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AMD Geode driver
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DSL on GNOME Boxes
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Installation Crashing |
Posted by: Plunkyy - 09-22-2025, 11:26 PM - Forum: Help Section
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I'm trying to install Damn Small Linux on a Thinkpad 600X with a 650Mhz speed-step Pentium 3 processor. I'm booting off a cd-rom, and I've tried to install it about 8-10 times now. The first or second time, I managed to get all the way through the installer, but it said that it failed to install grub. I just rebooted and tried it again in hopes it would fix itself the next time (with default settings). This obviously didn't work.
The past few installs I've tried have all crashed somewhere in the 19-23% range, with the most recent step being "Copying new system" in the live log. I've let the installer verify the installation media most times, and never had an error. So I don't think that my CD-ROM drive is faulty, but I could be wrong. I will also note that as of writing this, the most recent crash was at 23%, which I left the live install on after it crashed, and a few minutes later my 600X graphics went haywire for a minute or so. After that, it went to a black screen (still on!) and then rebooted into the live environment by itself! The uptime was still counting after this as well so the machine never actually rebooted...
Anyways, I'm just looking to at least narrow down the problem here. I'm (trying) to install to a 64GB Yansen IDE SSD which is almost certainly just a pre-assembled msata to ide converter. Other than the SSD and the CD-ROM, I'm not really sure what the issue could be. I don't really understand why it could go through the entire installation the first time, but now it can't. I also don't understand why the graphics glitches out when I shut the laptop down, or when it happened in the previous paragraph on its own. It has a Neomagic MagicGraph256ZX GPU with 4mb of VRAM. The live installer responds well so the graphics is definitely supported in the kernel. I dunno.
Appreciate any suggestions 
EDIT: I managed to pass the 19-23% crash range by booting with failsafe graphics. I got back up to the point where grub installation fails. Then, I entered the rbind commands for /proc, /sys, etc. so that I could use lsblk in chroot of /mnt/antiX. This let me chroot in and manually run grub-install and update-grub commands. Then, I rebooted and got the following error:
"fsck.ext4: error while loading shared libraries: libuuid.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. fsck exited with status code 127". It's a little hard for me to debug exactly what's wrong because I'm not sure what exactly happened during the automated installation process.
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DSL SCREEN SIZE on GNOME Boxes |
Posted by: wisdomlight - 09-03-2025, 02:22 PM - Forum: Help Section
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DSL running on GNOME Boxes(Fedora 40)
But, the screen size is fixed and it is small. like 643x402
Is there a way to increase DSL screen size in Boxes?
Thank you
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DSL on GNOME Boxes |
Posted by: wisdomlight - 08-16-2025, 09:46 PM - Forum: Help Section
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Any advice on how to install dsl.2024.rc7.lz4.iso on GNOME Boxes?
When statring Boxes it says OS is not found, but I used Debian testing.
DSL started - but occupied small square of the screen.
Then when installing it (with the password demo) nothing happens.
So, any advice is appreciated
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AMD Geode driver |
Posted by: anewangelfades - 06-20-2025, 12:27 PM - Forum: User Feedback
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Hello, and congratulation for this wonderful new version of DSL!
I have just a little request: antiX and its derivatives like this one are (to the best of my knowledge) the only distros who still work on non PAE systems.
I have two netbooks running on an AMD Geode LX-800 CPU, the sam CPU on which the famous OLPC was based on.
I think that it would be really great if they worked "out of the box".
The problem is that the Geode driver in the repositories is an old version which doesn't work with 5.x or 6.x kernels, but just with 4.x kernels, and booting on such machines is incredibly hard, since also a cli boot is really hard to obtain.
Everything is duly explained here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driv...deo-geode/
but basically, for everything to work properly, some particular grub options are needed, as well as the latest 2.18.1 driver.
Do you think it's possible to integrate this in the ISO? I see that in the past xserver-xorg-video-intel was included to support native resolution on some EEE PCs and other machines, and I believe that giving a new life to hardware such as OLPC XO-1 and similar low-budget PCs would be really important.
Thank you in advance!
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DSL is back? Question |
Posted by: Carp000 - 06-17-2025, 10:55 PM - Forum: Help Section
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Hey DSL community, I've recently looked at the DSL page @ Distrowatch.org I like to go on there once in awhile to see what is new since i love to tinker. I've used DSL before the first versions back in 2010 or so I believe and i think DSL stopped uploading updates in 2008 I believe correct me if I'm wrong. So the project was already abandoned when i tried it but I didn't think it was bad so when i seen you guys are bringing the project back i instantly want to give it a go but I have a question before I try and boot, does DSL support safe boot out of the box? or am I going to have to configure it? I want to install it on a old laptop I have its one of my tinker laptops but I'd love to tinker around with it break it/fix it repeat. Maybe I'll come across some bugs that need to be fixed if so ill come back and let you fellas know.
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