Ok, I Lied

[Gary A]

I have said at least a dozen times that Linux is not worth the bother. I bought Linspire and it is so slow it is disgusting. Since then I have played with DSL, it stinks but Puppy got my interest. I finally decided that Puppy wasn't worth the effort to learn all the quirks. I was reading about Mandriva and checking the download found out it would fit on one CD. After a couple of failed downloads I finally got it downloaded overnight and it installed fairly easily. I will take the time to work with Mandriva and after my learning curve I may start using it. I am on it now and but still have a lot of things to learn. Cups doesn't work and I can't use my printer. I was surprised to find that Bluetooth works and my Nokia phone was recognized and hooks up.

[geoffphuket]

I've tried several flavours of Linux...Ubuntu, Knoppix, - even the latest Vixta offering (Fedora in a new overcoat ). None of them recognise my new laptop's video card, sound card or even my Sierra aircard - making it impossible to connect to the internet. What programs can be made to work resemble stuff I used 20 odd years ago on my old Atari 1040 I just wish that all the experts that are out there would knock their heads together and come up with something to compete with Windows....somehow I don't think it'll happen in my day.

[RKASA]

Hang in there. I went that same route. Used them all, and I knew nothing about linux when I sta

rted.  PClinuxOS 2007 is based on Mandriva formly Mandrake, I have got to the point of feeling completely at home.  I deleted all MS products and have PClinuxOS installed without any dual OS or anything.  I never have to shut it down even to install software or updates, all of which is in the repos one click with synpatic. There is no package building, but for those that wish to.  In fact most windows programs are harder to install.  Why disrupt my torrents just for software download and installation.  I v only been using Linux for a few months, It easier then any type of MS product I ever used, flat out MS does not have anything like it.     My PC was built with windows XP in mind thats why it was installed when I got it, so first install with PClinuxOS needed a few adjustments, but after I got it completely set up including my own thame. I burned my own cd.  Now I have a OEM disk that better then any that was ever sent with a purchased PC. I just don't know when I will ever need it.

[Gary A]

Hang in there. I went that same route. Used them all, and I knew nothing about linux when I sta

rted. PClinuxOS 2007 is based on Mandriva formly Mandrake, I have got to the point of feeling completely at home. I deleted all MS products and have PClinuxOS installed without any dual OS or anything. I never have to shut it down even to install software or updates, all of which is in the repos one click with synpatic. There is no package building, but for those that wish to. In fact most windows programs are harder to install. Why disrupt my torrents just for software download and installation. I v only been using Linux for a few months, It easier then any type of MS product I ever used, flat out MS does not have anything like it. My PC was built with windows XP in mind thats why it was installed when I got it, so first install with PClinuxOS needed a few adjustments, but after I got it completely set up including my own thame. I burned my own cd. Now I have a OEM disk that better then any that was ever sent with a purchased PC. I just don't know when I will ever need it.

I was able to download PC Linux overnight and got it installed successfully. It is very similar to Mandriva EXCEPT everything works. I'm impressed.

[RKASA]

Once your installed from the livecd into a drive you can do the first big download from the repos.  The cd is only 695mb so it get about 1/3 of whats to offer compressed.  My install at root is now up to 4.3gig.  Open the repos select one mirror site from list then click reload and it will sync whats in the repos to whats on your install. then cleck all updates and it will download and install all the changes after the last release.  Its pretty big right now.  Sometimes it has to be re applied to because it will install a load of things and have others left to download.    Thats because somethigs have to be installed before others.  Just keep asking for updates until its done.  Then using the seach you will have all the software tested and approved PClinuxOS list right in the repos. Start installing whatever ya want.  I sign in to the support forum and it great, lots of quick helpful replys.  Another thing I never saw at MS.

[Gary A]

I have to admit that it's pretty slick. MUCH better than I expected after trying so many other distros. It appears that it will be running all night downloading different things that I chose.

