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SliTaz Stable 3 wont boot X on Samsung N220

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• Started 12 years ago by Anonymous
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   As title says can't boot into xorg at all just get text prompt, which does nothing except give me the option to quit because it wont boot x.

   Cheers.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Just tried cooking boots into fuzz, if you press enter a couple of times I get a browny-pink back ground colour and thats it. Will try xvesa version tomorrow.

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   OK xvesa actually boots to the desktop but has the wrong resolution and no screen brightness. Xorg doesn't see a monitor and the cooking version almost does. My solution for my netbook in the end was rather simple though, all your help has been great, much appreciated.

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   OK so I gave up on SliTaz, my only conclusion is that its actually unusable. My solution was to reinstall Win Starter on my N220, which actually works. I thought I'd set an easier test for slitaz by trying it with an Advent 4211. It seems booting into a desktop is only 0.01% of the problems because if you actually get there its just as non-functional.

   1. No Wireless
   2. Can't mount hard drives
   3. No web cam
   4. No bluetooth

   etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.

   I do thank you for reminding me about how bad linux was in the late 90s early 00s though, a good trip down memory lane. I thought that a functional 30MB distro was a fantasy and I was right, keep up the work maybe one day it'll do what you claim, until then Puppy wins.

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   Atleast you can change the wallpaper unlike with Win7 starter...

   Really what did you expect with a 30MB limit? That everything will magically work like it does on Windo... oh wait, many stuff on Windows doesn't work out of the box either, does it? Webcam, bluetooth, most wireless, video cards, sound cards, network cards - most still need DRIVERS and SOFTWARE to be installed to make them work. To play most video and music formats you need to install codec packs and to play most games you need 3D Graphic drivers and probably DirectX.

   Same with most Linux distros - some assembly may be required. Sometimes to get something to work you need to put in some effort, especially with slimmed down and small distros like SliTaz or TinyCore. These type of Linuxes is not for beginners and it's definitely not for you if you want to put in no effort what so ever to learn it.

   If you want something that works out of the box and does everything for you auto-magically, then try something like PCLinuxOS or Linux Mint. I would call either the cream of the Linux crop. They're easy to use, come with all the eye candy you can wish for and flash, music and videos work out of the box. Not even to mention how powerful they are. Another good thing? They never get slower. They stay as fast as the first install and you get EVERYTHING you'll need with the first install.

   But if you want flexibility, speed and power over eye candy and painless easy of use. Then REALLY give SliTaz a chance.

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   Much as I love looking at fuzz and a command prompt, I've not the time to compile my own linux distro. If I had the time I wouldn't be using SliTaz I'd just build my own.

   I don't know what to learn from a distro that tells me it can't find the monitor its using to tell me it can't find a monitor, and when it does (xvesa version) it can't find anything else on my N220. Not necessarily SliTaz's fault as I haven't found a distro that will run on that machine without a problem.

   The Advent OTOH is old and theres no excuses there, the hardware ain't exactly cutting edge and everything I've tried on it works. SliTaz can't find the hard disc or the wireless, you may say I didn't try enough but seriously when you provide a program to mount hard drives and find the wireless adapter surely they should work.

   I want a small distro that boots quick is fast to use and actually works, I continue to look.

   Posted 12 years ago #

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