General TC > Tiny Core Netbooks
Dell Mini 9
h-munster:
Thanks for the explanation of "nodhcp" and for the reference to flit.tcz.
So, your brightness and sound keys on your Mini 9 are working in TC? Wow! They don't on my Mini 9.
I have been playing around with the brightness keys during boot-up, and the brightness can sometimes be adjusted with the keys, when viewing the grub menu. It doesn't always work.
However, the brightness keys have no effect when TC is running.
What do you mean "that the Mini 9 begins to flash red?"
roberts:
No. I am saying that I don't need any adjustments to my brightness or sound.
The flashing red is the battery led indicator, warning when battery is low.
h-munster:
Still searching for a way to adjust brightness. If I could do that, I'd wipe the stock Ubuntu from the SSD.
Will try flit for sound adjustment -- thanks!
Been using "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state" to see charge level.
h-munster:
Still trying to find a way to adjust brightness on the Mini 9 with Xvesa.
I was able to adjust brightness on the Mini 9 with some other distros by using:
--- Code: ---echo num > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
--- End code ---
(where "num" is a value from 0 to 15.)
This worked in the Dell stock Ubuntu and also with the latest Puppy Linux. The command did not work in TC nor in Slitaz.
Ubuntu uses Xorg, and Puppy allows one to select Xorg or Xvesa at boot, but I chose Xvesa. Both TC and Slitaz default to Xvesa.
I soon realized that there is no /sys/class/backlight directory in TC nor in Slitaz.
The Mini 9 has an Intel 945GME Graphics controller. Ubuntu and Puppy seem to load the Intel drivers by default: "agpgart" and "intel-agp" (and, additionally in Ubuntu, "drm" and "i915"). None of these Intel drivers are loaded/found in TC nor Slitaz with the default Xvesa.
I think that the lack of these Intel drivers could be the culprit.
I Found this thread on manually compiling the Intel drivers for TC: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?PHPSESSID=620d386150e9d11f7dc5f814e78e8e89&topic=280.msg1696#msg1696
This process seems a little unwieldy.
If I install the Xorg extension, would these drivers automatically be installed/loaded? Could I then save the drivers and purge Xorg to revert back to Xvesa with the new drivers?
It is probably inconsequential to try the Xorg install/purge, but I was wondering if anyone just happens to know the answer.
One good thing that has come out of this trial and error process: I have discovered that Puppy works almost perfectly on the Mini 9. So, I can wipe the Ubuntu bloat from the Mini 9's SSD and replace it with Puppy, until I get TC up to speed.
curaga:
The extension graphics-2.6.29.1 has the intel agp modules.
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