Carolina - 1.3
Great news!
Very happy to see the new release. Had just checked last night wondering when it would be out. Will try it ASAP. Thanks, Rob
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Yeah same devx, you can either rename it or load it as it is, still works the same.p310don wrote:Downloading now.
Is the devx the same as 1.0?
I've also updated the repo with a few more app, some of which are in this release.
So far all seems good, hope you enjoy it.
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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?
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?
as a friendly hint, you can use the custom builder if you want to shrink the size make Sage`s custom Carolina special twist of your ownSage 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.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?
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.
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.Geoffrey wrote: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.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.
Try editing the isolinux.cfg to readsee if that helps, I don't have anything here at the moment to test with.Code: Select all
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
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Thanks for all those helpful tips, Geoff.
All my HW is ASP-homebuild. Swapping is the name of the game chez moi.
Xfce, Opera, SNS are my favoured selections, HW is my bag. if you want me to fix your boiler, pipework, roof, plasterwork, build a studwall, electrics, even build/renovate/upgrade/strip a PC- just call. But for SW I have to rely on gurus like your goodself, so thanks again.
All my HW is ASP-homebuild. Swapping is the name of the game chez moi.
Xfce, Opera, SNS are my favoured selections, HW is my bag. if you want me to fix your boiler, pipework, roof, plasterwork, build a studwall, electrics, even build/renovate/upgrade/strip a PC- just call. But for SW I have to rely on gurus like your goodself, so thanks again.
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Has anyone managed to get a recent version of Chromium working in Carolina? I tried to run Iron (for Lucid) in it and was told I needed a certain version of GLIBC (2.11 IIRC) before it would run, so I didn't bother.
Thanks in advance,
CP .
Thanks in advance,
CP .
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.
The version of google chrome in the repo is the last version that will run in Carolina, look in the sfs downloader of the ppmColonel Panic wrote:Has anyone managed to get a recent version of Chromium working in Carolina? I tried to run Iron (for Lucid) in it and was told I needed a certain version of GLIBC (2.11 IIRC) before it would run, so I didn't bother.
Thanks in advance,
CP .
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# ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.10.1
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
I haven't tried it, but this may work http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 391#437391
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latest Virtual Box version 4.2.3 r90405
I've built the latest Virtual Box version 4.2.3 r90405 with kernel drivers for both the PAE and Non-PAE, this should run without having to load the devx and kernel source, get virtualbox-4.3.2-carolina.sfs from the repo, use PPM sfs downloader.umair wrote:Hi Geoffrey :
I want to install Virtual Box to run Win xp in carolina. Tried different sfs files of vbox. also load the devx file of carolina, but no success. please help.
Thanks in advance.
UMAIR
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Following that thread and using what seems like the most up to date deb for 2.11, I can indeed run SlimBoat in Carolina 1.0, non-pae. Defaults to locale C but SlimBoat ( which is webkit based and requires 2.11 ) runs quite well. Haven't flogged everything else but opera, editors, thunar... all seem ok. Figured I'd have a last hurrah with 1.0 for better or for worse. More and more sites are breaking Opera 12.16 and so far they all work in SlimBoat (as does flash). Like opera, I have it installed in the boot partition and shared by all the pups in the kennel.Geoffrey wrote:The version of google chrome in the repo is the last version that will run in Carolina, look in the sfs downloader of the ppmColonel Panic wrote:Has anyone managed to get a recent version of Chromium working in Carolina? I tried to run Iron (for Lucid) in it and was told I needed a certain version of GLIBC (2.11 IIRC) before it would run, so I didn't bother.
Thanks in advance,
CP .There is a list of puppies and the glibc versions they use here http://puppylinux.org/wikka/glibcCode: Select all
# ldd --version ldd (GNU libc) 2.10.1 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
I haven't tried it, but this may work http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 391#437391
Pups currently in kennel :D Older LxPupSc and X-slacko-4.4 for my users; LxPupSc, LxPupSc64 and upupEF for me. All good pups indeed, and all running savefiles for look'n'feel only. Browsers, etc. solely from SFS.
Oh dear - FlashPlayer issues again! Loaded the repo suggested version (11-??-222) but it doesn't enable for BBC iPlayer - show stopping for Brits and Commonwealth cousins/overseas subscribers. Bound to be one version that works, but which?! It's as much Auntie's fault, but that doesn't solve the issue! Maybe we shouldn't've elected a non-IT literate PM who took the Devil's shilling, but we are where we are.
What version as worked for you in the past, there are others in the repo if you do a manual search.Sage wrote:Oh dear - FlashPlayer issues again! Loaded the repo suggested version (11-??-222) but it doesn't enable for BBC iPlayer - show stopping for Brits and Commonwealth cousins/overseas subscribers. Bound to be one version that works, but which?! It's as much Auntie's fault, but that doesn't solve the issue! Maybe we shouldn't've elected a non-IT literate PM who took the Devil's shilling, but we are where we are.
I think this is the oldest http://smokey01.com/carolina/pet_packag ... x.i386.pet
There more here http://smokey01.com/carolina/old_packages/
When you get it working can you please let us know which one worked for you, then we won't have this issue again.
Maybe someone else knows of the flash version your looking for.
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OK, Geoff, had a few moments this morning and discovered that the old favourite 10.3.183.18 still works, at least with your FF version. I think this is the preferred version recommended in Terryphi's list a year or two back?
I tried to attach a copy but it failed, perhaps on account of 5.3Mb so I will PM a copy to you. [But that didn't work either! Send me your regular email handle and I'll forward it?]
I tried to attach a copy but it failed, perhaps on account of 5.3Mb so I will PM a copy to you. [But that didn't work either! Send me your regular email handle and I'll forward it?]
@sage,
It's ok I found a copy and repackaged it, get it here http://smokey01.com/carolina/pet_packag ... 183.18.pet
or look for it in the package manager, can you please test this for me, though I'm sure it should work for you.
Cheers.
It's ok I found a copy and repackaged it, get it here http://smokey01.com/carolina/pet_packag ... 183.18.pet
or look for it in the package manager, can you please test this for me, though I'm sure it should work for you.
Cheers.
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Geoffrey (and Marv too); thanks for the advice re Chromium and Slim Browser, I'll look into it.
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A quick update; I decided to install SlimBoat instead (of Chromium) and don't regret it; it's working well (and with Flash) and is IMO easier to navigate than Chromium is.
I can recommend it to others trying to find a browser to install in Carolina. The one snag is that glibc needs to be upgraded to 2.11, for which I believe you need the two files mentioned in this thread;
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58130
which are hard to get hold of now. (I'd saved mine to my storage pendrive a year or so ago so already have them).
I can recommend it to others trying to find a browser to install in Carolina. The one snag is that glibc needs to be upgraded to 2.11, for which I believe you need the two files mentioned in this thread;
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58130
which are hard to get hold of now. (I'd saved mine to my storage pendrive a year or so ago so already have them).
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