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Update on the Upgrade- This morining an upgrade of 19 packages on the full install HD led eventually to KERNEL PANIC. That included the previous version. The boot message shows inability to find init. Init is there I assure. BTW nice touch to the boot menu with the logo
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After upgrading from 3.0 to 4.0-RC2 on my lifebook, the battery icon shows still the same like on 3.0. and it always shows 100% charged. how can i replace this icon to the common 4.0-RC2 icon like to see on the /usr/share/icons/SliTaz/status/32 and does it shows the right state of charge after replace?
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hi all, sorry if I'm wrong place ...
after trying several times (kernel panic, error, etc) I also finally managed to install slitaz 4.0 RC2. wow, amazing! ... it looks very pretty and I think faster than version 3.0 ... but why when i play vlc damaged and green image? all kinds of video files (avi, flv, 3gp, wmv) ... please help ... thank you :: sorry about my english, I use google translate ::
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@rd.nmc
vlc is broken on slitaz-4.0 : xcb_xv generic error: no available XVideo adaptor
When it displays video its b/w when it should be color and the aspect ratio is wrong.
I suggest mplayer for now, it does a good job.
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1° Slitaz 4 needs urgently a perfect media player in GTK , with no bugs and no huge dependencies
Parole : not able to read any medias
Gxine : still have ugly icons, long to boot (due to backscreen auto-load) and seems unstable
Xfmedia : rat icon, missing icons and crash if max screen
Gnome-mplayer : doesn't start and need libgpod (and then python)
Xine : ok , but ugly command bar
mplayer : ok, but ugly command bar (and video window disappear in ex-last rolling, still ?)
vlc : warning, warning need to install to much dependencies.
sm-mplayer : we don't want to install another graphical library
2° Browsers
Ice-cat could be a good alternaltive of Firefox. Midori is too much unstable to release it in Slitaz 4 without taking the risk to present Slitaz as unstable regarding the judgment of newcomers
@ mojo: thank you, for now I use smplayer ...
@ moulefrite: I agree with you, Slitaz 4.0 needs urgently a perfect media player, maybe more simple but with gui, lightweight, but no bugs and does no huge dependencies too ...
slitaz 4.0 RC2:
- Midori: the windows are shut itself, as well as TazWeb Browser ...
- every time you make an internet connection with sakis3g + wvdial, ever-changing resolv.conf file permissions to -rw------- so only root access to internet connection. I finally did order # chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf to lock the resolv.conf file.
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Here's a proposal for a small improvement that might benefit many ...
Slitaz is among the few GNU/Linux distributions that runs entirely in RAM, not only because it is small but because it is designed that way. The advantages of this are obvious: Run from a Live CD, Slitaz is very fast and practically incorruptible, as a simple re-boot will sort out even the biggest mess (ideal for wild experiments one wouldn't dare otherwise). I guess, most of those who do not install Slitaz but run it from a customized Live CD, do so for these reasons.
The downside to all of this is of course a lack in flexibility. One has to make a new CD whenever there's an update for an important application (browser, flash player etc.). But this doesn't happen too often and a script that adds/removes packages, copies/deletes stuff, runs Tazlito and re-boots, usually doesn't take longer than 15-20 minutes including burning.
But there's still something missing in this setup: persistence! It is possible to mount a drive and restore stuff during boot-up in /etc/init.d/local.sh. But for a backup function there seems to be nothing like this. I'm using two hooks in the re-boot and the shut-down sections of /urs/bin/desktopbox (thanks, kultex) to run a backup script. But I think this is rather inelegant. It also has the disadvantage to run in the user space. A mount/unmount command in the backup script will prompt for a password, and who wants to type a password when shutting down the computer?
So, here's my proposal: why not have something like "local_up.sh" and "local_dn.sh", sitting peacefully next to each other in /etc/init.d, doing exactly what their names suggest? ("local_dn" should obviously be executed very late so there's no prompt for a password).
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"direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer"
This is a known issue with Nvidia driver from Taz. It's broken. Trying to correct it causes X to crash.
And dunno about ATI/AMD. Looks like the same type of problem and thus must get the driver from the GPU maker's web site and recompile the kernel!
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The newest rolling-iso is called RC3. Wouldn't it be better to give feedback to the most recent RC3 release now instead of RC2?
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yeah, another release candidate.
let's test if this now works more stable on my lifebook?
I'm really amused about this great os.
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but on slitaz 4.0-RC3, wich i directly downloaded to test, still having problems to get shown the correct battery state. it only appears the yellow eg. grey bar and notes "battery 100% charged". how can i resolve this and how can i change the icon to the gnome one like the others (speaker, net status ...)?
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Where did you get this RC3 from? And what is the difference to RC2?
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from http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/cooking/slitaz-4.0-RC3.iso .
but couldn't figure out what's the difference ecept the new integrated packages. too less time to hava a intensive look inside. and therefor i'm too newbie for this. i just like this nice os and try out, which is the stablest version for my fujitsu-siemens lifebook p7010.
