hello, I have problem on screen display when choosing easy setup video detection during first boot and the screen is distorted.
I think It has something to do with display resolution.
the only work around to fix my display problem is to manually set X using XF86conf...
I have tested this on 4 different computers(Pentium 1.6Ghz, Duron 1Ghz, AMD500Mhz, and P120Mhz) with same result.

Questions:
1. does easy configuration use vesa?
2. how can I change the default screen resolution and modelines used by easy install? so that when I install it to my other computer and use easy configuraion it will use 800x600 @ 16bit by default.
3. I notice that sound was not automatically installed, I there a way or script to automatically install sound like those of livecd DSL, feather, SLAX linux.
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on the side note: the reason I prefer using amigo than livecd is that I can easily backup the entire system in zip and experiment on it and if things go bad I can easily restore it w/o reconfiguration and run pristine to repeat/reset hwsetup routine when I install it to other computer.

I succesfully added the following from source:
gaim
gyach-e
xmms
gxine
firefox

I am using this on my small Internet cafe, because ms windows is always mess out due to virus and other hardware driver issue

You can try using advanced setup to set the resolution manually.
The reason that your soundcard is not configured might be that the sound drivers are not present.
Try to get install the drivers. You can also try to change the kernel.
I have changed the kernel to 2.4.26 with all the drivers, and all the avaliable packages for slackware 10 have been installed.

do you mean if change my kernel to 2.4.26 I cam install packages from slackware 10 or 10.1?

can you please post the procedure on how to change to kernel 2.4.26 with all the driver.


thanks

First, get a slackware 10 CD. Mount it and go to the slackware/l/ directory. Then, issue the following command:
installpkg *.tgz
Now, all the libraries for the 2.4.26 kernel have been installed.
Go to the kernels directory in the CD, and copy the bzimage to your /boot directory.
Now, update lilo to boot with the kernel as /boot/bzimage
Next time you boot, the kernel will be 2.4.26 with all the necessary libraries installed.
You can install all the packages in the CD using installpkg

Sorry to keep you waiting. You can pass 'secrets' to hwsetup from the boot prompt or add them to your bootloader entry.
DEPTH=16 SCREEN=800x600
for example.
I'd be interested to know what resolutions/depths you are having trouble with.

You don't need a new kernel or modules to get sound. Just have a look at /etc/sysconfig/amigo to see what the card is. Then, look for a line for the soundcard in /etc/rc./rc.modules. Uncomment the line by removing the '#' at the beginning ogf the line. Thius will cause your sound module to be loaded on each bootup.
You may need to add some packages for yound utilities depending on what you want to do.

For further 'tweaking' of Amigo's HWSETUP, see /usr/lib/amigosetup/firstrun. The XF86Config file is generated by /sbin/mkxf86config.

Hi,

I have the same problem. I'm trying to load amigo onto a toshiba 430cdt laptop. Everything works fine except the screen resolution, which is too large for the laptop screen, so I only see the topleft 800x600 of the desktop. When I change the settings with xf86config, I get a resolution that is way too small so that only 3 icons show up. Right now I'm using an external monitor plugged in the laptop, which seems to work fine.

Do you boot with lilo, loadlin or how?

I loaded with linux.bat in dos mode

Did you add the above lines to the linux.bat bootline?
That's where you can pass this info to hwsetup. Please try that and see if it works.
There are lots more 'secrets' you can pass to the kernel, init scripts and to Amigo's HWSETUP.
For the ones specific to the GUI setup open the file called mkxf86config in a text editor and look for the variables in CAPITAL LETTERS. You can specify the server, resolution, depth, etc.