Carolina - 1.3

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Moat · #1481 Post by **Moat** » Fri 24 Oct 2014, 00:29

BTW - the panel's Xfce4-weather-plugin has recently been broken due to some changes at it's weather data site, Met.no. One of the plugin's devs seems to have the multiple bugs squashed (as of today?), but may be a bit too early to tell for sure. Here -

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10916

Bob

Geoffrey · #1482 Post by **Geoffrey** » Fri 24 Oct 2014, 06:23

Moat wrote:BTW - the panel's Xfce4-weather-plugin has recently been broken due to some changes at it's weather data site, Met.no. One of the plugin's devs seems to have the multiple bugs squashed (as of today?), but may be a bit too early to tell for sure. Here -

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10916

Bob

I've patched the weather plugin, it now works, added to the repo, xfce4-weather-plugin-0.8.3-8 use the PPM to install it over the top of the existing one.

Should be ok, if it breaks I'll look for other patches for it.

Also added:

MasterPDFEditor-1.9.30-lina, Master PDF Editor for Desktop Linux is provided by Code Industry Ltd free for non-commercial use.

tea-38.0.0, Edit text files and source code.

Moat · #1483 Post by **Moat** » Fri 24 Oct 2014, 09:28

Geoffrey wrote: I've patched the weather plugin...

Holy smokes... thanks!! Works perfectly again.

Pretty darn clueless as to specifics of how you guys go about fixing this stuff so quickly... but really, really glad you do! Thanks again - much appreciated.

Bob

mikeslr · #1484 Post by **mikeslr** » Sat 25 Oct 2014, 00:20

Hi einar & All;

I too would love to see the latest Chromium, namely version 37, running under Carolina now that we have an updated kernel. But for a different reason: I acquired a Chromecast dongle which enables anything, including streaming video, on your computer to be mirrored to any TV which has an HDMI port. Chromecast works just as well with Chromium as it does with google-chrome. But to take advantage of this under Carolina requires a Chromium/Chrome/SWIron or similar beyond the version 12 chrome in PPM. That would require glbc libraries later than the 2.10 or 2.11 which I think are the latest available under Carolina. Chromium 37 requires at least 2.14. If I recall correctly, glibc libraries have to be compiled against the kernel under which they are to be used. [I also think that I recall someone saying that a OS can have more than one glibc library: so a newer glibc could be added without having to rebuild applications using older glibc's; or go without such applications].

mikesLr

battleshooter · #1485 Post by **battleshooter** » Sun 26 Oct 2014, 00:16

mikeslr wrote:I too would love to see the latest Chromium, namely version 37, running under Carolina now that we have an updated kernel

I was sort of working on that before I got run over my a slew of real life jobs. (Sorry Geoff, seems your driver issues have fallen off the wayside for the time.) But I'll try and give it a look this week, unless Geoffrey beats me to it.

Thanks by the way for the confirmation of the driver fix mikeslr.

Geoffrey · #1486 Post by **Geoffrey** » Sun 26 Oct 2014, 01:51

battleshooter wrote:
mikeslr wrote:I too would love to see the latest Chromium, namely version 37, running under Carolina now that we have an updated kernel
I was sort of working on that before I got run over my a slew of real life jobs. (Sorry Geoff, seems your driver issues have fallen off the wayside for the time.) But I'll try and give it a look this week, unless Geoffrey beats me to it.

Thanks by the way for the confirmation of the driver fix mikeslr.

Na, I haven't done anything more about the drivers, I can sort of live without them, well it's been that long and nobody as asked since the last time I tried to get the rt2800 working.

I was seeing if there was a chance that CDE would be able to create a package to run Google Chrome, I did try yesterday though I didn't put much effort into it, I tried to make the package in slacko but it crashed at loading the sandbox. http://www.pgbovine.net/cde.html

I've added Grooveoff to the repo, everything appears to work including the inbuild player, added a pinstall.sh to check for ssl certificates, if their not present it downloads them from the repo, I needed to add those for it to run in Carolite, if anyone does want it for carolite it will also download Qt and a few gstreamer plugins.

battleshooter · #1487 Post by **battleshooter** » Wed 29 Oct 2014, 02:31

I've used most of my internet allowance for the month, so holding off on the larger projects.