[RKASA]

Its the only place you have to go to get all your software and it keeps all your software and OS up to date.  If ya see a program thats not in the repos that you want get the info about it togather and go into the PClinuxOS forum and use the request tread.  The gang is great if they don't see a functional problem with it they get it into the repos right away and others get to know about your find.  It took me couple weeks to really get rolling, still learning something new everyday.  If one program ya try is buggy on your system there is almost alway four or five optional programs to do the same thing. I v been just having a blast with it.  If I am in a hurry I use the GUI to do th

ings otherwise I drop down into

Konsole and work out the commandline method just to learn more. 

[Gary A]

I had the first glitch in PC Linux. I downloaded Google Earth and when I try to open it PC Linux freezes up. I ended up having to shut off the power and reboot.

Added - It also looks like chances of getting Garmin Map Source to run are between slim and none.

Edited November 14, 2007 by Gary A

[RKASA]

Posts: 51

QLandkarte

« on: October 16, 2007, 07:53:20 AM » Quote

Tool for displaying, watching, downloading and uploading maps to GPS Garmin devices.

Rough Garmin's MapSource replacement for Linux.

http://qlandkarte.sourceforge.net/

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Q...e?content=49378

This is especially useful for GPS Garmin owners, like me.

I'm going to test it today or tomorrow but the screenshots look promising.

All requirements are already in PCLOS repos (Qt, proj, usblib).

not sure if this worked out for them are not, place to start. Sounds like its in the repos.  I use googleearth all the time, make sure KDE extentions are installed if not open office will do the same thing.  If ya get hung up on anything use the forum they are real good.  http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=58

[francois]

hi'

I'm testing Mandriva 2008.0 powerpack ... so far so good

distro of the year

unbutu 7.10 still have to progress and Debian in4.0 or 4.0rc1 same ... problem with intel ICH9R

françois

[dave_boo]

I had the first glitch in PC Linux. I downloaded Google Earth and when I try to open it PC Linux freezes up. I ended up having to shut off the power and reboot.

Added - It also looks like chances of getting Garmin Map Source to run are between slim and none.

I don't know if you're running an nvidia graphic card, but there's a known issue with the open source driver(binary mostly it semes) causing google earth to crash. Building it from nvidia's source fixes the issue.

Also, it's only a 32 bit app....if you're running a 64 bit enviroment, it freaks out.

[Gary A]

I got bored playing with PC Linux so I am now playing with Ubuntu 7.1. It works about like the rest of them.The Ubuntu seems faster than the rest but still a major pain trying to get everything to work. The Garmin fix is no where near to working and I still can't get the Bluetooth GPRS to work. The computer sees the phone and can transfer files back and forth but no GPRS.

It will be a long time before I could possibly give up XP Pro.

[RKASA]

Lot of people keep the windows around for a long time,  I was forced just today to make a partition and bring it back.  Not anything that I need, but several other people want it so I put it in a 24gig partition and located it on the bottom of the boot list.  I was glad to have a update cd so I didn't have to download all the updates.  Its alittle out of date had to download all after mid July, but thats better then back to 2004.  After all that work they better use it.

[Gary A]

Lot of people keep the windows around for a long time, I was forced just today to make a partition and bring it back. Not anything that I need, but several other people want it so I put it in a 24gig partition and located it on the bottom of the boot list. I was glad to have a update cd so I didn't have to download all the updates. Its alittle out of date had to download all after mid July, but thats better then back to 2004. After all that work they better use it.

I have had problems with partitions in the past. Probably mostly because I didn't know what I was doing. If the hard drive dies, you lose everything anyways. I have a second SATA hard drive that I was using for backup. I now use a remote USB hard drive for backup and the second SATA hard drive for different Linux systems I want to try. It's not really fair to judge the speed of a system running on a CD or even a USB hard drive.

I originally wanted to run Linux on an old Toshiba laptop because it has only 64mb of ram. DSL won't boot and the other systems including Puppy need more ram than the laptop has. The old laptop works fine and I have decided to keep Windows 98 on it. It works fine for the Internet through a USB dongle and my cell phone. I hate to drag my high powered T43p laptop around the country. If I lose the old Toshiba, I won't feel so bad. I have decided that Linux is NOT the answer to bring old slow outdated computers back to life.

[Naam]

life is dull if Bill Gates and his rubbish software does not create any problems!

