(re)Start issues

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Hi all,

I just wiped Zenwalk 6.0 and installed SalixOs.
And having some slight trouble, as I dont remember all settings or how to get it...

1. How to get the video configuration up? I want to get full support for my Ati Radeon 9250...but I dont know how to boot into a terminal session to run it...
2. There were some "scripts" for Thunar to get access on files/directory with immediate root access - but were to look up?
3. I used Claws previously and saved the directories/folders on a SD Card. How to get back to a working Claws best?
...
These are the most urgent questions, rest will come.

Installation went fast and smooth, just around the Lilo configuration/install the system went back to line output rather than video output, but with next screen all went fine again.

So, Good Job Gentlemen!

Maybe a XFCE bug, but the shutdown panel always has some kind of html tags on top...instead of a real heading...

Thanks in advance for your help!

[gapan]

1. How to get the video configuration up? I want to get full support for my Ati Radeon 9250...but I dont know how to boot into a terminal session to run it...

If you run init 3 from a root terminal you will drop to console only mode. Or you could enter Linux 3 after you hit the TAB key at the lilo boot prompt. Go back to graphical mode with init 4

2. There were some "scripts" for Thunar to get access on files/directory with immediate root access - but were to look up?

Maybe I don't understand exactly what you mean, but if you want to open a thunar window as the root user, the fastest way would be to open a terminal window, su to become root and run thunar from there. Not having a more obvious option to use that is deliberate, users should not be encouraged to launch file manager windows as the root user, they could destroy their system really easy.

3. I used Claws previously and saved the directories/folders on a SD Card. How to get back to a working Claws best?

Do you want to keep your mail on the SD card or move them to your HD? If you want to keep them in the SD card, then you need to point claws-mail to it I guess somehow (sorry I don't use claws-mail, so I'm not that familiar with it). If you want to move them to your HD, just move them to the appropriate directories.

Maybe a XFCE bug, but the shutdown panel always has some kind of html tags on top...instead of a real heading...

What language do you use? thenktor has shown me exactly the same thing with German. It's a bug with the German translation in xfce.

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Or you could enter Linux 3 after you hit the TAB key at the lilo boot prompt. Go back to graphical mode with init 4

That was what I was looking after! Thanks!

What language do you use? thenktor has shown me exactly the same thing with German. It's a bug with the German translation in xfce.

Yes! German as well!

Re Thunar, I think to remember there are some Thunar goodies somewhere out, so the user can add several options to the standard Thunar menues. Maybe I will find it again. Its really handy if you can open a file in geany as root from Thunar without going

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in terminal first. I will keep you posted!

So Claws is probably straight forward - Thanks!

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Hi,

still no luck with videoconfig!

When I ran

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Linux 3

on boot up, I came to a terminal screen.
But whatever I did, "videoconfig" is not recognised as a command...

Where am I wrong?

Help!

[gapan]

Re Thunar, I think to remember there are some Thunar goodies somewhere out, so the user can add several options to the standard Thunar menues. Maybe I will find it again.

Oh, I see what you mean now. You can find that by going to Edit/Configure custom actions.

still no luck with videoconfig!

When I ran

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Linux 3

on boot up, I came to a terminal screen.
But whatever I did, "videoconfig" is not recognised as a command...

Where am I wrong?

You're not wrong. There is no videoconfig command in Salix. Why do you want one? Do you want to create a xorg.conf? Doesn't your graphics card get autodetected properly by xorg without one? I'm sorry, I'm completely unfamiliar with ati cards.

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Gapan,

thanks.

Well I thought doing "videoconfig" is a recommended standard to ensure the graphic card is detetced properly and not to run just VESA standard.
But if that behaviour has changed in X, I will not care!
How can I see/check whether the ATI driver is used?

[gapan]

You shouldn't need any xorg.conf at all with recent xorg versions. It should autoconfigure properly. Check your xorg logs in /var/log/Xorg.0.log to be sure.

Another way to test is remove the xf86-video-vesa package. If xorg can still launch after that, then you can be sure it wasn't used at all.

[thenktor]

The german xfce logout bug exists from the beginning in all xfce 4.6 versions but AFAIK it's finally fixed in svn.

For you graphics problem:
http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/U ... org_driver
I think possible drivers are ati, radeonhd & radeon, but I'm not sure.

[Shador]

Yes it is fixed:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5279

There is also a patch should you want to fix it.

[Akuna]

My new ati card also did'nt work well out of the box. I had to download the proprietary driver & install it. But first you will probably have to slapt-get the kernel-source package until the kernel-headers is fixed.

You'll find the driver plus install instructions here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx