Carolina - 1.3

[edoc]

Found it ...

Press and hold down the Windows button and the Power button, when the machine starts, press F2. This will display the BIOS setup.

Carolina is trying to boot ...

Oooooh ... looks promising ...

It works!

Connected to router & internet & Firefox works ... neat!

It does seem to have some trouble handling hulu.com streaming video - even set to lowest quality it paints the screen visibly & there is no audio - I tried turning up Speaker & Headphone as well Master in the audio mixer.

Now when I mouse-over the taskbar sound control there's a pop-up message "No valid device and/or element"

Not sure how to proceed ... hmmm .... seems it's a Realtek chipset?

Never mind - found the card setting in audio mixer.

Firefox said Shockwave Flash was too old as well - updated but no impact on solving the slow screen painting problem ... suggestions, please?

[edoc]

Acer Iconia W500P Video Chipset is: AMD Radeon HD 6290

Our son suggested I try a smaller browser to help with the streaming video/screen-painting delay problem.

Will a privacy-protecting browser like Iron or Chromium work in Carolina 1.3?

Is there one that best features small/efficient, fast, & privacy-respecting?

Just tried QupZilla - it seems to handle streaming video better than Firefox but still jittery ...

[edoc]

Does Carolina 1.3 require both adrv and zdrv be in the directory with the sfs, initrd, & linuz files?

[Geoffrey]

Does Carolina 1.3 require both adrv and zdrv be in the directory with the sfs, initrd, & linuz files?

Yes, else you won't have any applications or drivers, though you can leave adrive out and add apps from the repo like any other pup if you wish.

Acer Iconia W500P Video Chipset is: AMD Radeon HD 6290

I haven't had much luck with drivers for AMD.

Will a privacy-protecting browser like Iron or Chromium work in Carolina 1.3?

No, well not anything new, there is an old Google-chrome in the repo sfs pacakages but it's really to old to be of much use.

battleshooter will be releasing a souped-up version soon, that may play better with your hardware and support newer applications.

[battleshooter]

Hardly Ever is getting to be a pretty long time in puppyland I'll look forward to your kernelized 1.3 and feed it to the Bay Trail box in the dungeon and see if it burps. I'd (and the Bay Trail beastie) love to see a newer Xorg/Mesa but it might be a can of worms.

Thanks mate You're certainly right about Xorg/Mesa though, been wrestling with that for a month compiling and recompiling, thinking there was something wrong with the build, only to find there was no issue - I was just missing a firmware bin file for my test computer!

Firefox said Shockwave Flash was too old as well - updated but no impact on solving the slow screen painting problem ... suggestions, please?

Acer Iconia W500P Video Chipset is: AMD Radeon HD 6290

Ah yes, my sister has a laptop like yours, the processor isn't all that great, so the GPU is relied upon heavily. Without the proper drivers though, Carollina will not use it and instead will use the processor for graphics, slowing the system down.

I don't recall it being tricky to install AMD drivers, I think your graphics card uses this installer, but check the release notes to be sure.

If not that, Geoff, does Carolina come with the free Radeon driver? It works on my kernel builds with an Ubuntu firmware bin file, but I don't know how it's setup with the original Carolina.

By the way Edoc. for the old Flash error, Geoffrey uploaded an upgrade to the repo, or is Shockwave separate from normal flash?

[battleshooter]

battleshooter will be releasing a souped-up version soon, that may play better with your hardware and support newer applications.

I might release today, see how it goes. I'm a bit undecided though. Not going to include Xorg I think, though I might release it as an upgrade pet after I figure out why Xorg keeps reverting to the depreciated keyboard and mouse drivers instead of evdev. I wonder if I need to upgrade XorgWizard?

[edoc]

The ssl certificates PET solved the problem on my Samsung NB30 Netbook, thanks!

I just realized that I had installed adrv & zdrv on my wife's laptop but had forgotten adrv on my Netbook. Lots more goodies to play with there now!

I need to sort out the boot on my Acer Iconia W500P Tablet so that I can save stuff - right now it won't let me save the PET for some reason - I'm booting from a USB stick.

I'm still waiting for the guy who triple-booted (MS version of windows, Linux, & Android) via BERG using a SD card - I need to know the code he used so I'm not thrashing around aimlessly guessing.

[edoc]

By the way Edoc. for the old Flash error, Geoffrey uploaded an upgrade to the repo, or is Shockwave separate from normal flash?

I can see the 12Dec2014 Flash update flashplayer-11.2.202.425 in the list but nowhere in the system to be downloaded:

Not via PPM (I even tried ALL).

Not in the smokey01.com directories.

What am I missing, please?

[edoc]

Acer Iconia W500P Video Chipset is: AMD Radeon HD 6290

I don't recall it being tricky to install AMD drivers, I think your graphics card uses this installer, but check the release notes to be sure.

If not that, Geoff, does Carolina come with the free Radeon driver? It works on my kernel builds with an Ubuntu firmware bin file, but I don't know how it's setup with the original Carolina.

