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Hi all,
So finally here it is! SliTaz 4.0 is on the mirrors, the rush is finished! Note, there are still flavors uploading, including an Xorg Light flavor. Please feel free to report Errata on the dedicated Wiki page and any solutions: http://doc.slitaz.org/en:releases:4.0:errata
Announce: http://www.slitaz.org/en/#news
Relnotes: http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/releases/4.0/relnotes.en.html
The packages repository is setup and will receive bug and security fixes until 5.0. It's the first time we have a working build bot for stable so updates are much easier and a cron run like for Cooking and Undigest. http://cook.slitaz.org/stable/
Thanks and big Hug to everyone who contributed to this release. SliTaz is an amazing community! Now work on 5.0 have already started, I know some devs have new features to implement and I will continue improve SliTaz services and organization. Please use the Roadmap before any big
changes in the distro: http://roadmap.slitaz.org/
In SliTaz 4.0 you will find a new entry in the Network menu "SliTaz bug report", but it will not work before a few days. This is a new bug tracker, our bug tracker with full desktop integration so users can post bugs from the desktop and it is a new try to have main devs using
it! More info: http://hg.slitaz.org/tazbug/raw-file/tip/README
Best regards,
- Christophe
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Prem's !
Hi all !
Slitaz 4.00 ! Yes !!!
Unfortunately, same problem with Xorg on my Eeebox with this version :
[c](EE) HID 046a:0023: failed to initialize for relatives axes[/c]
It seems to be a keyboard problem ? It's a USB keyboard Cherry G-230
I tried to choose language on startup but same problem.
I also tried a Xorg -configure and a X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
I also tried to remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add setxkbmap -model pc105 layout pt in ~/.xinitrc : same problem...
Any idea ?
Thanks
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awesome,slitaz is really an awesome distro for old hardware thanks to every one who contribute on devoloping this awesome OS
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@tux61
can you try to boot without the usb keyboard and plug it in later - to verify, if it is really the keyboard
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What is the idea behind the "proxy" flavour?
Well I realized that there is just one rootfs.gz file instead of 4, and it seems there was gzip instead of lzma compression and no Sakura installed. But it seems for me: all that's not the point.
Btw: it works fine with unetbootin (unlike the standard iso).
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@kultex : Without the keyboard my computer does not want to start !
However, I try the following commands successfully :
1) on startup, CTRL+ALT+Tab
2) log on root/root on the terminal
3) rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
4) replace "nv" by "vesa" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf
5) startx
6) install nvidia proprietary driver
7) CTRL+ALT+Tab
8) nvidia-xconfig
9) startx !
But, big big problem, I lost my "home partition" on install... And of course my backup is older !
It seems that install program format even when you say no...
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How can I install SliTaz 4.0 grub into the partition boot record rather than the MBR?
I run a shareware boot loader from Terabyte called BootIt Bare Metal and it controls the MBR. When I installed Ubuntu, it allowed me to install grub to sda1 rather than sda.
The Boot menu shows SliTaz using Grub4DOS which I have no knowledge about. The 4.0 RC used to display a Splash image with a spider graphic, but it is not showing on the final 4.0 iso install.
I am pretty new to this, so my terminology may be a bit off.
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Unable to install SliTaz 4.0 from the LiveCD; Tazpanel returns the message :
Warning: /dev/cdrom: Mount failed
Error 3 Invalid source
When cdrom is mounted via the file manager, Tazpanel sees it in "Statistiques d'utilisation du système de fichiers" as... hdc !
Disque Taille Disponible Utilisé Point de montage
hdc 34.7M 0 34.7M - 100% /media/SliTaz core-4in1
Not really a bug. Probably due to my main board (ASUS P4T), the cdrom is connected to the second ide port.
I start to understand why I never successed to mount the cdrom in command line with LiveCD 3.0 ...
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Tazpanel-installer does'nt do Windows dual boot; message "Attention : Aucune partition Windows trouvée. Dual-boot désactivé" in /var/log/tazinst.log. Yet, TGT_WINBOOT is correctly set to"auto" in /var/lib/tazinst.conf
I have to add lines in /boot/grub/menu.lst
# For booting Windows XP from : /dev/hda1
#
title Windows XP SP3
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Bug with Tazpanel-installer ?
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@Ceel:
what is the output of :
[c]# fdisk -l[/c]
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Just giving the new release a spin, this is one hell of a release.
Thank you pankso and all the contributors!!!!!! I have been looking forward to this for ages 
Have an issue under 4.0: When booting from CD (4in1 ISO), after selecting the language (en_US) and keymap (us), the screen just sits at a blank/black screen with no drive access (either HD or CDROM) apparent. It just sits there, staring back at me. 
This is on a Thinkpad T21 with an Intel AGP graphics adapter, and 256MB of RAM.
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@Ceel
No bug. You must not forget to set the hook in tazpanel-installer on ,,dual-boot". I did that and it worked out of the box.
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Hi all,
I have the same error like @tux61, concerning the (EE) line in Xorg log, and I don;t know if it is relavant for what I will describe bellow.
SliTaz boots, using vesa, so I installed openchrome, as my laptop uses it. Kill X, than startx and no cursor, and (inner?) screen seems wider, so one of the two icons (my docs) goes "into" the upper panel. Cursor seems to be there, but invisible, as I could click on the terminal icon (I see when the icons gets a bit highlighted). As soon as I open it, and exit it, cursor is there, but a "X-style" cursor, not the normal one. Also, couldn't right click or anything.
Ok, created xorg.conf, added SWcursor - no joy. On 3.0 I used custom xorg.conf with these changes and it was working.
