Sage wrote:A few problems, Geoff:
None of the well rehearsed expedients fixed my nV MX440 issues; presently abandoned for a Radeon card.
Several of the usual suspects of USB wireless dongles failed. Par for the course - will investigate later as have other working ones.
Default connection utility seems to be Frisbee - don't like it, never found it helpful or effective. SNS works for me (if anything works!).
Otherwise going well; fast and comprehensive.
Scope for size reduction?
What ever worked for you in the previous version should also work with this one, there as been no updates to hardware compatibility, only software updates and a few added features.
Frisbee works out of the box with all the computers I've tried Carolina on, the hardware mustn't be found if it's not working for you.
Carolina isn't for everyone's hardware, I too have had problems with hardware issues with certain laptops.
Geoffrey wrote:Pete22 wrote:I tried installing Carolina ..7 on my friends * Gateway nv78 laptop several weeks
ago. . However the screen goes black after it starts to boot up.. I am wondering if
Carolina 1 would work.
Congratulation on a full Carolina release.
Pete, I had a Acer emachine with the same problem, it uses the Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller, the problem being the backlight is turned off.
Try editing the isolinux.cfg to read
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default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 50
F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg
F3 help2.msg
label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash vga=0x311 acpi_osi=Linux
see if that helps, I don't have anything here at the moment to test with.
If anyone has any tips that overcome hardware compatibly problems, please post them here, I will create a list of confirmed fixes or workaround and put a link to them in the first post of this thread.
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