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slimhunter

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@Trixar_za: I really, REALLY hope you're kidding or at least you'll be making a step back with your words.

You think that I'm implying that I'm doing a favour for trying Slitaz.
Well, you THINK that, but it's totally wrong: I didn't say that and I didn't mean what you're saying. I've already posted on this forum and these assumptions you're doing on me are quite offesive.

My only "favour" is giving my feedback about what I've found during my tests: I've installed tazndis and It didn't work. Period. Since I'm no programmer, I tried to be useful reporting what I thought could be a bug - from my humble and not acknowledged point of view, of course.
My last sentence that maybe made you think so bad had another simpler and not rude meaning: "I'm desiring to use slitaz because it suits my needs (whoah, else why i should waste time writing something here?), BUT...as i've found this "problem I can't use it. Why? Because my goddamn LAN port is broken. [p.s.: please be kind and help me if you can, i've used and distributed slitaz since v.2, i'd be pleased to keep on doing the same with v.5]".

For your information: I'm not lazy neither google challenged, in fact i've posted AFTER searching for similar cases, finding two forum posts with guides that I've followed but DIDN'T do the trick.
For sure I'm inexperienced...well, that's why someone made this goddamn forum.
Stop "assuming" things and posting such rude words.

Posted 10 years ago #
Darjeeling

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Trixar was careful not to address anybody personally. So, I don't take it personally and neither should anybody else. Right or wrong, people sometimes feel they have to let off steam. And why not? I couldn't care less as long as nobody is individually attacked. Christophe has invited everybody to report issues with RC-2 in this thread, and that's all that matters.

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slimhunter

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Well, he reported part of my words, hence it was direct to me. He was not careful, he kept a generic but well addressed (and senseless) criticism.
Anyway, I'm not interested in arguing further on this. All I'd like to do is to keep offering the results of my tests, get and give help whenever possible.

Sorry for these last posts, I hope there won't be anything else but useful stuff from now on.

Posted 10 years ago #
Trixar_za

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Yes, your post brought it up, but you're not the first nor will you be the last to make those kind of statements.

I'll be frank and say it really urks me when people use the words 'useless' and 'unusable' with regards to a distro because they went out of their way to find a feature or two that wasn't working for then like they wanted and concluded everything about the distro must be bad by association. They then go out of their way to express this, normally in a unreasonably critic tone without giving any real bug reports or viable fixes. To me that's not being helpful, but unreasonable instead.

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@ necrophcodr
Apology accepted. I was just trying to point out that there are the 'testing' branches, & there are the 'stable' (& relatively stable) branches.

If the stable version is not up to date enough for you, I suggest you try using 'cooking' which is a semi stable version of 'rolling'. Being as it is not the stable version, before upgrading, run it live or on an unimportant installation to check all is well before installing onto an important machine.

To me your posting sounded like a critisism, a more useful way of saying it would perhaps have been
"I have been using rolling for a little while now, but when I tried to upgrade it, I got this/these errors......"

That will make it easier (for the non English speaking developers) to try & help you. I only help out on the forum as much as I can, in appreciation of the work the developers put into making this distro.

All the best.

Posted 10 years ago #
necrophcodr

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I would also like to report that Awesome is now working perfectly well, tested it in rolling and the result is the following:

Beautiful.

Posted 10 years ago #
mojo

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SliTaz-5.0-rc2
Samba mounting works after installing cifs-utils
NFS mounts requires running portmap and using busybox mount
I setup an alias for busybox mount and busybox umount

Solved with help from llev
tazpkg can't install coreutils-directory or coreutils-file-output-full
Reverting this commit will fix the package install problem.
http://hg.slitaz.org/tazpkg/rev/34d80c8f0619

tazpkg 5.3:
tazpkg install-list doesn't work

Posted 10 years ago #
slimhunter

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If I say that a pair of glasses are unusable for me because the lenses are wrong for my eye problems, i'm not saying that all the glasses are unuseful\unusable. i'm telling what's wrong for trying to give feedback so thhat you can investigate, which should be an appreciated attempt to give something to the slitaz cause.
If i'm here talking, you should understand that it's because i'm a slitaz enthusiast.

So going back to the problem i've encountered: is it a bug? Would you be interested in investigating? Do you need any kind of further report. Would you (all of you developers) please accept my suggestion about including ndiswrapper in core slitaz since it is perfect for machines with no lan onboard?

thanks in advance, i hope this will be solved in the end.