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Launching the rolling SliTaz4.0-RC3 LiveCD on an HP Vectra VL420 DT with a Pentium 4 CPU (1.6 GHz), 512MB of PC100 RAM, and an NVidia GeForce FX 5200 128MB video card. I was taken directly to the desktop on this version and everything so far works and does so very very fast! I have found no flaws yet. I'm making this post from the live system and I'll report back after more experimentation. Excellent work! This is one of the few LiveCD systems that recognizes my setup on boot.
@aniguenni
Thanks a lot for the hint to RC3, which was under my radar. This is the first RC that came up to a working Xscreen on my main machine. And it looks indeed very good.
So, @developers, what exactly did you change with this release?
root@slitaz:~# tazpkg list | grep xorg
[...]
xorg-server 1.9.5 x-window
xorg-setxkbmap 1.2.0 x-window
xorg-xauth 1.0.5 x-window
xorg-xcompmgr 1.1.4 x-window
xorg-xf86-input-evdev 2.6.0 x-window
xorg-xf86-input-synapti 1.3.0 x-window
xorg-xf86-video-intel 2.15.0 x-window
xorg-xf86-video-nv 2.1.18 x-window
xorg-xf86-video-vesa 2.3.0 x-window
[...]
root@slitaz:~# tazpkg list | grep drm
libdrm 2.4.25 x-window
libdrm-intel 2.4.25 x-window
linux-drm 2.6.37 base-system
I am glad, but I cannot see the reason.
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As JTCullen64n I've launched the RC3 LiveCD on my MSNet (Pentium IV 1.5GHz 512 M RAM / nVidia GeForce2 MX200 32 Mo), it's a real pleasure !
Unfortunately, I won't have time this week to play with it and test it.
Congratulations again to the developers. No doubt the 4.0 stable will be a great version.
Ceel.
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@michaelbischof
nouveau drm was removed.
http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/1490ced67f58
http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/ebfa87b63143
I only speak english :-)
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For those who have problems using unetbootin:
With my netbook I also cannot boot RC2 if the LiveUSB stick has been created by unetbootin, the error message being
VFS: Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
When I created the LiveStick with Lili (http://www.linuxliveusb.com), however, everything worked out nicely. At least on this machine (Samsung N145+).
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@mojo
Excellent. This then is the point, apparently. I tested it in the meantime on different machines, worked flawlessly. My impression is that nvidia cards had the trouble with this drm then, other cards (I tested today one in an old HP machine) not.
Thanks to all of you for a great contribution!
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Using the same system I mentioned in a previous post, I wandered through Slitaz4.0-RC3 to see how the day to day things work for the average users, like my wife and kids. Changed screen resolution using the widget in the Preferences menu and with XRandr in XTerm. Changed my wallpaper with the widget in the Preferences menu. Installed Adobe Flash from XTerm and watched a couple YouTube videos and saw pretty smooth playback. Scrolled through Facebook which was very smooth - wife and kids will love that. Midori does tend to become unstable with heavy use of Flash. Installed Abiword with TazPkg and wrote a document. Listened to an MP3 with AlsaPlayer and tweaked the volume just a touch with AlsaMixer. Using PCMan FM copied files to and from a slave drive and from a USB thumb drive. Played with several of the widgets and other apps. Attempted to create a LiveCD with the wizard and, stumbling since this was my first try with Slitaz, didn't quite make it to the burning to CD. I found the md5 but no ISO was in sight. Probably my mistake there. System is very stable, looks nice, and for as far as I've fiddled, everything works very quickly and smoothly. Whatever bugs are left are hidden a little deeper than my first look at RC3. Nice job overall - astounding performance for a 40MB download!
I have problems creating a live-USB using dd. It seems to be the same issue as with RC1. There was no partition table in the iso file (so it's not a hybrid-iso file). Can it be similar now?
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Just upgraded from RC2 to RC3 and all is ok.
My fossil PII Scenic Siemens-Nixdorf with NVIDIA GPU GeForce FX 5500 was never this fast.
Great job !
Regards,
Tibi
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This isn't a major bug and I haven't really looked into it further yet but, at some point, probably after I installed NVidia non-free driver 173.x, I noticed that the icon for the TazPkg manager on the right side of the lower panel, has disappeared. I can still get to it through the System Tools menu though. BTW, for those with a system similar to mine, GLXGears with above NVidia drivers, reports about 7000 frames/5sec or about 1400 fps, the highest I've ever seen it on my setup.
@JTCullen64 : the icon for the Tazpkg manager on the right side of the lower panel is a desktop notification that there are upgrades of your packages available on the repos. Once your system up-to-date, it disappears.
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Unfortunatly, Midori 0.4.4 crashes with hotmail.
You can forget Midori for Slitaz 4
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