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Re: xfce4-weather-plugin-0.8.3

#1001 Post by Geoffrey »

sheldonisaac wrote:
Geoffrey wrote:I would appreciate if a few people could test this for me,
xfce4-weather-plugin-0.8.3.pet
I've never before used a panel plug-in.
This is 'lina-lite-005

There's now a circle at the right end of the task bar, and it says No data available.

Thanks,
Sheldon
Hi Sheldon,

You need to right click that circle at the right end of the task bar, select properties and it should scan for you location, if it shows the wrong town/city then click change and type in your town/city or closest airport/aerodrome , it should find it.
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#1002 Post by Geoffrey »

I've tested the weather plugin on my wife's laptop, all is fine, this has fixed the problem.

Shouldn't be to long now for the release of Carolina 1.1 with bug fixes, updated apps and a few more features, hopefully the ISO won't be much larger than the previous.
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#1003 Post by Geoffrey »

Carolina 1.1 is released, for details see the first post.

This release is around 40mb larger due to software updates and added features.
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#1004 Post by Sage »

Great work, thanks.
Only problem : d/l doesn't!
Don't stop now, time for a cuppa, then over to X-Slacko....
Later:
OK - got 'em.

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Carolina 1.1

#1005 Post by einar »

Downloading :) Many Many Many thanks for the work :)

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Great news!

#1006 Post by oligin10 »

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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#1007 Post by Colonel Panic »

Great to see the new release, will try this soon.
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#1008 Post by p310don »

Downloading now.

Is the devx the same as 1.0?

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#1009 Post by Geoffrey »

p310don wrote:Downloading now.

Is the devx the same as 1.0?
Yeah same devx, you can either rename it or load it as it is, still works the same.

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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#1010 Post by Sage »

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?

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#1011 Post by einar »

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?
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 own :)

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#1012 Post by Sage »

Ah, yes, but i have form where SW juggling is concerned. Long-time Fora folk will know. I don't like it, it doesn't like me, it doesn't work, it devours valuable on-planet time, I don't do it: - leave it to the professionals....
But thanks, anyway.

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#1013 Post by Geoffrey »

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?
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.

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.
Geoffrey wrote:
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.
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.

Try editing the isolinux.cfg to read

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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
see if that helps, I don't have anything here at the moment to test with.
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.
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#1014 Post by Sage »

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.

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#1015 Post by Colonel Panic »

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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#1016 Post by Geoffrey »

Colonel 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 .
The version of google chrome in the repo is the last version that will run in Carolina, look in the sfs downloader of the ppm

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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.
There is a list of puppies and the glibc versions they use here http://puppylinux.org/wikka/glibc

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

#1017 Post by Geoffrey »

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
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.
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#1018 Post by Marv »

Geoffrey wrote:
Colonel 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 .
The version of google chrome in the repo is the last version that will run in Carolina, look in the sfs downloader of the ppm

Code: 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.
There is a list of puppies and the glibc versions they use here http://puppylinux.org/wikka/glibc

I haven't tried it, but this may work http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 391#437391
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.
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.

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#1019 Post by Sage »

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.

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#1020 Post by Geoffrey »

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.
What version as worked for you in the past, there are others in the repo if you do a manual search.

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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