graphics etc

[cast-fish]

hello

i am running a CD disc version of TCL 4.3.1 virgin system

i followed the FAQ and started using the Framebuffer X driver
called Xfbdev.tcz

When this boots up it seems fine, but i notice that Xvesa
is also installed on the system. Why?...

Top tells me the system has 217 megs of free ram and 36 megs
used up.

i then istalled OSS sound ....which it states is just 1.52 megs
with it's deps.  After this i see that top is now showing
177 megs of free ram. WHy has OSS used 40 megs of ram to run?
Is that what it needs?

Is TOP really a good way of seeing what available ram your
system currently has?

One more question below. PLease.

When i was using TCL with traditional
Xvesa last week, i often found it very handy to re-set the system
by dropping to the prompt and restarting X. This seemed to refresh
the entire TCL system.  What is the equivalent move when you
are in the framebuffer?

Thanks

V.

[gerald_clark]

http://www.linuxatemyram.com/

Use the "exit" program and exit to prompt.

If Xvesa is installed it is because it is in onboot.lst or is a dependency of something in onboot.lst.

[cast-fish]

HEllo

the exit option on the TCL shutdown menu does nothing when in Framebuffer mode.

The Xvesa never appears in any onboot list on this machine. No matter what...it never
appears there on a virgin boot of the CD of TCL 4.3.1...(it simply says Xvesa is
"installed" when you inspect the system from control panel and look unde the tab
"installed".

There does not seem to be any list anywhere that shows Xvesa as an onboot item. So
it can't be removed.

Also, on a raw TCL virgin boot to framebuffer (Xfbdev.tcz) Xvesa is not a dependancy of the framebuffer...and the framebuffer is the only manual thing on the system that i did

So Xvesa seems non-optional on this computer. I can't see how to stop TCL installing
Xvesa.

?

V
AL

[gerald_clark]

Show the output of 'showbootcodes' and the contents of your onboot.lst.

[cast-fish]

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tc@box:~$ showbootcodes
initrd=/boot/core.gz quiet cde BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz tce=sdb1 vga=785 waitusb=10
tc@box:~$

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onboot.lst

Xfbdev.tcz

[gerald_clark]

You are booting the installation CD.  Create a tce directory on writable media and use the Core CD instead of the TinyCore CD.

[cast-fish]

right

the 9 meg "core" version without a Gui.  Then you run apps that are designed for the
framebuffer and can produce graphics. e.g. Mplayer.

With this "core" version will loading Xfbdev.tcz give me a Gui windows environement.

trouble is, not got a CD burner here....just thumb drives.

Is it possible to do all this by putting "core" iso  into a linux partition on a thumb drive someplace?

Or does it require the whole thumbdrive to boot "core" from a thumbdrive?

V

[gerald_clark]

Run tc-install and install to another thumb drive.

Really, now.  You have almost 700 posts here and you still don't understand the most basic things about Tiny Core.
Have you even read the book?

[cast-fish]

Hello

No i never understood tinycore basics.

No, i don't read much cos of dyslexia. I have seen the book and
it didn't seem too long. May take a look at it sometime.

V

[gerald_clark]

Maybe help you again sometime.