[dave_boo]

Lot of people keep the windows around for a long time, I was forced just today to make a partition and bring it back. Not anything that I need, but several other people want it so I put it in a 24gig partition and located it on the bottom of the boot list. I was glad to have a update cd so I didn't have to download all the updates. Its alittle out of date had to download all after mid July, but thats better then back to 2004. After all that work they better use it.

I have had problems with partitions in the past. Probably mostly because I didn't know what I was doing. If the hard drive dies, you lose everything anyways. I have a second SATA hard drive that I was using for backup. I now use a remote USB hard drive for backup and the second SATA hard drive for different Linux systems I want to try. It's not really fair to judge the speed of a system running on a CD or even a USB hard drive.

I originally wanted to run Linux on an old Toshiba laptop because it has only 64mb of ram. DSL won't boot and the other systems including Puppy need more ram than the laptop has. The old laptop works fine and I have decided to keep Windows 98 on it. It works fine for the Internet through a USB dongle and my cell phone. I hate to drag my high powered T43p laptop around the country. If I lose the old Toshiba, I won't feel so bad. I have decided that Linux is NOT the answer to bring old slow outdated computers back to life.

Sometimes an older laptop has a "broken" bios. If you boot up a Linux cd, using the nopcmcia; noapm; noapic options (or that distro's equivalent-i.e. pcmcia=no/off) most of the time you'll see it fire up. This comes from first hand knowledge, since my Twinhead Toughbook, which I love for just refusing to die, needs it. I am able to boot up distros, install them and rock and roll. However, for some reason, after installing SuSE, I needed to go back into safe mode and edit the pcmcia memory range file---definitely not something for a novice, but it took care of my problem.

Memory size can safely be gotten around by using Slackware Linux or even Slax, which I think would be better. Slax can be installed onto a thumbdrive and requires only 32mb of RAM

[Gary A]

I downloaded Slax and it wouldn't load on my Toshiba laptop. I thought maybe it was a bad burn on the CD. It wasn't. I burned another disk at a slow speed and got the same result. That disk works fine on my desktop.

I have come to the conclusion that the Toshiba hates all Linux distros. Puppy, DSL, DSL-no and now Slax won't run.

[dave_boo]

I downloaded Slax and it wouldn't load on my Toshiba laptop. I thought maybe it was a bad burn on the CD. It wasn't. I burned another disk at a slow speed and got the same result. That disk works fine on my desktop.

I have come to the conclusion that the Toshiba hates all Linux distros. Puppy, DSL, DSL-no and now Slax won't run.

When you're booting, at what point does the process freeze? You may want to check out this page, which lists Slax's boot parameters. Hopefully you can get it running! I would go through a process of elimination and determine which hardware it is, although I would bet dollars to doughnuts it is the pcmcia causing you problems. Try bootint with this:

slax nopcmcia noagp acpi=off

or you could try:

slax debug

[Gary A]

I think the problem is deeper than that. I have two hard drives for the laptop. The one with Windows 98SE I use. The other had Windows 2000 Pro that is very slow to use. The one with 2000 Pro wouldn't allow Slax to boot so I formatted that hard drive to FAT. It still doesn't recognize the CD unless I pull out the hard drive. It then boots up. The screen would go black at some point until I did the xconfig or configx, I don't remember which. It would then go all the way to having the icons at the bottom of the Slax screen then would sit there. The CD would just keep running. Although it looked to have the full screen with everything there, nothing would work and the CD just kept running. I let it run for at least an hour the last time and it just wouldn't finish up. None of the other Linux distros will boot with the hard drive in the machine either. If I use the 98 boot disk with the hard drive in the machine, I can see the files on the CD but am not smart enough to find an execute file to install the program to the hard drive.

[dave_boo]

I think the problem is deeper than that. I have two hard drives for the laptop. The one with Windows 98SE I use. The other had Windows 2000 Pro that is very slow to use. The one with 2000 Pro wouldn't allow Slax to boot so I formatted that hard drive to FAT. It still doesn't recognize the CD unless I pull out the hard drive. It then boots up. The screen would go black at some point until I did the xconfig or configx, I don't remember which. It would then go all the way to having the icons at the bottom of the Slax screen then would sit there. The CD would just keep running. Although it looked to have the full screen with everything there, nothing would work and the CD just kept running. I let it run for at least an hour the last time and it just wouldn't finish up. None of the other Linux distros will boot with the hard drive in the machine either. If I use the 98 boot disk with the hard drive in the machine, I can see the files on the CD but am not smart enough to find an execute file to install the program to the hard drive.

