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xomrk2

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Registered: 2017-04-24

Posts: 14

Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

Great distro, thanks!

Sry 4 my English!

I downloaded recent slitaz-rolling-10in1.iso.

On my virtual machine it was wonderful and so I decided to install it on my very old HP nc6000  (Intel Pentium M 1.4GHz, 512Mb RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9600  32Mb). This laptop runs fine Debian 9 Stretch wit XFCE without any video issues. But I want Your great distro as second OS on it.

So, I burnt CD and booted from it with default settings.

Well, all text fields on panel were absent. No wallpaper. All graphical elements of the panel are rendered normally - 'shut down' button, 'spider' button (with no text on the right), etc.

When I push spider button, the opened menu is filled with colored horizontal stripes like this (I couldn't make screenshot, this is similar one form Internet) https://otvet.imgsmail.ru/download/88550f188a9c3b40669d0bec7b60e392_i-141.jpg.

All inner field of any app is filled with such stripes. Any dialogue buttons contain normal graphical pictograms and empty space insted of text.

Please help! I really want this wonderful OS on my old laptop!

venchancer

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Registered: 2015-10-25

Posts: 17

Re: Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

> I downloaded recent slitaz-rolling-10in1.iso.

First of all 10in1 it is NOT recent, but 2014

> slitaz-rolling-10in1.iso 2014-Oct-26 12:10:00 52.0M

> slitaz-rolling-10in1.iso

  Full desktop with 32 bits kernel and 64 bits Kernel (2x), with gtkonly, justx and base alternatives + a tiny debug mode (5x)

Are you sure you need this "a tiny debug mode"?

Just get any other iso except 10in1.

xomrk2

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Registered: 2017-04-24

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Re: Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

TY!

And which distro is the freshest one?

venchancer

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Registered: 2015-10-25

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Re: Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

You can see dates on this page, where you got this  damned 10-in-1 http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/

2017 is "freshest one"

2014 is not

ANY rolling iso but NOT again 10in1.

Best choice:

http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling.iso

xomrk2

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Registered: 2017-04-24

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Re: Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

TY again!

Another stupid question from Linux newbie. If I check 'Install a boot loader' during installation process on already multiboot Linux system with grub2, what it will do? Would it pick up old grub2 entries to a new config or what?

venchancer

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Registered: 2015-10-25

Posts: 17

Re: Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

> Would it pick up old grub2 entries to a new config

No, if you check 'Install a boot loader' during installation grub2 will be removed.

xomrk2

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Registered: 2017-04-24

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Re: Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

WOW!The new live CD booted fine! TY again!

OK, so I will install it without this option  ('Install a boot loader') and then I will need to add menuentry to my grub2 config file, right?

Let's say I'm going to install SliTaz on /dev/sda4 partition.

Should I add 'boot' flag in GParted while preparing this partition?

Can You show me what entry should I add to grub config file? Or can You provide me a link to FAQ or smth. about this question?

xomrk2

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Registered: 2017-04-24

Posts: 14

Re: Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

Well, I installed http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling.iso and added it to boot menu.

Now I have the same problem as in original post. It is rather strange because Live CD booted normally and all screen elements were rendered OK without any glitches.

How can I fix this problem?

xomrk2

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Registered: 2017-04-24

Posts: 14

Re: Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

tty1-6 work fine

xomrk2

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Registered: 2017-04-24

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Re: Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

So I downloaded (from another system) ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run

I chmoded and ran it in tty1.

After a while script says:

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version...

So ATI firmware is too old for SliTaz

venchancer

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Registered: 2015-10-25

Posts: 17

Re: Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

add this kernel option to grub config:

video=-32

It should be after root=/dev/sda4

xomrk2

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Registered: 2017-04-24

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Re: Stripes on the screen (boot from live CD)

venchancer, TY! It worked!