Made a new splash for Carolina a month ago and didn't like it. It's grown on me though so here it is if anyone wants a change. The pet will overwrite the current /root/Startup/0-desktop-splash.

Clean_Splash.pet

Edit: Confounded OCD. The stupid border around the Carolina logo was annoying me so I cut it out and reloaded the pet and screenshots.

yerc1 · #1488 Post by **yerc1** » Thu 30 Oct 2014, 08:39

battleshooter wrote:Well. I didn't expect recompiling the Carolina kernel to be some kind of odd past time, but here's Carolina 1.2 with the new 3.17 kernel.

I'm getting similar result with this Carolina as the version with kernel 3.15 which I tested in June 2014:
- oldest machine, an HP Compaq laptop is able to run this Carolina
- Acer netbook freezes at Personalise Screen
- Toshiba Chromebook gets to the Personalise Screen but the bottom 3/4 of the display is bad. See attachment.

I found some online information saying that kernel 3.17 has the drivers for the Toshiba Chromebook touchpad.

This chromebook is great for browsing the net, but a Carolina that runs on this machine and with the touchpad drivers would turn the chromebook into an awesome pc.

Any idea how to get this Carolina working on the Toshiba Chromebook?

rokytnji · #1489 Post by **rokytnji** » Thu 30 Oct 2014, 11:48

I guess the xvesa driver gives the same scrambled screen?

battleshooter · #1490 Post by **battleshooter** » Fri 31 Oct 2014, 05:00

yerc1 wrote: I'm getting similar result with this Carolina as the version with kernel 3.15 which I tested in June 2014:
- oldest machine, an HP Compaq laptop is able to run this Carolina
- Acer netbook freezes at Personalise Screen
- Toshiba Chromebook gets to the Personalise Screen but the bottom 3/4 of the display is bad. See attachment.

I found some online information saying that kernel 3.17 has the drivers for the Toshiba Chromebook touchpad.

This chromebook is great for browsing the net, but a Carolina that runs on this machine and with the touchpad drivers would turn the chromebook into an awesome pc.

Any idea how to get this Carolina working on the Toshiba Chromebook?

That's interesting. I have was to test the 3.15 and 3.17 Carolinas on a Toshiba Satellite and I had a similar image to the one you've attached. I wonder what it is about Toshibas that doesn't play nice with the new kernels?

Geoffrey · #1491 Post by **Geoffrey** » Fri 31 Oct 2014, 06:38

battleshooter wrote:
yerc1 wrote: I'm getting similar result with this Carolina as the version with kernel 3.15 which I tested in June 2014:
- oldest machine, an HP Compaq laptop is able to run this Carolina
- Acer netbook freezes at Personalise Screen
- Toshiba Chromebook gets to the Personalise Screen but the bottom 3/4 of the display is bad. See attachment.

I found some online information saying that kernel 3.17 has the drivers for the Toshiba Chromebook touchpad.

This chromebook is great for browsing the net, but a Carolina that runs on this machine and with the touchpad drivers would turn the chromebook into an awesome pc.

Any idea how to get this Carolina working on the Toshiba Chromebook?
That's interesting. I have was to test the 3.15 and 3.17 Carolinas on a Toshiba Satellite and I had a similar image to the one you've attached. I wonder what it is about Toshibas that doesn't play nice with the new kernels?

I had a similar problem with Carolina/Saluki and a Acer E525 using "Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller", I had to boot with the nox option and run using vesa, it also had a problem with backlight which boot option acpi_osi=Linux fixed, that may help.

battleshooter · #1492 Post by **battleshooter** » Fri 31 Oct 2014, 08:30

Geoffrey wrote:I had a similar problem with Carolina/Saluki and a Acer E525 using "Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller

That sounds about right. I know the laptop I have uses an integrated graphics card, Intel too I believe. I'll give it a go when I get the chance. The thing is though, the laptop works fine with normal Carolina kernel so I'm more inclined to believe it's a kernel issue.

yerc1 · #1493 Post by **yerc1** » Sat 01 Nov 2014, 00:13

Geoffrey wrote:
battleshooter wrote:
yerc1 wrote: I'm getting similar result with this Carolina as the version with kernel 3.15 which I tested in June 2014:
- oldest machine, an HP Compaq laptop is able to run this Carolina
- Acer netbook freezes at Personalise Screen
- Toshiba Chromebook gets to the Personalise Screen but the bottom 3/4 of the display is bad. See attachment.

