slitaz as a work in progress
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 12:58 pm
There is a very interesting URL associated with the slitaz Linux project:
<http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:poulsbo>
It claims to be a guide to making slitaz4 gma500 capable using the fbdev_drv.so trick. I have yet to get it to work, but you may find it interesting. Since slitaz4 is a year old, the newer rolling-slitaz with a 3.2.4 kernel also recommends itself. I was able to get it to start up using a usb stick, and it refused to install because it wanted the usb stick to be ntfs rather than vfat. I was able to determine that it comes with its own fbdev_drv.so, and it requires "vga=792" on the command line for fbdev to be used initially.
Again, this is work in progress. Maybe one of the people here can get onto the slitaz forum and use their influence. Slitaz has the potential to be extremely light in memory usage and as fast as you can hope to get.
<http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:poulsbo>
It claims to be a guide to making slitaz4 gma500 capable using the fbdev_drv.so trick. I have yet to get it to work, but you may find it interesting. Since slitaz4 is a year old, the newer rolling-slitaz with a 3.2.4 kernel also recommends itself. I was able to get it to start up using a usb stick, and it refused to install because it wanted the usb stick to be ntfs rather than vfat. I was able to determine that it comes with its own fbdev_drv.so, and it requires "vga=792" on the command line for fbdev to be used initially.
Again, this is work in progress. Maybe one of the people here can get onto the slitaz forum and use their influence. Slitaz has the potential to be extremely light in memory usage and as fast as you can hope to get.