Gary, have you set your bios to boot from the CD-ROM drive first? That would be the first step, since if it was set for the HDD, it would boot faster, but you would have problems booting from a CD first.

I would recommend using the FAT formatted hdd, since you can easily install Slax onto that filesystem.

In regards to the screen going "black", Slax starts in runlevel 3. All Operating Systems have various runlevels. Even Windows has, which you can see if you do a restore; it drops you to a different shell. I however, don't know why it never finished loading your desktop enviroment.

You can't run Linux from a DOS prompt (Well technically you can, but you'd have to reconfigure Slax). The 98 boot disk loads DOS into memory, and since DOS stands for Disk Operating System, if you tried to load another Operating System into the same memory, there'd be problems....kinda like stuff 4 fat falangs onto a Yamaha Mio....there isn't space.

If you can reconfigure your BIOS, and set your hdd to boot first(should be under the boot priority tab), you don't even have to enter Slax's desktop enviroment to install it. Start your laptop, at the first sign of memory test, mash the "F1" key. Find the "Boot Priority" tab and make sure that the CD-ROM is set first. Reboot with your Slax CD in the drive. After Slax finishes loading, log in. Don't bother doing the "xconf" nor the "startx". Stay at the 'prompt' and type this:

[color="#FF0000"]$[/color] cd /mnt/cdrom			 [color="#2E8B57"]# replace /mnt/cdrom by mounted SLAX CD or ISO[/color]
[color="#FF0000"]$[/color] ./make_disk.sh /dev/sda1  [color="#2E8B57"]# replace sda1 by your target device name[/color]

B.T.W, you don't type those '$' signs, they just indicate that you need to be root. also, everything after and including the '#' signs indicates that they're comments and don't need to be included either.

Reboot, remove your Slax CD and see what happens. If you still have problems, you may want to update your BIOS.

Edited December 9, 2007 by dave_boo

[Gary A]

I think the problem is deeper than that. I have two hard drives for the laptop. The one with Windows 98SE I use. The other had Windows 2000 Pro that is very slow to use. The one with 2000 Pro wouldn't allow Slax to boot so I formatted that hard drive to FAT. It still doesn't recognize the CD unless I pull out the hard drive. It then boots up. The screen would go black at some point until I did the xconfig or configx, I don't remember which. It would then go all the way to having the icons at the bottom of the Slax screen then would sit there. The CD would just keep running. Although it looked to have the full screen with everything there, nothing would work and the CD just kept running. I let it run for at least an hour the last time and it just wouldn't finish up. None of the other Linux distros will boot with the hard drive in the machine either. If I use the 98 boot disk with the hard drive in the machine, I can see the files on the CD but am not smart enough to find an execute file to install the program to the hard drive.

Gary, have you set your bios to boot from the CD-ROM drive first? That would be the first step, since if it was set for the HDD, it would boot faster, but you would have problems booting from a CD first.

I would recommend using the FAT formatted hdd, since you can easily install Slax onto that filesystem.

In regards to the screen going "black", Slax starts in runlevel 3. All Operating Systems have various runlevels. Even Windows has, which you can see if you do a restore; it drops you to a different shell. I however, don't know why it never finished loading your desktop enviroment.

You can't run Linux from a DOS prompt (Well technically you can, but you'd have to reconfigure Slax). The 98 boot disk loads DOS into memory, and since DOS stands for Disk Operating System, if you tried to load another Operating System into the same memory, there'd be problems....kinda like stuff 4 fat falangs onto a Yamaha Mio....there isn't space.

