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Ok, those of you who read my Linux is Slow thread know that I had a lot of fun getting linux to run at a decent speed. But IT WORKS!! Well minus reader rabbit in wine. But not a big deal. I'll probably try again some time.
New project, and this is going to be harder. I'll do it in DOS if I have to, but I'ld rather do it in linux. The nice thing is I CAN do it in Dos. So if all else fails, that's where I'll be going. Anyway here goes...
I've got a 486 laptop with 16 meg of ram. All I want to do with it is run a slideshow. That's it. Boot up and slideshoow starts. Nothing else. To get the pictures on the system I will be taking the hard drive out, putting it into another machine, mounting the drive and moving them over. So I don't need networking, I don't need a keyboard, mouse, anything but the slideshow.
Here's what I'm thinking. I need a very stripped down version of slackware(or maybe RedHat 7.x?), svgalib instead of X and ZGV.
Nothing is ever that simple. So here go my questions...
1. How do I get rid of all the stuff I don't need to make my linux distro lean lean lean, like as in lean enough to run on a 486 with 16 meg of ram.
2. How do I boot directly into the slideshow bypassing the login altogether?
3. What other problems am I going to run into.
Thanks in advance...
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i have used zipslack at one point or another to 'revive' antique hardware. it defn one of the better distros for running on low spec machines.
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No progress here yet. I've been too busy. But still plan to do this.
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Any progress??? I just tore apart an old laptop and started to build a wood box to build a picture frame...
Worst case, can someone reccomend linux slideshow software that I can start from a command line??
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I downloaded slackware and installed it. Anything that looked like I wouldn't need I didn't install when install the packages. However, on the developement stuff, I thought I might need to compile some stuff so I probably installed WAY more than I needed there. I wanted to make sure that I would be ale to compile anything I needed.
I did NOT install X. I did install SVGALIB. And seejpeg. seejpeg even has a slideshow option, a randomize, option etc... seemed perfect...
So... I run seejpeg and it works... sorta... I flip to a graphic screen with really weird stuff above and below... and about half an inch that shows a portion of the image. It is bizzar. If I choose a different mode... like G800x600x256 then I get text above and weird stuff below. No errors though.
Is this a problem with my SVGALIB installation or a problem with seejpeg???
Any help sorting this out would be appreciated.
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Well looks like I fixed it....sortof
I uncommented this line in /etc/vga/libsvga.config
chipset vesa
I run seejpeg with the following parameters...
seejpeg -c -F G800x600x16M -s 30 -r *
That works pretty well for a randomized slideshow with 30 seconds between showings...
Problem is that all my pictures are 1600x1200 so only 1/4 the image shows at a time. So I need to resize. You are suppose to be able to scroll to see the whole image. I can't I don't know why this is. I can scroll horizontally but not vertically. I can scroll through the image twice horizontally. Weird
Anyway, I'll keep you posted on the progress. I may reinstall slackware yet again to see if I can get rid of some packages I don't need. Unless someone can tell me how to remove packages without reinstalling.
