9 years ago #
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That would be really nice! I hope some day I will learn myself to create a .tazpkg, but for now your help would be invaluable!!
Here is the link to the Debian xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (1:0.2.906-2+deb7u1) package for Wheezy:
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
It works with xserver-xorg-core >= 1.12.3.901 and SliTaz also uses 1.12 series afaik. Newer xorg-core >= 1.13. wouldn't work on my machine with openchrome driver.
And here is the link to the source code (I suppose):
https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
Here is my $ inxi -G
Graphics: Card: VIA VX800/VX820 Chrome 9 HC3 Integrated Graphics
Display Server: X.Org 1.12.4 driver: openchrome
Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x209)
GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5

Posted 9 years ago #
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http://cook.slitaz.org/undigest/cooker.cgi?pkg=xorg-xf86-video-openchrome

http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/packages/undigest/xorg-xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.905.tazpkg

Posted 9 years ago #
eugen-b

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Ok, thank you very much!! But, please, help me with one more step. What am I supposed to do with these links?
- Let's assume I burn Rolling ISO on a USB stick with dd, then boot with it, then install. How do I install this package? Download and then issue: tazpkg get-install /path/to/xorg-xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.905.tazpkg
-Let's assume I burn Packages 4GB ISO on a USB stick. I did it already, but when I booted I couldn't find it. How would I find it if it was there? Is it there or will it be there on one of the next versions of Packages ISO?
Thanks for helping me!

Posted 9 years ago #
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@az_ua
Thanks for the link, I forgot to check the undigest repo.
@eugen-b
Booting into slitaz,connect to the internet.
Open terminal.
Type
su
Hit Enter key
Passwd:
Type
root
Hit Enter key
Type this command and hit Enter to fetch the tazpkg:
wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/packages/undigest/xorg-xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.905.tazpkg
Type this command hit Enter key to install:
tazpkg install xorg-xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.905.tazpkg
Logout/in to restart Xorg to see if it will use the new driver.
Check xorg log to verify its using the driver and for errors if there are problems.
less /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Posted 9 years ago #
eugen-b

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It worked, thank you both! Cпасибо, az_ua!
I post here my xorg.conf, because I have a problem being sent back to login screen after a short glimpse at the panel. This happens when I activate the "exa" settings, but it works with "xaa":

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Option "PreferredMode" "1366x768"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "openchrome"
Option "AccelMethod" "xaa"
Option "XaaNoImageWriteRect"
# Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
# Option "ExaScratchSize" "8192"
# Option "MaxDRIMem" "16384"
# Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "DRI" "true"
Option "ActiveDevice" "DFP"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection

I also attached the Xorg.0.logs in case you want take a look. Otherwise other users may profit from my info.
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Xorg.0.log (53 KB, 643 downloads) 9 years old
Posted 9 years ago #
mojo

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Both Xorg.0.logs have 2 errors (EE) due to missing files.
Use tazpkg to find the package that owns the missing file and install it.
This should get rid of the error and may improve the video performance.

[ 128.429] [drm] failed to load kernel module "via"
[ 128.429] (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.
[ 128.429] (EE) CHROME(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.

root@slitaz:/home/tux# tazpkg search-pkgname via.ko.xz | grep -i drm
linux-drm
linux64-drm
root@slitaz:/home/tux# tazpkg get-install linux-drm

[ 128.683] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

root@slitaz:/home/tux# tazpkg search-pkgname /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so

Search result for package "/usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so"
================================================================================
mesa-dri
================================================================================
1 package

root@slitaz:/home/tux# tazpkg get-install mesa-dri

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Thank you so much! It makes sense, I always install on other distros sth. with mesa, dri and drm for graphics.
But I have a problem now. Initially I could connect to WLAN but now I cannot. I made a mistake to try it without reading the handbook. I changed some settings in /etc/network.conf

