not a support question
Gary
offlineMember
OK - try this:
Thanks for the tip: I uploaded a screenshot of the horizontal axis squashing I am seeing and it can be seen here: http://paste.slitaz.org/6v
It doesn't look too bad on the screenshot but to describe it better it is as if the width has been condensed into the physical dimensions of the screen causing the contents to get squashed/bunched up slightly.
mojo
offlineKey Master
Xorg is using the vesa driver at (--) VESA(0): Virtual size is 1280x768 (pitch 1280)
This explains why images look out of proportion because the aspect ratio is wrong.
You can try using lxrandr to set the resolution to 1024x768 which should correct the aspect ratio.
1280x800 is WXGA which is the next higher resolution.
Try editing your screen section Modes
Change "1280x768" to "1280x800"
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection1280x768
to add to modes
Gary
offlineMember
Thanks for this mojo. I'm confused as to why it is using vesa when I did all the steps posted previously i.e. selecting the sis driver after following Trixar_za's 8 steps in his first post on this topic. The following is a little curious:
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4.) Select the Install or Configure Xorg in the box that pops and click OK
5.) Allow it to finish downloading everything and pop up the options. Select sis and click OK...
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In step 5 it did not try and download anything...it just showed me the screen where I could select the driver - in my case the sis driver. It's a bit puzzling.
I really want to use the sis driver so if you can perhaps see where I have gone wrong and correct me I'd be really happy. I will try the change you suggested in the interim and report back later tonight (I'm at work currently and don't have my laptop with me).
Thank you.
Gary
offlineMember
@mojo - it might be a stupid question but how do I boot into the console? The only way I could achieve what you were asking yesterday was to kill X's process when in the console. I don't know how to boot into the console from scratch. I tried yesterday but ended at prompt like this:
grub>
I didn't know what to do at this point.
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master
Well, in SliTaz 3 tazx was a little download crazy. It first backed up your packages list, then recharged it. I'm not sure if SliTaz 4 RCs does this too. You may have to run tazpkg recharge before running tazx - in either cases you need to be online.
mojo
offlineKey Master
@Gary
how do I boot into the console?
tab the start menu on the livecd/or add to kernel line of bootloader add screen=text
You have to add slim back to /etc/rcS.conf RUN_DAEMONS= after hald to auto start login manager again on a slitaz install.
Either the sis driver is not installed
root@slitaz:/home/tux# tazpkg search sis
If you force a driver that is not correct for the graphics chip Xorg will not start.
Then remove sis to go back to vesa driver.
Search result for: sis
Installed packages
================================================================================
0 installed packages found for : sis
Available packages name-version
================================================================================
mesa-dri-sis-7.10.2
xorg-xf86-video-sis-0.10.3
================================================================================
2 available package(s) found for : sis
[2]Try the sis driver:
Boot to console,logon as root,password root while connected to internet.
#tazx
Choose: sis
After tazx downloads/installs/configures sis
Try to start X with slim login manager:
#slim
or when tazx runs X -configure it doesn't recognize your graphics chipset as being correct for the sis driver.
You will have to replace vesa with sis in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf
Gary
offlineMember
Thanks mojo. As usual I have more questions, I hope you don't mind?
[1] Where do I find the bootloader file so that I can add 'screen=text'?
[2] The first method you suggest for booting into the console: are you saying I need to press [TAB] when the grub menu appears or did I misunderstand?
[3] Do I need to install either mesa-dri-sis-7.10.2 or xorg-xf86-video-sis-0.10.3?
[4] When I tried the #tazx method the other night, selecting sis did nothing and I was connected to the internet.
[5] What *exactly* is the line I should be adding to the 60-Device.conf file do you know?
Thanks you.
Gary
offlineMember
@mojo and @Trixar_za: I've now got this working. I went back to basics and followed the instructions you both provided from scratch - I was clearly not being very attentive last time! I now have perfect aspect ratio at 1024*768. Thank you both so much for helping me to sort this out. I'm now very happy! I love SLiTaz!
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