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Tiny Core 3.0 Alpha 7 Testing
SvOlli:
--- Quote from: curaga on June 15, 2010, 04:49:15 PM ---@Mike: I believe storing the main gz in the tce dir is what causes that (or any other files ending in .gz). If you can confirm that, then we should probably document that somewhere.
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I ran into that kind of problem by booting TCL in that configuration with "user=xxx". Here's what happens: the boot process creates the new account and modifies /etc/passwd. Shortly after that /usr/bin/tce-setup overwrites /etc/passwd, removing the user again -> the boot fails very mysteriously. Took me the about an hour to figure that out. Moving .../tce/tinycore.gz to .../tce/boot/tinycore.gz fixed that problem.
MikeLockmoore:
@curaga: Isolating my tce and personal data files in subdirectories cleared up the boot messages! Thanks for the suggestion. Here's what I have now:
/mnt/hdc4
/tclinux_3_0
bzImage
tinycore.gz
/data
mydata.gz
/tce
onboot.lst
/optional
(my set of extensions)
My GRUB configuration spells this out for booting.
MikeLockmoore:
Testing Alpha7 on my ASUS eeePC 1000. Works well overall and pretty similar to the older version 2.10 (most recent I had on here), but the trackpad in TC 3.0 Alpha 7 has the following issues compared to the 2.x series:
1) Very "jumpy" mouse movement at the default mouse speed, like the mouse pointer can be at locations X= 0, 7, 15... but not in-between. Fortunately, setting the mouse speed in the control panel applet to very low values (1 or 2) makes the movement finer-grained, without loosing too much speed
2) No two-finger swipe for scrolling (2.x allowed use of 2-finger swipe gestures for scrolling on this ASUS eeePC ... works like a mouse scroll wheel). Boy, I miss this!
Another minor issue: The wireless rt2860sta.ko module available in the repo sets up the wireless device as "wlan0", not "ra0" as in the module built from RALINK's source code for the TC 2.x series. Use of "wlan0" is fine, and perhaps more standard across various drivers and distributions, but be aware of it if you have scripts or other tools configured for a "ra0" device.
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Mike L.
jur:
--- Quote from: MikeLockmoore on June 17, 2010, 12:44:47 AM ---
2) No two-finger swipe for scrolling (2.x allowed use of 2-finger swipe gestures for scrolling on this ASUS eeePC ... works like a mouse scroll wheel). Boy, I miss this!
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I got this going by using a mouse boot code, IMPS. I don't have it here with me but it was discussed about 2 alpha releases ago.
edit: psmouse.proto=imps
curaga:
The touchpad thing was discussed on lkml: apparently, some pads have better mouse emulation than native touchpad mode. So forcing it to emulate a mouse (with the psmouse param above), it'll work as before.
Note that the native mode works better with the synaptics driver of Xorg. More configurability, more gestures supported etc.
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