I just tried out SliTaz 5 RC2 and wanted to report some problems that might be corrected by the next version, and perhaps see whether there are some solutions for me to be used even in the current RC2 version. I'm using a liveusb, and made this by means of the tazusb gen-iso2usb command from within slitaz 4 (using sakura terminal). The filesystem I used on the usb stick is ext3.
First of all, tazbox keymap doesn't work. None of the keyboard setups seem to have any effect. I have an azerty keyboard, and it's currently using a qwerty setup, so it's annoying.
Next, I'm having difficulty with my graphics/screen. The screen is off-center (part of the desktop on the left side can't be seen on my monitor). My monitor has no adjustment buttons (SyncMaster SA10). The problem occured on slitaz 4 too, as well as pretty much any other linux distro (that worked with me). In slitaz 4 however, the LXRandR worked, and I could change the resolution (to 1024x768, and some other resolutions), after which the screen was re-centered and the problem disappeared. In slitaz 5, I can only keep it at 1 resolution. I should note that I also have a radeon card installed, but I set this off in the BIOS (still in machine though). As too is the case in other linux distro's, simply having this card in my machine causes some minor issues, such as the displaying of a white box in a section of the screen. This didn't occur however when I didn't have any graphics card in my machine at all. Switching on the card in the BIOS isn't an option neither since slitaz 5 doesn't work then anymore (with slitaz 4 it did work); since I'm still using other linux distro's too however that don't work with card neither (only with on-board graphics), I rather not use the card at all (and only use this card when booting windows).
I tried to resolve the issue by typing "xrandr -q" in the terminal, but that gave the error "failed to get size of gamma or output default". The command xrandr -s 1280x786 also didn't work. I saw there's an xorg driver for ATI radeons, which I haven't tried to use yet, but as said I rather not use the graphics card at all. Perhaps that using a different gui program might solve some things ? I'm thinking of ARandR or Zarfy; if that would work that would also extra improve slitaz a bit for me, since I rather delete all LXDE-derived programs from the system (and use openbox-optimized programs, or other very lightweight programs). Something tells me however that the problem might not lie in the gui-program, since even xrandr doesn't work (using the commands).
Another minor issue I find is that when using the slitaz panel with my liveusb slitaz 5 is that when I download firefox with it, it displays a sort of error box with "1" in it, and which you need to click on OK. That's not really a problem, but looks a bit weird.
Finally, a last issue I had with slitaz 5 (which didn't occur in slitaz 4) is the fact that when booting, it first displays first screen/text:
Append to kernel parameters
root:
Is it possible to remove this first screen (is this btw because of syslinux which first starts and itself starts extlinux ?) ?
Also, at the second sceen (the main splashscreen); there are the following boot options/labels:
slitaz live
slitaz core live
gtkonly only live
justx live
base live
Help and options
Languages
Check memory
Check media
Command line
Web boot
Reboot system
As you might have read at my other post (http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/making-user-and-root-account-at-splash-screen ), I'm looking to alter this to allow logging in as root or as user, either with or without persistence.
The labels should hence become:
* log in as root
* log in as root + persistence
* log in as user (tux)
* log in as user (tux) + persistence
* install SliTaz to HD
* help and options
* Command line
* PXE boot
I'm wondering whether I'll need to extlinux.conf or the syslinux.cfg file (I assume there will both be a syslinux and an extlinux folder at /home/boot/, since I read that syslinux itself boots extlinux).