If you can reconfigure your BIOS, and set your hdd to boot first(should be under the boot priority tab), you don't even have to enter Slax's desktop enviroment to install it. Start your laptop, at the first sign of memory test, mash the "F1" key. Find the "Boot Priority" tab and make sure that the CD-ROM is set first. Reboot with your Slax CD in the drive. After Slax finishes loading, log in. Don't bother doing the "xconf" nor the "startx". Stay at the 'prompt' and type this:

[color="#FF0000"]$[/color] cd /mnt/cdrom			 [color="#2E8B57"]# replace /mnt/cdrom by mounted SLAX CD or ISO[/color]
[color="#FF0000"]$[/color] ./make_disk.sh /dev/sda1  [color="#2E8B57"]# replace sda1 by your target device name[/color]

B.T.W, you don't type those '$' signs, they just indicate that you need to be root. also, everything after and including the '#' signs indicates that they're comments and don't need to be included either.

Reboot, remove your Slax CD and see what happens. If you still have problems, you may want to update your BIOS.

I updated the BIOS and tried again. Everything looked like it was going to work then I got a message; "Fatal server error: no screens found" It also tells me to check if I have the latest version. This one is build date 02 May 2006. I'll have to see if there is a later version available.

[dave_boo]

I think the problem is deeper than that. I have two hard drives for the laptop. The one with Windows 98SE I use. The other had Windows 2000 Pro that is very slow to use. The one with 2000 Pro wouldn't allow Slax to boot so I formatted that hard drive to FAT. It still doesn't recognize the CD unless I pull out the hard drive. It then boots up. The screen would go black at some point until I did the xconfig or configx, I don't remember which. It would then go all the way to having the icons at the bottom of the Slax screen then would sit there. The CD would just keep running. Although it looked to have the full screen with everything there, nothing would work and the CD just kept running. I let it run for at least an hour the last time and it just wouldn't finish up. None of the other Linux distros will boot with the hard drive in the machine either. If I use the 98 boot disk with the hard drive in the machine, I can see the files on the CD but am not smart enough to find an execute file to install the program to the hard drive.

Gary, have you set your bios to boot from the CD-ROM drive first? That would be the first step, since if it was set for the HDD, it would boot faster, but you would have problems booting from a CD first.

I would recommend using the FAT formatted hdd, since you can easily install Slax onto that filesystem.

In regards to the screen going "black", Slax starts in runlevel 3. All Operating Systems have various runlevels. Even Windows has, which you can see if you do a restore; it drops you to a different shell. I however, don't know why it never finished loading your desktop enviroment.

You can't run Linux from a DOS prompt (Well technically you can, but you'd have to reconfigure Slax). The 98 boot disk loads DOS into memory, and since DOS stands for Disk Operating System, if you tried to load another Operating System into the same memory, there'd be problems....kinda like stuff 4 fat falangs onto a Yamaha Mio....there isn't space.

If you can reconfigure your BIOS, and set your hdd to boot first(should be under the boot priority tab), you don't even have to enter Slax's desktop enviroment to install it. Start your laptop, at the first sign of memory test, mash the "F1" key. Find the "Boot Priority" tab and make sure that the CD-ROM is set first. Reboot with your Slax CD in the drive. After Slax finishes loading, log in. Don't bother doing the "xconf" nor the "startx". Stay at the 'prompt' and type this:

[color="#FF0000"]$[/color] cd /mnt/cdrom			 [color="#2E8B57"]# replace /mnt/cdrom by mounted SLAX CD or ISO[/color]
[color="#FF0000"]$[/color] ./make_disk.sh /dev/sda1  [color="#2E8B57"]# replace sda1 by your target device name[/color]

B.T.W, you don't type those '$' signs, they just indicate that you need to be root. also, everything after and including the '#' signs indicates that they're comments and don't need to be included either.

Reboot, remove your Slax CD and see what happens. If you still have problems, you may want to update your BIOS.

I updated the BIOS and tried again. Everything looked like it was going to work then I got a message; "Fatal server error: no screens found" It also tells me to check if I have the latest version. This one is build date 02 May 2006. I'll have to see if there is a later version available.

Did you run the 'xconf' before the 'startx'? And is this from being installed to the hdd?

