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Hi, I've been testing version 4 on an aging laptop, everything is working great but as the screen is a bit flickery and sometimes goes completely off I wanted to connect to external monitor. So I booted from the live cd, external monitor is working fine through the whole process until just before it goes into the Slitaz gui the monitor goes off. The laptop screen is still on of course so I'm sure that there is a setting I'm missing somewhere but I can't find it, only settings for resolution, nothing I can find to set which monitor I want to use. Is there a setting somewhere that takes care of this or will I need to find a driver or change something in the command line??
I'm a newbie so sorry if this is a daft question, any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Jamie
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Just to add the video is ATI Mobility Radeon 9200.
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can prove open xterm as root and
# tazx
xorg Install or reconfigure xorg
ati driver
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Thanks for the quick reply but as I'm a newbie I don't really know what that means.
Where do I find the xorg ati driver and how do I reconfigure it? Do I need to add something into the xorg.config file, I'm assuming I am only changing the vga output from off to on or false to true but without knowing the syntax I'm at a loss really.
I found this to add to the xorg.config file, can't remember where..
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-64
VertRefresh 43-60
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
Option "Clone" "true"
EndSection
But it does say add it to the end of the xorg.config file but as that file is blank I'm assuming that I'm doing something wrong. Also, I wouldn't know if all of the parameters will be correct for my monitor and wouldn't know how to check.
Sorry for my ignorance but that's why I'm asking you guys after all.
Another thing, I know that slitaz was built from scratch but what distro is it based on so that I can better search for solutions, in my experience with hardware issues I've found that you can waste hours (or days) trying things out before finally giving up without success as there are so many different versions.
Thanks again.
Jamie
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follow these steps while connected to the internet:
open the terminal (console) and type
$ su (enter)
$ **password** (enter)
and there being as root #
type
# tazx (enter) and a dialog box appears
select
Xorg Install or reconfigure Xorg (enter)
select
ati driver
ok
log out/in X session
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Thanks for doing that, I think I ignored the tazx bit which is why it did nothing. Sorry.
So after it does its thing, it says 'Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices configuration failed'
I'm not sure if that is what it should say but I can't actually log out and and back in to see if it has made any difference, logging out gives me a frozen blank screen or a screen full of odd hyroglifics, so all I can do after this is turn off the power. I'm still using the live cd so I'm going to have to install it to the hard drive first to see if we're making progress.
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I don't think know what 'from scratch' means if your asking which distro SliTaz is based on. If you build a dog house from scratch, it means you went out to buy some planks, nails and with a general idea of how one should look, you built one. You did not have a pre-existing or old dog house you just built over or renovated. It did not exist until you made one from it's raw parts. That's we mean when we say from scratch. If you want a rough guides for help, try the archlinux wiki since it's also pretty much a do-it-yourself distro, but know that not everything is exactly the same.
That said, mobile ATi cards work weirdly with SliTaz. Some require you to boot with a higher resolution to work and the double x start bug doesn't help. In the LiveCD menu, select Command line and type:
core lang=en_US kmap=us vga=726 screen=1024x768x24
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Nice analogy and I get what you're saying, I wasn't suggesting that SliTaz was built on top of anything else. What I was asking was if the developers, perhaps through experience of working more on one particular distro would then choose to work to certain conventions that they already know. I've already figured that not everything is exactly the same but some things have got to be similar than others, so I was looking more to avoid the vastly different,anyway good to know about archlinux. Having said that you're not going to get better advice than from the dedicated forum and although the problem isn't solved yet I am more than happy with the assistance I've received here, especially as it has to be a relatively small community with it having such a specific philosophy, so thanks!
Tried the command line boot as suggested but it's still not working unfortunately:(
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Ok, so I've installed it on the hard drive, tried the tazx fix as originally suggested, rebooted and now we're good! I've now got the vga working and I can log in and out of x without any issues, the strange hyroglifs seem to have gone too. The only thing, which is strange, is that since the fix, the bottom tool panel/bar has just disappeared! No biggie as I didn't really want two panels anyway, so it actually saved me a job of deleting one, I just moved the top one to the bottom and added and removed items as needed.
So thanks again for the help, can mark this one as solved I reckon.
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Good news you have solved your problem.
Subject panels:
To bring back both panels:
rm ~/.config/lxpanel/slitaz/panels/*
For user tux: (this option works well I)
rm /home/tux/.config/lxpanel/slitaz/panels/*
Logout/in X session
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Worked like a charm, thanks!
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