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Topic: can anyone paste a working lilo.conf for dsl??, I have to install lilo manually

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esplinter

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Posted: Mar. 20 2007,11:53

yeeeeeeeeeeah finally I have my lovely libretto with dsl booting from hd¡¡¡ many thanks curaga. that was just what I needed

I have just booted it for first time and the only strange thing is that now I have no icons on desktop. In order to have the icons I have to go to the menu Desktop >> full enhaced Desktop ¿is there any way so that it boots by default with full enhanced desktop??

I have put on menu.lst the options nofirewire and noscsi ¿¿do you think there is any other option I should use with a toshiba libretto??

many many thx curaga. Im really happy

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Posted: Mar. 20 2007,14:16

About the icons: someone else has also had that problem, there a png file was corrupt. Fire up Aterm and type
xtdesk
If there are errors about some icons, delete them. There is also some hidden config file in /home/dsl with a line ICONS=1.... if it's ICONS=0 then there are no icons

Boot codes: Try add these
dma nousb nomce
dma speeds up the hard drive, your lappy doesn't have USB, and MCE is disabled automatically on P1's, but if you disable it here too, boot will speed up a half second ;)

BTW, you giving me thanx feels just awesome.. Usually people just hate me :;):

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curaga

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Posted: Mar. 20 2007,14:27

Also edit /home/dsl/.xinitrc
by adding a # in front of these lines:
wmswallow docked.lua ....something...... so this becomes
#wmswallow docked.lua ....something

And the torsmo line too. This stops the mount app (which BTW doesn't work for cd's and floppies in 3.2) and the system monitor (torsmo) in the right side of the screen from starting, speeding boot even more..

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esplinter

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Posted: Mar. 20 2007,15:54

thanks again man

finally I have this line on /boot/grub/menu.lst

title DSL (hd)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 dma vga=807 nofirewire noscsi nousb nomce

and it boots quite fast.

I used vga=807 (807 is 16bits and 808 is 24bits) because I think it works a little bit faster using 16bits, but really I´m not totally sure if 807 is better.

I havent edited the file .xinitrc because I like tormsmo and I use the docker to access dmix. When dsl boots it just takes 12mb of ram so I think I wont save too much ram if I deactivate them.

I had to download and compile tormsmo 0.18 so that the battery meter works. I just installed gcc and libraries and compiled it. then I just had to edit this line in /home/dsl/.tormsmorc (hope it be usefull for anyone)

Battery: $color ${battery MBAT}

about the desktop icons....I get no error when running xtdesk so I dont know wich one I should delete but really I dont care too much about this. go to desktop >> full enhaced desktop after the X system boots is just one second.

I finally have my dsl working great. now I have a long aftenoon to test it :laugh:

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