I found some online information saying that kernel 3.17 has the drivers for the Toshiba Chromebook touchpad.

This chromebook is great for browsing the net, but a Carolina that runs on this machine and with the touchpad drivers would turn the chromebook into an awesome pc.

Any idea how to get this Carolina working on the Toshiba Chromebook?
That's interesting. I have was to test the 3.15 and 3.17 Carolinas on a Toshiba Satellite and I had a similar image to the one you've attached. I wonder what it is about Toshibas that doesn't play nice with the new kernels?
I had a similar problem with Carolina/Saluki and a Acer E525 using "Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller", I had to boot with the nox option and run using vesa, it also had a problem with backlight which boot option acpi_osi=Linux fixed, that may help.

I can report some progress thanks to Geoffrey's idea.

- Acer netbook with integrated video: booting with nox option then selecting vesa at xorgwizard does the trick.
- Toshiba Chromebook (has Intel HD Graphics): unable to proceed with the xorgwizard due to display issue. Please see attachment

I'm keen on running Carolina on the chromebook.

Any further suggestion is much appreciated.

battleshooter · #1494 Post by **battleshooter** » Sat 01 Nov 2014, 01:40

yerc1 wrote: - Toshiba Chromebook (has Intel HD Graphics): unable to proceed with the xorgwizard due to display issue. Please see attachment

I'm keen on running Carolina on the chromebook.

Any further suggestion is much appreciated.

What's the model number of the Chromebook?

yerc1 · #1495 Post by **yerc1** » Sat 01 Nov 2014, 05:07

battleshooter wrote: What's the model number of the Chromebook?

It's the CB30 model.

rokytnji · #1496 Post by **rokytnji** » Sat 01 Nov 2014, 17:12

Kinda a free laptop I picked up. It was given as partial payment for some
motorcycle repair I did, (took about 15 minutes).

It is XP Laptop full of viruses and cruft. Spent more time scrubbing Windows
than fixing the motorcycle. Using the older 1.2 version. Not the 3.15.

I tried BattleShooters 3.17 kernel version. It seems to be missing the broadcom patch in the older kernel releases. Here is relevant info.

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# inxi -zv7
System:    Host: puppypc26685 Kernel: 3.2.13-ski i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.3.4) 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.10.0 (Gtk 2.24.8) info: xfce4-panel dm: N/A Distro: Carolina Linux Linux 3.2.13-ski [ arch]
Machine:   System: Dell (portable) product: Latitude E5500 Chassis: type: 8
           Mobo: Dell model: 0DW635 Bios: Dell version: A06 date: 09/26/2008
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU T7250 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 7979.52 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:2a42 
           X.org: 1.11.0 drivers: intel (unloaded: vesa) tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card: Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:293e 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY driver: wl bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4315
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express 
           driver: tg3 ver: 3.121 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:1674
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A IF: wlan0 ip: <filter> ip-v6: N/A 
Drives:    HDD Total Size: (160.0GB,22.8% used) ()
           1: id: /dev/sda model: ST9160310AS size: 160.0GB serial: N/A temp: 39C 
           Optical: /dev//dev/sr0 model: N/A rev: N/A dev-links: cdrom,dvd
           Features: speed: N/A multisession: N/A audio: N/A dvd: N/A rw: none state: N/A
Partition: ID: /initrd/mnt/dev_save size: 7.7G used: 1.8G (24%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sda6 label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID: /initrd/pup_rw size: 1008M used: 266M (27%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/loop1 label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID: /mnt/sda2 size: 49G used: 33G (67%) fs: fuseblk dev: /dev/sda2 label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID: swap-1 size: 4.19GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 label: N/A uuid: N/A
RAID:      System: supported: raid0 
           No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
           Unused Devices: none
Unmounted: ID: /dev/sda1 size: 0.08G label: N/A uuid: N/A fs: FAT (16 bit)
           ID: /dev/sda7 size: 9.44G label: N/A uuid: N/A fs: XFS
           ID: /dev/sda8 size: 86.11G label: N/A uuid: N/A fs: XFS
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 49.5C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 115 Uptime: 44 min Memory: 287.2/1981.4MB Runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.3.4 
           Client: Shell (bash 3.00.16 running in Terminal) inxi: 1.9.17

