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starhawk · Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 14:04 Post subject:

@elroy:

DLing now.

Never heard of the Carolina dog -- skimmed the Wiki article you linked, rather educational indeed!

I'll keep you posted on how it works out.

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 380

puppyluvr · Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 15:56 Post subject:

Hello,
An adrive and a zdrive.. Interesting..

First impression is good. Booted up fairly quickly, correctly configured my vid card (gma45), my sound card, and barked.. Nailed the 1366x768 (instead of 1360 which some get wrong), and GL worked OOTB..

As with most 3 series kernels, I had wireless problems..
This is not a Carolina issue, but a kernel issue..
If my wireless card (RT5390) isnt physically turned on during boot, before the kernel is loaded, it WILL NOT turn on.
So, I rebooted accordingly, and it remained on..
It was seen as wlan0 under the pci2800 driver, as with Precise and Lupu Pups.
However, it failed as such:

Strangely, every post concerning this error and my card, pertain to Gentoo!
It is a firmware issue, and could be easily corrected I believe, I`ll get back on that..
Forgot to try ndiswrapper Embarassed

which works well for this card.
When I shut down, and attempted to make a savefile, I got:
"dev/ not found"
Could be a fluke, I`ll retry that again as well and get back, hopefully from Carolina itself....

yr1945 · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 208

cannot use "Carolina Custom Builder" because many required files are not in Carolina repository...

i might use Carolina without Adrive and just add a few required apps via .pets and/or Puppy Package Manager"...

also... might keep the Adrive if i could delete certain apps with "Remove Builtin Packages",.. eg, LibreOffice and Thunderbird

anyway... excellent os... hope you will continue to maintain it...

ps: currently using Saluki-023 with "custom" Adrive...

Roger Hunter · Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 218

Beautiful puppy, best I've seen lately.

I particularly like the single click option.

Problems so far, no floppy and grub4dos only.

I have several puppies installed on my P4 but Win XP as my main OS. I want it to boot to XP without menu so puppies are booted by floppy.

I tried adding Caroline to the grub menu but it won't work.

Roger

starhawk · Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 19:30 Post subject:

Very nice splash screen! Kinda retro with the monochrome amber sorta look there. I have to say I like it Very Happy

Alas, this Thinkpad is a very nice Pentium M system and PAE doesn't like Pentium M CPUs. So I will try it (later) on another box -- the very nice Compaq (now there's two words that don't really go together!) desktop I have with 2gb RAM and an AM2 Athlon64 CPU.

...in the meantime, you get a vote from me for a non-PAE version to be made available. I don't need PAE anyways, there's exactly one system in my entire house with more than 3gb RAM and it's not likely to run Puppy any time soon as it's my mother's.

starhawk · Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 23:21 Post subject:

Posting from within Carolina.

Not bad. A couple points...

(1) I suspect your compilation of the ath5k driver is a little bit funky. I haven't had connectivity this bad in quite some time Wink

either that, or it goes to sleep almost instantly. At least it keeps trying to reconnect! (Persistence is a virtue here.) FWIW, it might be a failing card. I pulled this one from spares.

(2) my volume is turned up all the way and it's barely audible. Could be the cheap dang eMachines speakers I have plugged in, which are not really amplified -- or at least do not require a separate power lead -- but I'm not sure. FATSlacko has the same problem.

(3) pmount takes an awful long time to pull up and does not recognize the media card reader (FATSlacko is much better here -- it is quite snappy and does recognize the reader).

(4) the menu is completely different from nearly every other Puppy I've used. Menu changes = much user frustration.

That said, other than those four things, and the ginormous size, it's pretty good stuff. I like it! On the graphics end of things, I love the wallpaper selection. It's not extensive, but it's pretty good for Puppy. The transparent tray is a cool thing as well. That's a new one for me Smile

Overall: 8.5/10 for reasons above. -2 points for the four issues, -0.5 point for the size, +1 point for the wallpaper and the cool transparent tray.

EDIT: one other thing... a choice of browsers would have been nice. Perhaps the ever-present Browser-Installer? Firefox is really slow compared to Chrome (my current favorite).

tlchost · Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 23:24 Post subject:

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 380

Here's a patch for the custom-builder - patch-001.tar.gz
There's a README.txt file inside that explains what to do.
Afterwards, you'll need to open the package manager and refresh the repo lists.

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 380

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elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 380

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

Where do I find the correct kernel source SFS file for use with the devx sfs file for compiling drivers etc?
I am currently downloading the ISO and the devx SFS file and want to make sure I have everything.
That reminds me that I still have to download the patches file also.

Never mind. Embarassed

I found it under the SFS directory on the site.

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2345 Location: Queensland

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2345 Location: Queensland

I noticed that the on screen volume notification was missing, download volume-notification.tar.gz extract and copy xfce4-volumed to /root/Startup,
then either right-click Execute or restartx to activate it, then it shows while adjusting the volume level, there is a xfce4-volumed.txt explaining what to do included.

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2681 Location: South Australia

Is there a default PDF reader?