[Gary A]

I think the problem is deeper than that. I have two hard drives for the laptop. The one with Windows 98SE I use. The other had Windows 2000 Pro that is very slow to use. The one with 2000 Pro wouldn't allow Slax to boot so I formatted that hard drive to FAT. It still doesn't recognize the CD unless I pull out the hard drive. It then boots up. The screen would go black at some point until I did the xconfig or configx, I don't remember which. It would then go all the way to having the icons at the bottom of the Slax screen then would sit there. The CD would just keep running. Although it looked to have the full screen with everything there, nothing would work and the CD just kept running. I let it run for at least an hour the last time and it just wouldn't finish up. None of the other Linux distros will boot with the hard drive in the machine either. If I use the 98 boot disk with the hard drive in the machine, I can see the files on the CD but am not smart enough to find an execute file to install the program to the hard drive.

Gary, have you set your bios to boot from the CD-ROM drive first? That would be the first step, since if it was set for the HDD, it would boot faster, but you would have problems booting from a CD first.

I would recommend using the FAT formatted hdd, since you can easily install Slax onto that filesystem.

In regards to the screen going "black", Slax starts in runlevel 3. All Operating Systems have various runlevels. Even Windows has, which you can see if you do a restore; it drops you to a different shell. I however, don't know why it never finished loading your desktop enviroment.

You can't run Linux from a DOS prompt (Well technically you can, but you'd have to reconfigure Slax). The 98 boot disk loads DOS into memory, and since DOS stands for Disk Operating System, if you tried to load another Operating System into the same memory, there'd be problems....kinda like stuff 4 fat falangs onto a Yamaha Mio....there isn't space.

If you can reconfigure your BIOS, and set your hdd to boot first(should be under the boot priority tab), you don't even have to enter Slax's desktop enviroment to install it. Start your laptop, at the first sign of memory test, mash the "F1" key. Find the "Boot Priority" tab and make sure that the CD-ROM is set first. Reboot with your Slax CD in the drive. After Slax finishes loading, log in. Don't bother doing the "xconf" nor the "startx". Stay at the 'prompt' and type this:

[color="#FF0000"]$[/color] cd /mnt/cdrom			 [color="#2E8B57"]# replace /mnt/cdrom by mounted SLAX CD or ISO[/color]
[color="#FF0000"]$[/color] ./make_disk.sh /dev/sda1  [color="#2E8B57"]# replace sda1 by your target device name[/color]

B.T.W, you don't type those '$' signs, they just indicate that you need to be root. also, everything after and including the '#' signs indicates that they're comments and don't need to be included either.

Reboot, remove your Slax CD and see what happens. If you still have problems, you may want to update your BIOS.

I updated the BIOS and tried again. Everything looked like it was going to work then I got a message; "Fatal server error: no screens found" It also tells me to check if I have the latest version. This one is build date 02 May 2006. I'll have to see if there is a later version available.

Did you run the 'xconf' before the 'startx'? And is this from being installed to the hdd?

No. I tried putting in the commands you gave me and it didn't recognize them. I went ahead and started "startx" and it looked like it was nearly finished booting when it gave me that Fatal server error. I have tried so many combinations that I'm sick of it and will take a break for a while. I did copy it to the hard drive with one of the commands it shows and it showed it being copied. That doesn't work either. Same message.

There is nothing wrong with the CD. In fact I'm using Slax right now on my desktop to write this post.

[dave_boo]

Could you give me the exact Toshiba model number? That may help me determine why it's having problems with your display adaptor. There may be something with it and Linux and I'll be able to look around for a work around.

Assuming that when you first had the cd in the drive, and used either 'slax debug' or 'slax nopcmcia noagp acpi=off", and it copied correctly, you may have to edit your x.org file. If you could make a copy of it, I'd be glad to give it a looking over and try and help you.

BTW... boot up Slax and don't try and enter the Desktop enviroment. Just stay at the command line. If you have a thumb drive (flash drive) plug that in and enter the command 'cd /mnt' than the command 'ls'. Your thumbdrive should be listed. Than issue the command 'cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /mnt/**whatever your thumbdrive has been assigned**'. Take your thumbdrive to your computer that's connected to the internet and paste that file into a post to me.

Are you liking Slax so far on your other machine? Nice and snappy?

**edit**

Ok, I'm an idiot. Don't know why I didn't think about the 'vga=*' codes earlier. Try using this table and the resolution that you need by the color depth you want (I'd stick to 65k, and go up from there).