#
# Wi-Fi settings.
#
# Enable/disable wireless connection at boot time.
WIFI="yes"
# Set "yes" if you don't want to store networks you're already connected.
WIFI_BLANK_NETWORKS="yes"
#
# Wi-Fi settings for iwconfig.
#
# Wi-Fi interface. It can auto-search interface if value below is fail.
WIFI_INTERFACE="wlan0"
# WPA driver; default is "wext" (Wireless Extension).
WIFI_WPA_DRIVER="wext"
# Set the operating mode of the device. The mode can be "Ad-Hoc", "Managed",
#  "Master", "Repeater", "Secondary", "Monitor" or "Auto".
WIFI_MODE="managed"
# Set the operating channel in the device. Empty by default.
WIFI_CHANNEL=""
# Force the card to register to the Access Point given by the address, if it's
# possible. Empty by default to automatic mode.
WIFI_AP=""
#
# Wi-Fi settings for wpa_supplicant (for given network).
#
# SSID (network name)
WIFI_ESSID="WLAN-890929"
# BSSID (optional), use this block to associate with the AP
WIFI_BSSID=""
# Wi-Fi security. Empty ("") for open network; "ANY" for trying many methods;
# "WEP" for WEP; "WPA" for WPA/WPA2-PSK; "EAP" for 802.1x EAP.
WIFI_KEY_TYPE="WPA"
# Password for WEP, WPA, EAP, WAPI, and ANY; both in ASCII or HEX form.
WIFI_KEY="********" # in clear text, right?
# Method for EAP: "PEAP", "TLS", "TTLS", "PWD".
WIFI_EAP_METHOD=""
# File path to CA certificate file (PEM/DER).
WIFI_CA_CERT=""
# File path to client certificate file (PEM/DER).
WIFI_CLIENT_CERT=""
# Identity string for EAP.
WIFI_IDENTITY=""
# Anonymous identity string for EAP.
WIFI_ANONYMOUS_IDENTITY=""
# Inner authentication parameters: "", "PAP", "MSCHAP", "MSCHAPV2", "GTC".
WIFI_PHASE2=""

I'm getting the error at boot that "wlan0" is not a wireless interface. I attached the part from boot log. For some reason I cannot attach it, so I have to copy ot here:

Processing: /etc/init.d/network.sh
Loading network settings from /etc/network.conf
Setting hostname to: slitaz                                           [ Done ]
Configuring loopback...                                               [ Done ]
ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
wlan0 is not a Wi-Fi interface, changing it.
Configuring Wi-Fi interface ...lo        no wireless extensions.

tunl0     no wireless extensions.

dummy0    no wireless extensions.

                                                                      [ Done ]
Creating new /etc/wpa/wpa.conf
Starting wpa_supplicant for WPA/WPA2-PSK...
wpa_supplicant: option requires an argument -- 'i'
wpa_supplicant v2.1
Copyright (c) 2003-2014, Jouni Malinen  and contributors

This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
See README for more details.

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)

usage:
  wpa_supplicant [-BddhKLqqtuvW] [-P] [-g] \
        [-G] \
        -i -c [-C] [-D] [-p] \
        [-b] [-e] \
        [-o] [-O] \
        [-N -i -c [-C] [-D] \
        [-p] [-b] [-I] ...]

drivers:
  nl80211 = Linux nl80211/cfg80211
  wext = Linux wireless extensions (generic)
  wired = Wired Ethernet driver
options:
  -b = optional bridge interface name
  -B = run daemon in the background
  -c = Configuration file
  -C = ctrl_interface parameter (only used if -c is not)
  -i = interface name
  -I = additional configuration file
  -d = increase debugging verbosity (-dd even more)
  -D = driver name (can be multiple drivers: nl80211,wext)
  -e = entropy file
  -g = global ctrl_interface
  -G = global ctrl_interface group
  -K = include keys (passwords, etc.) in debug output
  -t = include timestamp in debug messages
  -h = show this help text
  -L = show license (BSD)
  -o = override driver parameter for new interfaces
  -O = override ctrl_interface parameter for new interfaces
  -p = driver parameters
  -P = PID file
  -q = decrease debugging verbosity (-qq even less)
  -u = enable DBus control interface
  -v = show version
  -W = wait for a control interface monitor before starting
  -N = start describing new interface
example:
  wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Starting udhcpc client on: ...
udhcpc: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device
Connecting to WLAN-890929...
.....Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: (null)  error: No such file or directory
                                                                      [ Failed ]

First time I got wireless it was after I used a GUI app from menu->settings->forgot_the_name. It has a radio tower icon. There I could choose between several WLAN signals. And it worked with mine. Now I don't see any signals there.
I checked firmware, rt2860.bin is there. Do I need to modprobe rt2860.so or rt2800pci.ko?
Is it a good strategy to set network.conf to default and then follow a guide from handbook?
Fyi I installed slitaz-rolling.iso
I found this topic, does it still apply? http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/wifi-trouble-possibly-through-update#post-38690

Posted 9 years ago #

eugen-b

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I guess the WiFi trouble through update post still applies, because you reference it one day ago: http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/wireless-works-but-cant-connect-if-no-encryption
Bad timing to start using SliTaz now. ;) But I'm going to try to fix it following the direction in that post.