inxi is up to version 2.28 or so also. Just info. Not complaining. The xfs partitions are not loaded with anything yet.

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# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="DellUtility" UUID="07D8-0C01" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda5: UUID="4b298045-6ed7-4168-a87d-8538e43dd8a4" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda: LABEL="DellUtility" UUID="07D8-0C01" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda2: UUID="BEA8A525A8A4DD61" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/loop1: UUID="67f38b65-1912-409a-9ae5-445fa163b531" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda8: LABEL="/home" UUID="a3edf499-2a32-49a6-958e-d5b824b7c364" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="/" UUID="3fb86a3d-99c9-4494-aae8-f16edc22976b" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="/" UUID="bfa8923d-0bf5-4205-83a0-126a9d67e955" TYPE="xfs"

Anyways. Runs fast. Runs good. I may be coaching a big guy like me
on a install on a HP mini book later on with a Broadcom wifi chipset like
I did on this one . I needed the practice on installing since he wishes to dual boot with Windows 7.

No problemos but I figured I'd post anyways since I am like a chriping cricket on this thread. I read more than I post.

Geoffrey · #1497 Post by **Geoffrey** » Sun 02 Nov 2014, 01:17

Updated repo:

wget-1.16-i486 (Bug fix)

openssl-1.0.1j-i486 Latest release as of 15 Oct 2014

HathiDownloadHelper-1.0.9 Assistant to download books from Hathitrust.org

TeighaViewer-4.0.0, dwg file viewer, Open Design Alliance Inc.

Teigha Viewer is a free application to view .dwg and .dgn files. It is available for Windows/Linux/MacOS.

rokytnji · #1498 Post by **rokytnji** » Sun 02 Nov 2014, 14:55

I may not post much here. But as you can see. I do some work outside of this thread.

http://www.smartestcomputing.us.com/top ... ppy-linux/

New user on last post of that thread is the latest project.

battleshooter · #1499 Post by **battleshooter** » Tue 04 Nov 2014, 13:12

For those asking for Chrome 37, I've compiled a glibc update here, but please be aware a glibc upgrade is a big thing, maybe test your glibc download on a disposable pup save before installing on your beloved Carolina install you can't live without.

Note this should let you run the Google Chrome 37 binary, but not 38... 38 seems to require a Xorg upgrade. However...Never fear! I'm working on that too

For those waiting on hardware fixes, sorry yerc1, nothing yet

rokytnji wrote:I may not post much here. But as you can see. I do some work outside of this thread.

Cool. Preach it mate

rokytnji wrote:I tried BattleShooters 3.17 kernel version. It seems to be missing the broadcom patch in the older kernel releases.

Sorry, so the Broadcom wireless is working for you or isn't? I know you said you weren't complaining, but just trying to discern if there's a hardware problem here.

rokytnji · #1500 Post by **rokytnji** » Tue 04 Nov 2014, 13:30

Sorry, so the Broadcom wireless is working for you or isn't? I know you said you weren't complaining, but just trying to discern if there's a hardware problem here.

I know posted code can be boring as hell. Especially, if like you. You code all
day.

My inxi report shows the broadcom working in the 1.2 version with the 3.2.13
kernel. It was the reason I recommended the older kernel 1.2 version to
the New User I was coaching through a install on that forum I mod at.

I was just mentioning your version in case you did not know
that Broadcom and your 3.17 version of 1.2 did not play at
all together.

Your iso spin could not see the wireless in Frisbee with a Broadcom chip.
Just to make a long story short.
The older original with the broadcom patch could.

Just info, as always. No attitudes here.

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