Colors | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

----------+---------------------------------------------

256 | 769 771 773 775 796

32,768 | 784 787 790 793 797

65,536 | 785 788 791 794 798

16.8M | 786 789 792 795 799

Edited December 10, 2007 by dave_boo

[IvanLaw]

Off Topic BUT

I thought I was having problems leaning the Thai language BUT

Looking at the above makes me realise THAI IS NOT SO BAD

PC Switch on & if it works OK

If not shout my Son for help

Good Luck with your problem

Regards

[Gary A]

Could you give me the exact Toshiba model number? That may help me determine why it's having problems with your display adaptor. There may be something with it and Linux and I'll be able to look around for a work around.

Assuming that when you first had the cd in the drive, and used either 'slax debug' or 'slax nopcmcia noagp acpi=off", and it copied correctly, you may have to edit your x.org file. If you could make a copy of it, I'd be glad to give it a looking over and try and help you.

BTW... boot up Slax and don't try and enter the Desktop enviroment. Just stay at the command line. If you have a thumb drive (flash drive) plug that in and enter the command 'cd /mnt' than the command 'ls'. Your thumbdrive should be listed. Than issue the command 'cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /mnt/**whatever your thumbdrive has been assigned**'. Take your thumbdrive to your computer that's connected to the internet and paste that file into a post to me.

Are you liking Slax so far on your other machine? Nice and snappy?

**edit**

Ok, I'm an idiot. Don't know why I didn't think about the 'vga=*' codes earlier. Try using this table and the resolution that you need by the color depth you want (I'd stick to 65k, and go up from there).

Colors | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

----------+---------------------------------------------

256 | 769 771 773 775 796

32,768 | 784 787 790 793 797

65,536 | 785 788 791 794 798

16.8M | 786 789 792 795 799

[Gary A]

Could you give me the exact Toshiba model number? That may help me determine why it's having problems with your display adaptor. There may be something with it and Linux and I'll be able to look around for a work around.

Assuming that when you first had the cd in the drive, and used either 'slax debug' or 'slax nopcmcia noagp acpi=off", and it copied correctly, you may have to edit your x.org file. If you could make a copy of it, I'd be glad to give it a looking over and try and help you.

BTW... boot up Slax and don't try and enter the Desktop enviroment. Just stay at the command line. If you have a thumb drive (flash drive) plug that in and enter the command 'cd /mnt' than the command 'ls'. Your thumbdrive should be listed. Than issue the command 'cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /mnt/**whatever your thumbdrive has been assigned**'. Take your thumbdrive to your computer that's connected to the internet and paste that file into a post to me.

Are you liking Slax so far on your other machine? Nice and snappy?

**edit**

Ok, I'm an idiot. Don't know why I didn't think about the 'vga=*' codes earlier. Try using this table and the resolution that you need by the color depth you want (I'd stick to 65k, and go up from there).

Colors | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

----------+---------------------------------------------

256 | 769 771 773 775 796

32,768 | 784 787 790 793 797

65,536 | 785 788 791 794 798

16.8M | 786 789 792 795 799

It's a Toshiba Satellite 4025CDT with 64 mb ram. Last night I think I got beyond the video problem. It loaded (SLOWLY) to the point that everything was there and the menu would come up but wouldn't work. It then sat there for an hour and a half with the CD drive running. Finally a message that an unexpected problem occurred. I was a little (a lot) frustrated and turned the thing off without actually trying to remember the exact message.

I decided to download Feather Linux but Ipstar SUCKS and refuses to download any FTP. I'm actually using Ubuntu 7.1 on my desktop and am satisfied with it other than I can't use my Garmin Map Source. I considered installing Slax but my Ubuntu already has all the updates and is working well.

[Gary A]

Off Topic BUT

I thought I was having problems leaning the Thai language BUT

Looking at the above makes me realise THAI IS NOT SO BAD

PC Switch on & if it works OK

If not shout my Son for help

Good Luck with your problem

Regards

Actually what it is about is having a little challenge trying to make an old obsolete laptop computer run like an up to date machine. I really have no use for it because I have a fairly new laptop that has all the bells and whistles plus a fairly powerful desk top machine. I would like to see Linux make Microsoft nervous. It's just not there yet.