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This is frustrating. I've attempted to get 800x600 resolution by entering the above as a boot parameter in accordance with the help menu and nothing changes. I still get the higher resolution requiring the vision of a bird of prey in order to see. If the instructions are useless so is your CD. How do I get this thing to render in 800x600. Please, God!
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5.0-rc2 configuring screen resolution from boot menu is broken.
Adding Modes after generating 70-Screen.conf,fbdev video driver ignores the configuration.
The only solution is to get vesa to auto load instead of fbdev or force it with a manual configuration.
Vesa will auto load on my computer if I add nomodeset to boot options.
Applications/Preferences/Monitor settings
Screen is 1024x768 with option for 800x600
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I tested video=800x600M-32@60 some time ago, and it works. Don't know is it useable not on nvidia hardware.
Described at end of the following page
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting/
example looks like video=DVI-I-1:1024x768@85 video=TV-1:d
For me, it is not correctly without "M". And known nouveau bug is 8-bit default mode, so I just add -32
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Mojo,
How are you expressing the boot option, slitaz screen=nomodeset, slitaz vga=nomodeset, or some such. I've tried a number of combinations but none of them force an 800x600 in Preferences/Monitor Settings, just the usual 1280x1024 and Auto.
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@Captain CaCa,
Write only [c]nomodeset [/c] in the kernel line; ie:
[c]kernel (hd1,1)/frugal/4.0/bzImage rw root=/dev/null kmap=fr-latin1 nomodeset screen=text[/c]
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@Captain CaCa
Boot the live cd
Languages menu =>choose your language with up/dn arrow keys if desired
Hit Enter key
Don't type anything in the next screen.
Hit the Enter key or wait a few seconds...
When you get to the boot menu with the spider in the middle that says:
[c]SliTaz GNU/Linux - 5.0-RC2 20140519[/c] on top and [c]Press [Tab] to edit options[/c] below spider.
Use the down arrow on your keyboard to highlight [c]SliTaz core Live[/c]
Hit the tab key
The cursor will be after the last entry which is autologin
Make a space by hitting the space bar and type [c]nomodeset[/c]
Hit Enter to boot.
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Mojo,
Followed your instructions to the letter and they did as you indicated except for one thing: Once I'd reached Preferences/Monitor Settings, had seen the choices in Resolution, had selected 800X600, and hit Apply, what rendered was a black screen with diagonal white lines, gibberish basically, and the machine became unresponsive. I tried it with one resolution settling higher but got the same result. Its almost as though the operation was a success but the patient died. :-)
Thoughts?
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When you open Preferences/Monitor Settings, what is Resolution:
What is the native resolution of your monitor/screen ?
Open terminal while booted in.
[c]lspci -vvnn > lspci.txt[/c]
[c]cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log > xorg.txt[/c]
Attach lspci.txt and xorg.txt to your reply
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Mojo,
Resolution is 1280x1024.
Here's lspci.txt:
If first letter is rendered as the small letter "L" in Xterm - and there is a difference between a small "L" and a "1" in Xterm - I get a prompt. If the first letter is rendered as a "1" in XTerm, I get -sh: lspci: not found.
Here's cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log > xorg.txt:
I get a prompt, nothing else.
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try type at boot
[c]video=800x600M-16@60[/c]
instead of [c]nomodeset[/c]
lspci is LSPCI e.g.:
lspci | grep VGZ
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az-ua,
Looks like you've got the syntax, az_ua! Although I thought I'd try it first as video=800x600 without the M-16@60 and it worked! The line, video=800X600, was appended to the list of boot parameters, of course. Finally! Now I can see this thing from the vantage point of a human being and not a falcon or an osprey or something. At first blush with the 1280X1024 I thought I'd died and that God was punishing me for my sin. :-)
Now that I can see what I'm doing, maybe you guys can help me get this thing to load web pages. For the last several weeks, I've had trouble with so-called "light" distros or minimalist live CDs getting pages to load in their respective browsers even though I can ping my router and websites without insident. Eth0 is shown to be connected and I'm getting my address assigned by DHCP. In one distro, Puppy, I've even attempted to override the name server numbers with some that were suspected to be more friendly than those of my ISP but that proved folly. Occasionally the pages will load - maybe 5% of the time. Otherwise they struggle and eventually give up the ghost. My Windows setup has no such trouble. The browser doesn't seem to make a difference: I've tried SeaMonkey, Dillo, SurfNet, and the one here with Slitaz and the result is the same, painfully slow if any loading at all. So I have no internet access for all intents and purposes even though I'm shown to be perfectly well connected and accessed. I've spent hours on this problem mainly with Wary Puppy 5.3 and Vector Linux Light and have nothing to show for the effort. Thoughts?
