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Hi,
I use slitaz for a while now and Slitaz4 works like a charm on my mid-old desktop computer.
But now, i did buy a powerfull Dell latitude 3540 i5 Haswell Intel's HD Graphics 4400 GPU and an additionnal AMD's Radeon HD 8850M graphics chip.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Latitude-3540-Notebook.105885.0.html
I know this can be bought with ubuntu as well but I really want to reach the speed of light with Slitaz4 . But I have only the context openbox menu; no pcmanfm ; no lxpanel .. help ; its due to the radeon ?
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If you have X running,it's unlikely to be a problem with a graphics driver.
Do you have the bottom panel? If not, in a terminal or VT do, rm ~/.config/lxpanel/slitaz/panels/*
Then logout & back into X session, & the bottom panel will be restored, & hopefully your menu.
If not, you will have to check your menu file for inconsistencies, maybe you tried to add a new entry(?).
hi,
no bottom menu lxpanel and the openbox menu cannot launch anything. Ethernet connection dont work after boot .. anybody did a slitaz receipt for those who have an ati radeon ?
combinaison of the radeon with intel hd causes some troubles ?
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I think it is tied to the recent processor, rather than to the radeon (but might be wrong).
I have encountered a number of similar issues and it has been a very painful process to solve (and i do not remember the detailed process you will have to do some edit and test around).
That was with 4.0; you have not said if your problem is with 4.0 or cooking.
It took me a long time to solve all the issues. And quite frankly it has been such a pain that I went away from slitaz at that time, almost completely.
From what I remember right click in the background which bring up a menu and allows to start a terminal from openbox where you can start lxpanel, which gives the menu.
I think there is another command to run to start whatever allows to move the windows around (and i do not remember what i did to make it run, maybe run lxsession manually or something similar, I am really no expert on this)
Start there and see if it helps.
I have been reading a lot at that time on the Arch wiki and it helped me a lot, I found it to be very well documented; you may want to read the lxde page. The arch wiki provides very well documented step by step wikis.
Unless any of the very knowledgeable people of this forum has a better advice for you, of course.
I think I had to edit some X file to solve keyboard mapping issues but i am not sure.
Not clear you will need to do what is below (until the bottom of the post), I had to:
Also i had to modify the boot line to include something like this (this is from usb so not grub, adjust per your configuration if it helps)
append initrd=/boot/rootfs.gz rw root=/dev/null vga=normal nomodeset autologin home=ae10e45a-518b-404c-b533-636cd52e8f89 screen=text lang=fr_FR
this goes to a console where i have to login as root then run slim manually.
Hope this helps. I'll post again if I find what I did.
Apologies if what I posted here is trivial to you.
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Hi Christophe,
Was on slitaz 4 . I can introduce , root, root on slim but as i told , i cannot launch anything after despite i can openbox menu.
Do you know vgaswitcheroo ? How does it works ?
http://forum.slitaz.org/search.php?q=vgaswitcheroo
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hybrid_graphics
I prefer the simpliest solution for the moment : desactivate the radeon
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ok, I create a new flavor slitaz4 with xorg-video-ati with it's dependecies.
Now, I start to introduce language and keyboard. After that, black
screen , i introduce : root , root : Welcome to the open Source World
I can enter the command slim
slim : Another instance of the program is already running with PID 2213
root@slitaz:~#[Hardware Error]: Machine checks events logged
root@slitaz:~#startx
Fatal server error :
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again.
then i cannot introduce any command
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all right,
I use the latest rolling and I can access now to a graphic desktop with ethernet working ! Good job guys ! 
But 2 things :
- instead of having letters in gtk menus, i have little box (looks same than surfing on a chinese website)
- my screen resolution is stuck to the max resolution in lxrandr and my external monitor is not even visible (didn't have that with slitaz 4.0)
Can help me ? After that, I will try to get wireless
Thanks
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Fix the pango problem (little rectangles instead of fonts).
Root user in terminal:
[c]/usr/bin/pango-querymodules > /etc/pango/pango.modules[/c]
Logout/into xsession
Change resolution to 1024x768:
[c]xrandr -s 1024x768[/c]
In slitaz I use vesa driver at 1024x768x24 with single monitor on all my hardware.
For optimized video with 3D hardware acceleration I boot into either arch,debian,or ubuntu.
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ok, as suggested Mojo in another post (edit: ahaha he answered me before within a minute 
)
, just reinstall pango
# tazpkg -gi pango --forced
- one new thing with spaceFM // error message (but i prefer pcmanfm anyway 
)
SpaceFM requires genuine /bin/bash (v4+) to be installed. Other shells are NOT equivalent.
I just need to fix the external screen and be able to set another (a lower) screen resolution
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Same problem
http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/disk-not-visible-in-cooking
disk is not visible in pcmanfm
and xrandr
root@slitaz:~# xrandr -s 800x600
Size 800x600 not found in available modes
pretty sure it is !
here's my 70-screen.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Card1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen2"
Device "Card2"
Monitor "Monitor2"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen3"
Device "Card3"
Monitor "Monitor3"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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root@slitaz:~# xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1080, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1080
default connected 1920x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1920x1080 0.0*
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