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Hi all,
So here is SliTaz GNU/Linux 4.0-RC2 which is our second release candidate for the upcoming SliTaz 4.0 stable release. Xorg issue should be fixed for most user, TazPanel access is now working after an HD install, LiveUSB creation work like a charm and a bunch of new stuff have been added.
Release announcement in en, id, pt: http://www.slitaz.org/
Direct download: http://is.gd/Taz40RC2
I would like to give a big hug to everyone who tested and made feedback about RC1, your feedbacks and time is really appreciated.
Best regards,
- Christophe
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Ah, awesome. Xorg broke spectacularly while I was trying to set up touchpad synaptics... I made a mistake when editing the config, and suddenly GRUB stopped working completely (?!), hope that whatever caused it is fixed now. Could just be that GRUB is really good at not working right.
Thanks^^
Hi, nv driver not working out of the box, I've got a Quadro NVS 140M
and the nouveau driver is automatically loaded which results in a
blank screen. Is it possible to block this on a LiveCD? Thanks.
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I tried to upgrade from RC1 to RC2 and got internal error 8.
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@Paul
This works for nvidia 8400gs.
Hit tab after you select the version (core,gtkonly) from the boot menu.
Add nomodeset to the end of the kernel line.
Hit enter to boot.
This disable's the nouveau frame buffer's acceleration when it is modprobed by tazx/tazhw detect-pci
which prevents the blank screen issue.
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I did a clean install of RC2 and it seemed to be working ok for a bit.
The Network Manager indicator in the upper right corner was defaulting to wlan and I
wanted it to display etho, so I found a place to change the setting.
I also attempted to install get-google-chrome, but I couldn't tell if it completed properly. If I try to click on All in the TazPanel - Packages, it closes down.
Now the application menu in the lower left corner is missing. A restart did not make it reappear.
My install is running in VirtualBox 4.1.18 if that matters.
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I reinstalled to try and determine what was causing the problem. Everything looked ok until I ran a Logout - Close X Session: exit. The bottom panel with the application menu on the left side is now missing.
The problem appears when I logon and exit with the user tux. If I do the same sequence as the root user, the application menu still shows. Hopefully this will help isolate the problem.
I am new to SliTaz and it looks great.
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@GoodGuy98
Sounds like this bug: http://bugs.slitaz.org/issue63
The workaround I use is to modify both top and bottom panel. A small change to the other panel like adding an invisible separator is all that's required.
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Hi,
Here is 2 alternaltive icons for Firefox and Pcmanfm
[attachment=7122,353] [attachment=7122,354]
the locales
de_DE
de_CH-latin1
sg-latin1
do not work; I can't type anything in the terminal
using language fr_Fr and fr_CH-latin1 it's ok
En Francais:
je ne peux pas taper aucun lettre dans terminal avec de_DE et sg-latin1 ou de_CH-latin1
edit
wlan0 is not recognized (works fine with tiny core)
Hi , when i try to run it on Virtualbox, i get this
http://i44.tinypic.com/mjr3bp.png
0,5 mb useless
/usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg
it should be good to track and delete all these icons and themes which are not used
@moulefrite: are you sure to run an RC2 ?
# find /usr/share | grep default.jpg
#
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maybe comes from an installed package.. i don't know which one
(firefox,xine,mlayer,gnome-mplayer,parole,xfmedia..)
by the way, tazwok is operational ? Because it's easy ?
tazwok is still fully operational and I use it to compile SliTaz Libre variant. More about it may comes later. Anyway, about tazwok, I enhanced it a lot the last year. It has been decided by the team that it was somewhat bloated and too complex; then pankso wrote cookutils as a replacement. cookutils is now shipped as default cook tool for SliTaz, and is the tool that compile the whole distro. Still, I fixed few bugs and maintained tazwok able to compile a complete SliTaz. There are enough difference between cookutils & tazwok so that both may seems appeling; depending on what you want to do. I claim that tazwok can rebuild a full SliTaz in few commands, but it might not always be so simple 
. Anyway, if one's need some support with it, (s)he can catch me on irc, mail or mailing list. I even might hack something up if needed.
@mojo Thanks, I managed to get something going with the gtkonly option.
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Firefox doesn't seem very stable..
What can we do if it freeze the whole system ?
Hi
I'm new to Slitaz, I have used Ubuntu quite a lot
I am not able to see the Chrome browser or Libreoffice
both appear to have installed correctly but there are no signs of any icons
if I use the run command eg "get-Libreoffice" nothing happens
Am I being thick or is this something that needs working on
Dave
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@Essex Lad
Some software on slitaz is downloaded/packaged/installed with a get-*.tazpkg script.
Google chrome only runs on cooking.
Google Chrome:
Install the get script:
#tazpkg -gi get-google-chrome
Enter
Execute the get script:
#get-google-chrome
Enter
Start google-chrome from menu:
Applications/Internet/Google Chrome
Start google-chrome from xterm as regular user:
tux@slitaz:~$ cd /opt/google/chrome/
tux@slitaz:/opt/google/chrome$ google-chrome
Libreoffice:
Install the get script:
#tazpkg -gi get-LibreOffice
Enter
Execute the get script:
#get-LibreOffice
Enter
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Thanks Mojo
I was being thick!
I have got Dropbox, Libreoffice & Chrome all installed and working
I must say I like Slitaz even though it's another learning curve
Will Chrome be installed in the final version of Slitaz4?
Thanks again
Dave
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Probably not Essex Lad - we need to keep the size of the iso down and including Chrome will add like 14MB to the ISO size 
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googel chrome should be banned for ever from slitaz packages .. it has nothing to do with the
values of linux
There is iron-linux which seems a good alternaltive.
I wait for Ice-cat, the alternaltive of Firefox
Have tried RC2, I can make liveUSB & liveCD but it fails when I try to recreate an ISO on a CD...somehow I have lost my wireless which worked on RC1
The ISO downloaded from Slitaz burnt efficiently to a CD which worked on 3 different PCs
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@mojo
Thank you for your reply. I took a look at the bug: http://bugs.slitaz.org/issue63
as you suggested. My Linux skills aren't very good as this point in time, so it took a little reading for me to understand how to use the info in msg206. I used the following command to copy the default LXDE config file to my user version.
cp -i -v /etc/lxpanel/slitaz/panels/bottom /home/$USER/.config/lxpanel/slitaz/panels
Once that ran, I performed a SliTaz Logout - Close X session : exit
It came up with the bottom panel showing again.
If the top panel is missing the command changes to:
cp -i -v /etc/lxpanel/slitaz/panels/panel /home/$USER/.config/lxpanel/slitaz/panels
The commands were executed while logged in as my normal user, not root.
Thank you for your help.
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Booting v4rc2 my screen blanks just as I expect a desktop; v3 & v4rc1 displayed ok, v3-vesa looks okay too. Same thing happens with several distros using new kernels; maybe it's a newer-kernel open-source-driver cheatcode boot-parameter thing. But not just nomodeset.
My pc has an old ATI on-board Radeon Xpress 200 gpu driving a 17" 4x3 LCD vga monitor.
(I'm new to Linux and Slitaz, testing with YUMI & MultiBootISO USB flash pendrive.)
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