Carolina - 1.3

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edoc · #1541 Post by **edoc** » Fri 05 Dec 2014, 03:54

Cool!

Looking forward to it ...

battleshooter · #1542 Post by **battleshooter** » Fri 05 Dec 2014, 06:00

Geoffrey wrote:Sneek peek Carolina 1.3

Good on ya Geoff. Here's that logo you requested for this release

Geoffrey · #1543 Post by **Geoffrey** » Fri 05 Dec 2014, 07:21

battleshooter wrote:
Geoffrey wrote:Sneek peek Carolina 1.3
Good on ya Geoff. Here's that logo you requested for this release

I was nearly tempted, maybe the next one, just built a iso, 489.7 MB, boots from CD, no apparent bugs.

rokytnji · #1544 Post by **rokytnji** » Fri 05 Dec 2014, 15:31

Got my startup sound ready for 1.3 when I upgrade.

It's coming up,
It's coming up,
It's coming up,
It's coming up,
It's coming up,
It's coming up,

It's dare,

Ahhhhhhh.

Did some fiddling with audacity and a Dare ringtone by Gorrilaz.

Geoffrey · #1545 Post by **Geoffrey** » Fri 05 Dec 2014, 22:05

rokytnji wrote:Got my startup sound ready for 1.3 when I upgrade.

I dumped the start and shutdown sound, I got sick of hearing harps, I'm usually glued to the screen so I know it's starting.

While I'm here, does anyone get black lines over the text when posting in the forum.

battleshooter and I have this happening, well I have since I've been using this pc.

I'm thinking it's a video card driver problem.

Code: Select all

Graphics:  Card: ATI RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series] 
           X.org: 1.11.0 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: vesa) tty size: 101x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root

p310don · #1546 Post by **p310don** » Sat 06 Dec 2014, 07:07

1.3 = excitement

edoc · #1547 Post by **edoc** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 01:35

So, will I be able to boot Carolina 1.3 on an Acer ICONIA W500P-BZ841 10.1" 2GB 32GB SSD tablet?

Geoffrey · #1548 Post by **Geoffrey** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 01:51

edoc wrote:So, will I be able to boot Carolina 1.3 on an Acer ICONIA W500P-BZ841 10.1" 2GB 32GB SSD tablet?

I couldn't say, if 1.2 works then 1.3 will.

The underlying system is as it was, so if you had problems before then you mostly still will have with this.

There are no plans to update any drivers or any other major changes.

But battleshooter will possibly have a version that will work on hardware that 1.2/1.3 fails on.

Watch this space, nearly there, still finalizing things.

battleshooter · #1549 Post by **battleshooter** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 02:02

edoc wrote:So, will I be able to boot Carolina 1.3 on an Acer ICONIA W500P-BZ841 10.1" 2GB 32GB SSD tablet?

I had a quick search online, doesn't seem to be anyone who's had luck booting Linux on the Acer ICONIA. Not even Ubuntu. I usually use that as my gauge, if it can boot in Ubuntu, it ought to boot in Puppy. I'm also thinking if it won't boot Carolina 1.2 it won't boot Carolina 1.3 as Geoffrey said there would be no driver changes,

edoc · #1550 Post by **edoc** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 02:26

I read around a lot before considering it, since it's a little old, but it's pre-UEFI ...

"The Acer Iconia W500 is a tablet PC which also supports Linux. It is supported by Ubuntu since version 11.10."

http://www.linux-hardware-guide.com/201 ... ti-hd-6250

"I have good experiance of acer iconia with debian wheezy with xfce"

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2150976

Mint

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=127558

Also ...

https://ant1antuan.wordpress.com/2011/1 ... iguration/

battleshooter · #1551 Post by **battleshooter** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 02:46

Haha, whoops. I think the problem was I searched the whole model string so I didn't get a lot of hits

Well I guess that leads to my other question, does it work with Carolina 1.2?

edoc · #1552 Post by **edoc** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 02:53

I'll give it a try when I get my hands on it.

I was hoping someone on the list had already tried ... before I spent $200.

I haven't found any other tablets that are affordable (around $200.) and that play nicely with Linux.

edoc · #1553 Post by **edoc** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 03:18

Triple-OS Tablet!

Never hear of "Burg".

Gotta try this!

This tablet comes with three OS installed; Windows 8 Release Preview, Ubuntu 11.10 and Android ICS 4.0.4 -x86. I have custom graphic bootloader (Burg) created so you can select OS to boot (see pictures). Windows 8 is installed a few days ago so it is walid for almost 3 months, then you can decide to purchase the license, install your Windows 7 or just use Ubuntu or Android.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Acer-ICONIA-W50 ... 1008471835

Billtoo · #1554 Post by **Billtoo** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 04:20

I did a little rooting around and found lina 1.3

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Sat 6 Dec 2014 on Carolina 1.3 Linux 3.2.13-ski i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
oem: VirtualBox VESA BIOS

X Server: Xorg Driver: vesa
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1152x864 pixels (423x318 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Core 0: @3391 1: @3391 2: @3391 3: @3391 MHz

It's running well in Vbox.

edoc · #1555 Post by **edoc** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 04:29

Hey! No fair! How'd you do that?

Did he already post it?

Cool ... something for tomorrow afternoon when company leaves ...

Geoffrey · #1556 Post by **Geoffrey** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 05:08

Billtoo wrote:I did a little rooting around and found lina 1.3

That's cheetin, I was going to update that before posting it, though it is pretty much how it is, rg66 suggested I update sfs load and I was going to make another theme to make uploading another iso worth the effort.

But now the dog's out of the bag.
I'll have to use hidden directories from now on

Billtoo · #1557 Post by **Billtoo** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 05:36

Geoffrey wrote: That's cheetin, I was going to update that before posting it, though it is pretty much how it is, rg66 suggested I update sfs load and I was going to make another theme to make uploading another iso worth the effort.

I loaded google earth and the devx so sfs load on the fly is working fine I think.

battleshooter · #1558 Post by **battleshooter** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 05:48

Billtoo you're a scoundrel!

I like how you have a screencap of Taylor Swift. Wasn't her album leaked before the due date as well?

edoc wrote:Never hear of "Burg".

Oh, that hurts Edoc, how could you never have heard of it? And I posted such a nice howto. With pictures!

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91300

Still, that sounds like an interesting buy. I see it's sold, did you actually buy it?

greengeek · #1559 Post by **greengeek** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 06:26

edoc wrote:So, will I be able to boot Carolina 1.3 on an Acer ICONIA W500P-BZ841 10.1" 2GB 32GB SSD tablet?

Slacko 5.3.3t works well on that tablet - including the touch screen - although the touchscreen only works like a touchpad. You slide your finger across the screen to position the mouse, then tap the screen (anywhere) to simulate a mouseclick.

I had to load xvkbd to get access to an onscreen keyboard but at least it worked. Not like Android though - the whole area of touchscreen functionality in Puppy is dependent on devs having access to hardware, which makes it difficult. There are so many different types of touchscreen...

Haven't tried Carolina on it yet though.

ps: LH64 works well, but you have to have a good eye and a tiny finger to drive the high res screen and touchpad (touchpad works more like Android, but without the multitouch 'stretch' capability)

rg66 · #1560 Post by **rg66** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 06:42

Billtoo wrote:I loaded google earth and the devx so sfs load on the fly is working fine I think.

Versions prior to 2.3 had some issues, you can do a test to see if it's working properly. In RAM, remove some packages with "remove builtin packages" and then load and unload an sfs with "sfs load on the fly". If the removed packages reappear then it should be updated to version 2.3.

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