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@Captain CaCa
I'm not sure if this will help you, but try this on a terminal: (first disconnect internet)
# ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2
Connect internet again and try surfing.
Have a nice day!
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Sidini,
What's the theory here, Sidini? And what do we mean by "first disconnect internet?" Disconnect physically, like disconnect network cable from router? Just trying to understand what you suspect might be the problem.
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Captain CaCa,
Sidini mean that first command disconnects you from internet.
So, became root: type su command and enter root password on prompt (password entering will be hidden, it's Ok).
Next, type Sidini's first command (please, don't type # at the beginning, this symbol only mean that you're in a super-user mode):
[c]ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0[/c]
Now you disconnected from internet. Type second command:
[c]ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2[/c]
Wait for command end and then exit from super-user mode by entering command exit or just pressing Ctrl+D. Close terminal or Ctrl+D again.
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Thanks Aleksej! That's exactly what I mean.
@Captain CaCa, this is a step-by-step to you:
1- open a terminal
2- type su and hit <Enter>
3- enter root password (usually it's "root") and hit <Enter>
4- type a command to disconnect your internet (leave the cables connected!). If you use ADSL connection (like me), it's "pppoe-stop " <Enter>
5- type "ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0" <Enter>
6- type "ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2" <Enter>
7- re-connect your internet using a command. For ADSL, it's "pppoe-start" <Enter>
8- type "exit" <Enter> to exit from "super-user mode"
9- try to surf on web; it should be working now.
If you are new to Linux or Slitaz, please make it clear to us, so we can help you appropriately, ok? 
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Sidini & Alexsej,
Interesting! I first gain root access in XTerm and enter pppoe-stop and get the following output: "No PPPoE connection appears to be running". This though I just this minute loaded a site on Firefox in my Windows box. I am perfectly able to ping my router from my Linux box also. Moving forward, I enter ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 and I get a prompt. Next, I type ifcong eth0 192.168.1.103 which is the IP address assigned to the Live CD by my router's DHCP and I also get a prompt. Finally, I bring up the Midori brower, type http://www.drudgereport.com in the address bar and get a cannot resolve hostname error back from the browser.
This result is just typical of what I've gotten with three or four different distros trying to serf with either installed or Live CD versions. I can't get on the internet about 98% of the time with Seamonkey, Dillo, Midori or anything else. I've tried tinkering with overriding the ISP's DNS numbers to no avail. I'm being told that I'm connected but the Linux box won't load web pages while the Windows box will. How to solve?
As to background: A+ certified back in the late 1990s, built all of my computers since with high quality stuff, all, that is, except the Linux box now in question which was my first computer, a NEC Direction 233 L, which I upgraded about 10 years ago with a PII 333 processor, 256 SDRAM, a 30GB hard drive and a 52X CD writer. This configuration maxed out the capabilities of the motherboard. As to Linux, I've played with various distros over the years, nothing lately till now, however. Have dated experience with Gentoo, Arch, Crux, mainly. Hope this helps.
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@Captain CaCa
If you got a "No PPPoE connection appears to be running" message, it seems that you are using a DCHP connection, which is different from mine (ADSL modem). Maybe it's a router configuration problem (configuration on Linux is different from Windows).
I don't have a DCHP router, only an ADSL modem, so I don't have too much knowledge about DHCP to help you. But we have a Wiki page with information about network configuration:
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:networkconf
Check it out in DHCP sections, maybe it would be helpful to you.
Also, search the forum for other messages about "DHCP problems", "no DHCP connection" or something like this. Maybe someone before had the same problem you are having.
Have a nice day!
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@Captain CaCa
when you boot the live CD, can you post the output of
dmesg | grep eth
ifconfig
then copy /etc/resolv.conf + /var/log/boot.log to your home folder and rename them to resolv.conf.txt and boot.log.txt and attach them
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