@plumtreed Working on it. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/3G_and_GPRS_modems_with_pppd looks like a promising guide so far...
Rolling 20120324 - Xorg fix (Unofficial RC4 :-)
(42 posts) (18 voices)- Started 13 years ago by pankso
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Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterPosted 13 years ago # -
Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredRunning LiveCD of Rolling from 29Mar on an HPVectra (P4 1.6GHz) w/ 512MB RAM, NVidia GeForce FX5200 and Acer AL1917W widescreen monitor (1440x900). Running very well. According to 60-Device.conf, using "nv" driver. A few notes. Persistence of settings is a bit of a problem between TUX and ROOT. Setting screen resolution and refresh rate does not persist between logins, using only those settings recognized by XRandR and known to be good for my card/monitor combination. Default wallpaper (1600x1200) scales perfectly at some resolutions such as monitor default 1440x900 but not at other resolutions. Known good modelines etc. brought over from Puppy Linux don't seem to help. In this rolling release noticed that the bottom panel again tends to disappear completely from the screen (and from the directory) for both ROOT and TUX after I make changes to the displayed time format in the top panel. For now I make my changes and then immediately take away all permissions for both the 'panel' and 'bottom' files for both ROOT and TUX. Despite the few glitches, the progress with these rolling releases is just amazing! Very small, tight, and stable core to build on - your work is appreciated.
Posted 13 years ago # -
dunand
offlineMember[I respond to myself] How can I install on hd?
I followed http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:installation to install slitaz to hd. WOW I love it.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master@plumtreed Can you test something for me?
Open a terminal program (xterm or sakura):
1. su to root
2. addgroup tux dialout (replace tux with your username if your not using tux as your user)
3. addgroup tux lp
4. chown root:root /usr/sbin/pppd
5. chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
6. chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/pppd
7. Start your favorite dialer program or sakis3gTell me if it works, because I'm currently posting from the latest rolling iso using Midori as a normal user. One of those may have fixed our bug ;)
Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterProbably something in sakis3g then
Posted 13 years ago # -
rjarrrpcgp
offlineMemberI never had a problem with the display turning off or staying blank when booting with earlier hardware.
That usually occurs because of vice-versa. (When hardware came out after the distro version)
But with AntiX, the kernel keeps giving me a kernel panic about being unable to mount rootfs, even when I can't see anything wrong.
(On a 2003 Dell Dimension 2350)With the exception of AntiX, the only IDE controller issues I had was on my Asus P5QL Pro board.
I think it's because most distros don't like the Marvell PATA controller.SliTaz 3 was fine when I booted off a USB drive and made sure that it was mounted before running the installer to install to the HDD.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master@plumtreed packages: linux-dialup, xlc, wvstreams, wvdial, usb-modeswitch, usb-modeswitch-data and gnome-ppp - After doing the above steps (which sets pppd and user to the normally required permissions), I had to manually switch the modem using usb-modeswitch and set gnome-ppp to use /dev/ttyUSB3 (which is my default port) to make it work. Some users have reported that wvdial always worked, so it leaves the only problem remaining to be sakis3g. It's weird because sakis3g uses wvdial if it detects it.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterThen it's probably my mistake - Only thing I can think of is that I link /usr/sbin/chat to /bin/chat - generally that means the one will override the priority of the other. Maybe that's the problem - the permissions of /bin/chat is messed up. That's the only thing I can think of that would effect both wireless and dialup like this.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterOk, It's confirmed. Something about the sakis3g package breaks ppp dialing in SliTaz 4 - Even IF you don't change anything except uploading real commands instead of using the busybox ones. One of them is messing all this up... I may have to start from scratch with sakis3g to track down the culprit :/
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