Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Geoffrey]

[inoxidabile]

Hi everybody!
First of all, please accept my wide compliments, Carolina is very good, a great balance of simplicity and powerful features
Let me also say that it seems more than a "beta" as declared!

I would have some question:
- When I launch some applications requiring some time to start, nothing happen and there are no popup to advice that something is running and have to wait some seconds.
- With Firefox, sometimes happens this: if I go to a webpage and I stop the loading (e.g. exit from browser), then at re-opening Firefox it seems not more able to connect to anything... unless I act on panel icon in order to disconnect from eth0 and restart connection.
It's annoying, it's like "something keeps in mind" that there is a connection to establish
- The icons on desktop have a poor contrast/visibility even choosing different wallpaper. I didn't find a solution, does anyone has a suggestion?
- I would like to try wbar and I found these instructions
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/WbarInstall
Are they valid also for Carolina?

Many Thanks in advance for any info or suggestion!

[rg66]

[Geoffrey]

I'm back, went to see my brother Mark who passed away from cancer on the 10th, the forum and puppy seemed unimportant to me for the last few weeks, but life go's on and being here is a good distraction from the misery that happens in the world.

[inoxidabile]

Many thanks to Geoffrey and rg66!
With Your suggestions now the look is better... and I must take practice about setups of xfce ...
(I still have some trouble with setup of wbar, but this is an other question I'm looking for the gui tool for this )

Coming to the others points of my post, unfortunately, I can confirm the mentioned behavior
When for any reason a page doesn't finish the load, at restart it seems that the connection becomes not active and Firefox try again to load that web page.
I'm not able to say if it's due to Firefox or/and network management but looking on web I have seen that I'm not the only one.
Following some suggestions, I found the solution (maybe... ):

1) Disable frisbee and use sns (SimpleNetworkSetup) and ckeck ok as default tool; maybe also Dougal Wizard but not frisbee

2) Setups about Firefox
- Go to -> preferences-network-advanced settings and use system proxy settings or no proxy (if possible...)
- Type about:config in the address bar and press the "Enter" key. When you see a warning, click I'll be careful, I promise! button.
- Then, in the Filter bar, type network.http.max-connections. Right click the preference network.http.max-connections and choose Modify, change the value to 30 or 48.
- Then, search for browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash Double click on true to toggle it to false.
- Now, search for browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes and set it to 0
Finally, exit the page and restart Firefox.

In my feel these are more workarounds than true solutions but I hope the above could be useful for something else , however

[rg66]

@ inoxidabile

Strange, I'm not having any firefox issues that are not related to my ISP. As in they suck and my internet just stops working.

There is a wbar gui here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52381

[inoxidabile]

@ rg66: many thanks for the link about wget

About ISP... It was one of the hypotesis I did.

In order to be sure, I kept connected two pc in two port of the same modem-router and starting the same request for the same page and, of course, same Firefox setup.
On the first there was Carolina Puppy and on the other Ubuntu 10.04 and the considered webpage takes always about 5 seconds to load.
Starting the request and closing Firefox after the first 2 seconds, the pc with Ubuntu restart with the home page but the pc having Carolina seems that it's trying to load the previous page, even if I close and restart Firefox again, also waiting some time.
This happens regardless the test is on both pc in the same time or one at time.
I'm not able to say if this "lock" of Firefox is due to itself or loosing of connection or whatsoever but, prior to modifications in my previous post, the only way I had to use again Firefox was to restart the network manager (then a new auto dhcp).

Of course maybe there could be possible also something related to hw and then I'm going to perform other tests, checking with an other puppy version, for instance, and also to verify if the efficacy of my variation is still good

[rg66]

@ inoxidabile

What version of firefox are you using? Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling? Mine breaks sometimes but a reinstall sorts it out.

[inoxidabile]

@rg66

I used the Firefox version included in the last iso of Carolina 0.0.5 .
So, You are saying that in this way is a sort of cleaning due to reinstall or it's because in repo there is a more recent and better Firefox issue?
However it's a test that I have to do, thanks for suggestion.
I also thought to try with a different browser, but after a quick look I have see only Opera in repos ... isn't there also Chrome or maybe I'm blind?

Ops... I forgot to say "a detail"
I've seen a similiar behavior in an other Puppy derivative... I'm not absolutely sure, because I did a lot of check in last days, but it was a recent one (maybe it was LxPup + frisbee).

[linux]

Geoffrey

Sorry to hear about your brother

Thanks for your work on this project

[jakfish]

Geoffrey, I was just started experimenting w/ Saluki which of course brought me to Carolina, and I saw your post about your brother's death.

It's very saddening and you have all my condolences,
Jake

[inoxidabile]

I would add my condolences in thi sad moment for Geoffrey.

inoxidabile

[Geoffrey]

Thanks linux, jakfish and inoxidabile, appreciated

I've repackaged cartoon_fighter-1.1, it now works in Carolina and can be found in the PPM under SFS Downloader

This should work in Saluki also, get it directly HERE, size 58meg

[oldyeller]

Hi Geoffrey,

I was going through the Derivatives and checking on some puppies when i thought about Carolina and came to check to see what is new and going on here.

I to am very sorry to hear about your brother. Take care. Weill be praying for you.

[inoxidabile]

Hi everybody !

I installed Carolina - frugal mode, on a Foxconn nt330i and as first check I used a common crt 1024x768 res. Everything was fine and it becomes better after Nvidia installation as specified in tutorial.
But I connected the pc to a tv with hdmi and then I'm not able to find the way to set a right resolution.

It automatically detects its native res is 1920x1080 and the panel results "out of screen" and also the windows have one third not accessible ... I tried also a different resolution 1280x720 but the panel still remains one half out and the windows are not correct in size.

I have had a look on web and my fear is that this problem has no solution...
Have I any chance? Should I only vga/dvi connection?
Many many thanks in advance!