Posted 9 years ago #
eugen-b

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WiFi doesn't work. I downloaded the boot-script packages from that post,
http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/wifi-trouble-possibly-through-update#post-38690
copied them to /home/eugen, installed thrm deleting network.conf before (because it was not overwritten), configured network.conf as before and got the same boot result. While newer boot-scripts tried to connect, older ones didn't.

I also installed mesa, mesa-dri and linux-drm. Now the screen looks less fuzzy, quite sharp and clear, same as on Debian derivatives.

What is the best to do about wireless now??
Would it perhaps make more sense now to install a different release, not rolling?

Posted 9 years ago #
mojo

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Follow this driver troubleshooting procedure replacing rtl8192se with the correct driver name for your network adapter.

ls /sys/class/net should output the correct alias for the network adapter to add to INTERFACE="" variable in /etc/network.conf
If you need more help post the output of lspci -nn in addition to any errors from dmesg, /var/log/messages

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Well, I tried but encountered some unexpected things.
My wlan0 was renamed to dummy0. But with dummy0 I got the same boot log.
Here is my lspci -nn output:

eugen@slitaz:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800 Host Bridge [1106:0353] (rev 14)
00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 Error Reporting [1106:1353]
00:00.2 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 Host Bus Control [1106:2353]
00:00.3 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800 PCI to PCI Bridge [1106:3353]
00:00.4 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 Power Management Control [1106:4353]
00:00.5 PIC [0800]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 APIC and Central Traffic Control [1106:5353]
00:00.6 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 Scratch Registers [1106:6353]
00:00.7 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 North-South Module Interface Control [1106:7353]
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 Chrome 9 HC3 Integrated Graphics [1106:1122] (rev 11)
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 PCI Express Root Port [1106:c353]
00:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 PCI Express Root Port [1106:e353]
00:03.1 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 PCI Express Root Port [1106:f353]
00:0f.0 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800 Serial ATA and EIDE Controller [1106:5324]
00:10.0 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104] (rev 90)
00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820 Bus Control and Power Management [1106:8353]
00:11.7 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX8xx South-North Module Interface Control [1106:a353]
00:13.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VX855/VX875/VX900 PCI to PCI Bridge [1106:b353]
00:14.0 Audio device [0403]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A/VT8251 HDA Controller [1106:3288] (rev 20)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe [1814:0781]
04:06.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet [10ec:8167] (rev 10)

After stopping network.sh I did modprobe -r rtl8192se and got module not found, modprobe rtl8192se the same. I also looked at my running system on that machine what is the driver. It is rt2800pci with corresponding libraries. I tried modprobe -r rt2800pci and modprobe rt2800pci with the same result, module not found.
Should I try copying the rt2800* files from antiX/MEPIS MX-14 to SliTaz?
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tux@slitaz:~$ tazpkg search-pkgname rt2800pci.ko.xz

Search result for package "rt2800pci.ko.xz"
================================================================================
linux-wireless
linux64-wireless
================================================================================
2 packages

Re-install linux-wireless with this command if slitaz is connected to the internet:
tazpkg get-install linux-wireless --forced

Re-install firmware-rt2x00 with this command if slitaz is connected to the internet:
tazpkg get-install firmware-rt2x00 --forced

If you have no internet using another internet connected computer click the linux-wireless and firmware-rt2x00 links in the above commands to download the packages.
Transfer them to slitaz using flash drive and install.

tazpkg install linux-wireless-3.2.71.tazpkg --forced

tazpkg install firmware-rt2x00-20141201.tazpkg --forced

modprobe rt2800pci
ls /sys/class/net

Posted 9 years ago #
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I downloaded the two packages directly to my SliTaz /home/eugen folder. Then installed them with second variant. But stragely modprobe rt2800pci gave an error.
modprobe: FATAL: rt2800pci not found
This is really sad, but I hope to provide you with this feedback and so help you to improve your distro.
Thanks again for helping!

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