Another serious thing, I use 'tazusb writefs gzip' but after reboot I still get the normal usb live install. No apps I installed, no openchrome no nothing. Has something changed in SliTaz in 4.0. :?
Thnk you all for your effort.
All best
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I think that Slitaz and Linux will go forward if a kind of "Hardware-ID" could be set
for each problem.
Imagine a system where the user connect to slitaz website which will send-return a scan diagnostic of hardware, then a kind of customed kernel/firmware Slitaz will be proposed to direct frugal/install on a plugged usb. Reboot and the user will have a form with checkbox to mention what works or not and a bug-report will auto-test in parallel to see
Then Slitaz team will have automatic real huge database to track hardware bugs. At the end, Slitaz team will be able to know what works perferctly with specific computer eee's and/or wireless card's, sound ...
I think that forums are not sufficiently formal to know if there's a real bug or not and there's so much redundancy
Is there a slitax-4.0-xvesa.iso download available?
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Hello domcox + michaelbischof,
Sorry to answer so late.
@domcox
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 8287 66565296 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 8288 8418 1052257+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3 8419 9730 10532865 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 8419 9668 10036224 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 9668 9730 495616 82 Linux swap
@michaelbischof
I didn't forget to hook Enable Windows Dual-Boot.
I've meat first the "problem" when I installed the rolling release (same computer, same partition /dev/hda5). Thats why I've checked TGT_WINBOOT in /var/lib/tazinst.conf before to click on [Proceed to Slitaz installation].
I don't say it's a bug; I suppose if it was one, there were other posts reporting it.
I've just thought to beginners. I guess if it happened 3 years ago, when I started with Linux and SliTaz, I'd have been in a "ceel panic" at boot thinking I've lost Windows and all my data...
Lubuntu 10.04 with Grub and dual boot was installed on hda5 before I definitively choose SliTaz. Do you think it is possible there is a relation ?
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Hi, Slitaz 4.0 is great, I'd like to thank the team and all contributors. I stared using Slitaz 3.0 few months ago on an old PC, worked great, I just did fresh install of 4.0 on a separate partition and works great.
I have a couple of issues on a newer netbook Acer Aspire 1810z:
- Wireless Intel Intel Wireless-N 1000 "iwlagn" on this netbook doesn't work with Slitaz 3 or 4, it loads the drivers, I installed the firmware from the TazPanel Packages.
- Second issued is the Synoptics touchpad acting weired, instead of moving the cursor on desktop it changes to desktop 2 and 1 that's all it does.
Any suggestion is appreciated
Thanks
lsmod:
Module Size Used by
iwlagn 141847 0
iwlcore 40041 1 iwlagn
mac80211 145388 2 iwlagn iwlcore
cfg80211 99896 3 iwlagn iwlcore mac80211
rfkill 10682 1 cfg80211
atl1c 22796 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 16401 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 202176 1
snd_hda_intel 15886 1
snd_hda_codec 45027 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 3808 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 43737 2 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 12515 1 snd_pcm
snd 33394 9 snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer
soundcore 3357 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 4853 2 snd_hda_intel snd_pcm
i915 254040 2
drm_kms_helper 18798 1 i915
drm 111992 3 i915 drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 3479 1 i915
button 3602 1 i915
i2c_core 12192 4 i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit
video 9783 1 i915
output 1144 1 video
intel_agp 7908 1 i915
intel_gtt 9214 3 i915 intel_agp
agpgart 18221 3 drm intel_agp intel_gtt
Boot log,Xorg.log : http://pastebin.com/0c7KMgQ2
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Congratulations, guys!
//Just bought an Archos 101 G9 Turbo tablet (dualcore OMAP4460@1.5GHz, 1 Gig of ram and 16 gigs of flash drive, 1280x800 display), looking forward to porting SliTaz to it.
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I use Slitaz as a portable on usb stick. With all applications I need for day to day use it's 150-200MB.
I find it a perfect system loaded totally to ram.
So far everything works great on HP 6510b, except audio cds.
It's ok when playing flash content or .wav files, but cd doesn't even start when I click "play CD" in AlsaPlayer.
Do I need to install any additional packages, or it should work out of the box?
Anyway, congratulations to the team!
As I see it, nowadays, when most popular systems have a few gigs and occupy more and more cpu resources, you have chosen the right way to build something fresh and recognizable among the others.
You have now strong base to expanded with new apps and functionalities. Continue good job, and good luck!
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@karthanon try [torrent] http://tinyurl.com/7tdkxyk slitaz-4.0-RC1.iso recent cooking iso.
It's the only version 4 that boots on my old thing (v.3.0-xorg and xvesa boot ok) without turning off my display.
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Hello and my congratulations for Slitaz 4; it is excellent!
On purpose I use Slitaz since the version 2 in all my Pc's; from a Pentium 100; an AMD K6; an Athlon & a Pentium Dual Core; as they will see I am a fan of Slitaz!!!
A single thing:
The link to download "packages-4.0.iso" it doesn't work...
Greetings!
PD:What is there about a flavor of Slitaz 4 / 64 bits ?
Probably because the file for that link doesn't exist yet - not that you could use the packages iso like you think you can 
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I'd like to add my personal THANK YOU to each and every contributor to Slitaz. I have been using V3.0 since it was released and have found it to be the best distribution I have ever used (until V4.0). I'm now using V4.0 to go from boot to browser in 35-45 seconds (running "live" on wired systems) and I haven't encountered one problem. Slitaz V4.0 was worth waiting for!
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