According to the Product Details here:
http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Iconia-W500P ... B00B10C4VG
My Acer Iconia W500P uses a ATI Radeon HD6250 Graphics Controller

I looked at the AMD driver site but remain uncertain how to proceed.

According to this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... 175415441/

Some setting called "-current" may be needed.

WDYT?

[Geoffrey]

I can see the 12Dec2014 Flash update flashplayer-11.2.202.425 in the list but nowhere in the system to be downloaded:

Not via PPM (I even tried ALL).

Not in the smokey01.com directories.

What am I missing, please?

It's in the repo via the PPM, just search for "flash"

[edoc]

AutoUpdate was on ... had I noticed it I likely would have instinctively toggled it off.

Odd that a search for "flash" finds it but it was not showing up under Internet or in the "All" listing.

Anyhow, being loaded now ...

Thanks!

[sunsnoel]

How do you change windows managers in Carolina ?
I've tried many time and when i go to log back it, it doesn't work.
Does something need to be deleted?

[battleshooter]

I just realized that I had installed adrv & zdrv on my wife's laptop but had forgotten adrv on my Netbook. Lots more goodies to play with there now!

Hah, I like that. You were impressed with Carolina without even seeing the full version with all the apps!

I need to sort out the boot on my Acer Iconia W500P Tablet so that I can save stuff - right now it won't let me save the PET for some reason

I can see the 12Dec2014 Flash update flashplayer-11.2.202.425 in the list but nowhere in the system to be downloaded:

Not via PPM (I even tried ALL).

You seem to be getting some weird errors, did the md5sum checkout? Or have I been away from the Puplet scene for such a long time that Carolina works completely different from the usual?

I looked at the AMD driver site but remain uncertain how to proceed.

I'm not sure what "-current" is either. I think it may be a Slackware downloading option? I'm just shooting arrows in the dark.

I can describe the usual way I install drivers from AMD.

1. Download and load devx and kernel headers.

2. Download, extract, and run the AMD drivers for the HD 6250:

3. When it's finished, exit to prompt and run:

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aticonfig --initial

4. Get back to the desktop:

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xwin

Hopefully you're back in and

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glxinfo | grep direct

tells you "yes"

Let me know if it doesn't work, as it can also be installed a different way, but this is the easier method.

[battleshooter]

How do you change windows managers in Carolina ?
I've tried many time and when i go to log back it, it doesn't work.
Does something need to be deleted?

What's the window manager you're trying?

Carolina uses a simpler /root/.xintrc that doesn't take in to account other WMs besides XFCE, so you may have to edit that accordingly.

[Geoffrey]

How do you change windows managers in Carolina ?
I've tried many time and when i go to log back it, it doesn't work.
Does something need to be deleted?

What's the window manager you're trying?

Carolina uses a simpler /root/.xintrc that doesn't take in to account other WMs besides XFCE, so you may have to edit that accordingly.

There is no pinboard for a desktop, there is a jwm in the repo but that's a remnant from when Saluki was active, it never made it into the build, jemimah was adamant that Saluki was to be XFCE and likewise Carolina is XFCE only.

[edoc]

I loaded Carolina 1.3 on a previously stable Acer Aspire 5535 laptop and now it's overheating - but only on AC power, not on battery power (it just runs down & crashes as the battery is old).

This model has an overheating history so it's sensitive to settings - I'm fine with the fan running continuously - and I have disassembled and cleaned it to eliminate that source + it sits on a good quality laptop cooler .

I read these re. overheating & power management:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2207627

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Radeo ... _and_Later

Anything there offer hints as to what I can try in Carolina 1.3 please?

Thanks!

[edoc]

I was just racing the overheating time-out on our old Acer Aspire 5535 laptop and went to set up a symlink in Seamonkey to the default email/web folder and got a surprise.

I haven't done that for quite a while, never in Carolina, so I was a little puzzled as to the means to handle a symlink.

I did sort it & discovered that profiles.ini needs the full naming string "link-to-xxxxxx.default" rather than just "xxxxxxx.default"

Now if only I can keep the beast from overheating long enough for her to be able ti use it ... tried turning off ACPI ... no joy.

[mistfire]

Does samba and ftp access in thunar worked in this carolina?
Does Carolina 1.3 works on Intel GMA 3600 without getting a black screen on bootup?

[ally]

@edoc

I had a similar problem a while back with my son's laptop - turned out it was a conflict with dual resolution monitor (I'm sure there is a better term....), had to turn it off in bios and problem solved

may be worth a look

[Terry H]

Problem when attempting to set Desktop Wallpaper to 'Image List'.

I'm not sure what is supposed to happen with this option. The Radio Button is only highlighted without the button actually being selected. The desktop seems to freeze for 30 seconds or so, followed by choppy cursor movement. Eventually the window closes and correct cursor function returns.

I just noticed this using Carolina Vanguard, so checked on Carolina 1.3 and the same issue occurred. I am using Dell D620 laptop Core Duo 2.16 GHz, with Intel graphics.

The 'None' option works correctly.