Posted 10 years ago #
rggarcia

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Running it under vmware only login console is available. For anyone who wants to start GUI (maybe this can be useful for geev03), as far as I have probed login as tux must be done and the following commands must be executed:

su - (to become root)
tazx (select Install or reconfigure Xorg -> vmware driver)
/etc/init.d/slim start

Then normal installation trought Slitaz Panel can be done. The first time the system is started from hard drive only login console is available again, so the same commands must be executed. Next time the GUI will start without any problem.

Posted 10 years ago #
geev03

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Thanks a lot,rggarcia . Everything went on smoothly as per your clear suggestions/instructions :)
- These are the default installed packages >> http://paste.slitaz.org/?f17d64283c4f43fd#zloTcx6BZJgG/qAWp65thzwXXvAhfuM1TpKLg/O5ejc=
- The Xorg.0.log file is here >> http://paste.slitaz.org/?951dce62795a5d29#ZRx5yJQaz7lLOdd4p9muZTTKsEkUJFEkBZyDrGJqlMs=
-- Looking forward to SliTaz 5.0

Posted 10 years ago #
holkfoor

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The SliTaz RC2 system is consuming 100% CPU. LiveCD and HD.
After 10 minutes everything is normal.

Has anyone noticed this?

Posted 10 years ago #
geev03

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That was not seen in SliTaz 5RC2 Virtual Machines . Please see the attached picture (Boot up was at 14:11 )
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Posted 10 years ago #
Sidini

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I've been using Slitaz 5.0 RC2 LiveCD in a real machine and it doesn't happen here. CPU usage only increases when I move the mouse or open an application.

My PC: CPU Intel Celeron 2.2GHz; 512MB RAM.

Posted 10 years ago #
mojo

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@slimhunter
Thanks for the report
I installed tazndis,Applications/System Tools/Manage Windows drivers wouldn't launch tazndisbox.
I ran tazndis from terminal to install my ACX111 tnet1130 Zyxel pci wireless adapter winxp driver
modprobe ndiswrapper, while running another terminal to monitor /var/log/messages.
```
ndiswrapper version 1.59 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
ndiswrapper: driver tnet1130 (ZyXEL,12/01/2004,7.0.1.33) loaded
ndiswrapper 0000:03:06.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 21
wlan1: ethernet device 00:13:49:54:2a:b5 using NDIS driver: tnet1130, version: 0x7, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'TNET1130', 104C:9066.5.conf
wlan1: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2-PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2-PSK
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
```
Verify device registered ls /sys/class/net
Connected with Applications/Preferences/Wi-Fi configuration to WPA2 wifi router
The wifi adapter is running at it's max Bit Rate 56 Mb/s, Link Quality 51/100 with a stable connection.
I rebooted slitaz-5.0-rc2 live cd , installed ndiswrapper and tested with same success.

This same adapter and driver fails to work with tazndis/ndiswrapper on Slitaz-3.0 but works on 2.0 and 4.0
My post about problem with cooking pre-release 3.0 :
http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/3314#Comment_3314
A similar experience using ndiswrapper on lubuntu, it works on 10.04 but fails on 11.10
I ended up buying a $10.00 tenda USB wifi adapter for 3.0 and had to compile the driver before it would work.

I added gtkdialog to depends of tazndis so tazndisbox will start.
The fixed tazpkg is on the mirror.

@holkfor
Run top look at %CPU to target process.
The only problem I've had with high cpu usage is mail.yahoo.com advanced interface while clicking inbox link which locked up midori.
Changing mail.yahoo.com to basic interface solves problem.
Running live cd with 2 gigs of ram AMD X2 255 3.1 GHz dual-core 2MB total cache CPU
Posted 10 years ago #
christophe

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My 2 cents on RC2

1- no (terminal) icon for Sakura windows in the taskbar. I was under the impression that this bug had beend fixed in earlier releases ??

2- chrome does not install from get-google-chrome -- complains that
sdg-icon-resource: size argument must be numeric
Try sdg-ion-resource --help for more information
xdg-desktop-menu: file /opt/google/chorm/google-chorme.desktop does not exist

It then says it is installed but it is not

3- the screen brightness special key now works, which i find really great; would love to see the volume keys work also, if that is at all possible
The battery left indication from lxde panel also now shows some data ! great too.

4- the cursor still disappears in several occasions. The most obvious one is if I position it on the x point to close a firefox tab (no need to depress it): the cursor is gone

5- no sound at first until i pop up alsamixer. Maybe a better (non zero) default could be implemented

6- PCMANFM shows no trashcan (the option is checked in the preference menu); it does not show my usb flashdrive I booted from (I am pretty sure i have a blockid instruction to mount it as the home directory though) neither the internal disk either

that's all for today

Congratulations; I can see the improvement over 4.0 . Still soooo impressed about the tiny size. I will probably switch back to slitaz if it sticks to the RC promises I can see.....

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