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Minnesota
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wireless

#91 Post by Minnesota »

YES!
carolina-firmware-fix-0.0.1-pemasu.pet
seems to solve the issue, Frisbee now populated.

Normal network wizard also working, and populating.

Default of ext4 on and old stick caused weird reboot errors of the save file. Redid with ext2 and reboot went well.

By the way, first time you reboot, and save file does not exits, the procedure runs, I think creates the directory, but does not actually reboot. It took a second reboot command to cause the save file to be created and rebooted. This might be normal for this puppy? I usually do not create savefiles as I run off the CD.

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#92 Post by pemasu »

If the firmware.dep is not inside the iso, the live cd usage with firmware loading need will suffer. It will need the savefile creation which is not habit for those livecd users.

elroy

#93 Post by elroy »

pemasu wrote:If the firmware.dep is not inside the iso, the live cd usage with firmware loading need will suffer. It will need the savefile creation which is not habit for those livecd users.
It will be included in the next ISO. Thanks pemasu.

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Pete22
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Frisbee

#94 Post by Pete22 »

Frisbee connected very quickly. Very Good.

Thanks to all the Carolina folks, it worked!

Now I can check out some other stuff. :)

Pete

P.S. My sound is working fine.

GoneSouth
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defaultspreadsheet bug

#95 Post by GoneSouth »

Hi Guys
The /usr/local/bin/defaultspreadsheet file links to sdcalc should be scalc

defaultwordprocessor has the same problem

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Re: defaultspreadsheet bug

#96 Post by Pete22 »

[quote="GoneSouth"]Hi Guys
The /usr/local/bin/defaultspreadsheet file links to sdcalc should be scalc...

Good Catch GoonSouth!

Just to be extra clear
/usr/local/bin/defaultwordprocessor file links to sdwriter should be swriter

Pete

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Re: wireless

#97 Post by Pete22 »

Minnesota wrote:YES!
Default of ext4 on and old stick caused weird reboot errors of the save file. Redid with ext2 and reboot went well.
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Just for the record my hard drive is ext4. I did a fugal install and all is well at the moment.

Good to know that Carolina works with ext2 on a usb.

Pete

GoneSouth
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defaultwordprocessor

#98 Post by GoneSouth »

yes Pete22

Also did anyone think of including the lightning plugin for thunderbird

yerc1
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Re: Carolina

#99 Post by yerc1 »

Your implementation of the shutdown dialogue is excellent! I hope you keep it that way and not move to PupShutdown, which I admit to be better than the standard way in Puppy but is way too crowded for me. Likewise, I'm glad that you kept Control Panel instead of PupControl. PupControl is good but your Control Panel is better, for me.

While trying to add Trash to the panel, i found that it showed as a thin line and Trash could not be launched from there.

Thanks for Carolina.
It's my puppy of choice at the moment.

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xfce Panel

#100 Post by Pete22 »

Each page of Xfce Panel preferences have these black boxes. Are they supposed to look like this?

Pete
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Re: Carolina

#101 Post by Geoffrey »

yerc1 wrote:Your implementation of the shutdown dialogue is excellent! I hope you keep it that way and not move to PupShutdown, which I admit to be better than the standard way in Puppy but is way too crowded for me. Likewise, I'm glad that you kept Control Panel instead of PupControl. PupControl is good but your Control Panel is better, for me.

While trying to add Trash to the panel, i found that it showed as a thin line and Trash could not be launched from there.

Thanks for Carolina.
It's my puppy of choice at the moment.
Thanks for the bug catching guy's.

The shutdown dialogue will be staying, with the one in Saluki I had pressed the wrong button a number of times, this way there is less chance of doing that.

There are no plans to add PupShutdown or PupControl, yes radky has done a great job with these, but the Xfce Contol Panel is adequate.

I'll start hunting down the problem with the trash panel plugin.

@pemasu ,

Thank you again for your assistance, it definitely made the task easier.
Pete22 wrote:Each page of Xfce Panel preferences have these black boxes. Are they supposed to look like this?

Pete
I see your using hicolor what is the style in Appearance and Window Manager, I can't reproduce what you show, the closest I can get is using Gflat-graphite, yes it does look a little dark.

EDIT: I'm guessing it's a incompatible gtk style for the panel, it does the same in Saluki.
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elroy

Re: Carolina testing

#102 Post by elroy »

peebee wrote:-I installed the kernel-source and devx sfs's onto a pfix=ram frugal install (no savefile) to compile and got 2 strange loop4 and loop5 devices on the desktop....
Geoffrey is testing a new version of the pup-volume-monitor right now. The new version appears to have corrected that behavior. If it proves stable, it will be used in Carolina-002.

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#103 Post by linux »

Please keep up the good work on Carolina. It looks great and works well on both my laptop and desktop.

I can also confirm that the carolina-firmware-fix-0.0.1-pemasu.pet has solved the wireless connection problem. Now I just need to get the audio working ....

Thanks to everyone involved

elroy

#104 Post by elroy »

linux wrote:Now I just need to get the audio working ....
Try the firmware update pet on the first post of this thread. It includes the missing firmware for audio and may resolve your sound issues.
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Re: Carolina

#105 Post by elroy »

yerc1 wrote:While trying to add Trash to the panel, i found that it showed as a thin line and Trash could not be launched from there.
This has been fixed in patch-004. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

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#106 Post by linux »

I will give that a try. Thanks for your help

I think the Sigmatel AC97 Audio drivers are needed for my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop

elroy

trash panel applet

#107 Post by elroy »

Well, I've found a new bug with the trash panel applet. After installing patch-004, while you can add the plugin to the panel, and it does function correctly, upon rebooting (with savefile), it does not reappear. It isn't in the panel after reboot.

So until we get that sorted out, you may want to avoid using this particular panel plugin unless you want to have to add it after every reboot.

elroy

#108 Post by elroy »

Please review the first post on this thread as it has been heavily edited to include some pertinent information, from bug fixes and wallpaper, to plans Geoffrey and I are discussing for the future.

elroy

lightning plugin

#109 Post by elroy »

GoneSouth wrote:Also did anyone think of including the lightning plugin for thunderbird
Plugins are a personal preference kind of thing thing. This plugin is easy to install within Thunderbird. While this plugin may be valuable to many, our ISO is large enough without adding extras such as this.

elroy

Re: xfce Panel

#110 Post by elroy »

Pete22 wrote:...have these black boxes. Are they supposed to look like this?
Unfortunately, yes. Geoffrey and i have identified the following themes as problematic, either due to the "black box" effect, or because of disappearing right-click menu issues. The following themes will not be available on Carolina-002:

Clearlooks Revamp
TerraNova-Aquarius
TerraNova-Candy
TerraNova-Clarius
Gflat-grahpite
Gflat-quicksilver

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