Carolina - 1.3

[Geoffrey]

How best to set a password in Carolina 1.3?

I tried in Screen Saver & it would no allow me to enter one.

The screen saver uses Xlock, to add a new password go to Control Panel > desktop > Screener, uncheck the password box,
then apply, that clears the existing password, recheck the password box and apply again, it will ask for a password.

How did you go with the printer problem, did you enable printer sharing in the main menu > Network > Simple File Sharing Setup.

[edoc]

It pops up the new password window but refuses to accept any entries. It ignores numbers or text.

[Geoffrey]

It pops up the new password window but refuses to accept any entries. It ignores numbers or text.

It don't show text input, just type then press enter then it should ask to repeat the password which also don't show, enter again and it should be set, works for me like that ok.

[Sky Aisling]

edoc wrote:
It pops up the new password window but refuses to accept any entries. It ignores numbers or text.

Geoffrey wrote:
It don't show text input, just type then press enter then it should ask to repeat the password which also don't show, enter again and it should be set, works for me like that ok.

Xlock password is 1 character long then 'enter'.

[gcmartin]

On the printer item,

1. if the printer is a LAN connected printer (wired/wireless), then it is seen by all PCs on the LAN. And setup will be similar or same.
2. If the printer attaches to the router via USB, then some routers present this a little differently to LAN users.

Which way is the printer connected for LAN user access?

Here to help

[edoc]

edoc wrote:
It pops up the new password window but refuses to accept any entries. It ignores numbers or text.


It don't show text input, just type then press enter then it should ask to repeat the password which also don't show, enter again and it should be set, works for me like that ok.

Xlock password is 1 character long then 'enter'.

Now that "splains" it ... but why such a weak password design?

Thanks!

[edoc]

On the printer item,

1. if the printer is a LAN connected printer (wired/wireless), then it is seen by all PCs on the LAN. And setup will be similar or same.
2. If the printer attaches to the router via USB, then some routers present this a little differently to LAN users.

Which way is the printer connected for LAN user access?

Here to help

The printer is connected to the ASUS router via USB.

I can see it in the Tomato OS on the ASUS router.

I'll be home all day tomorrow & Christ-mas, though busy with family some of that time, surely I'll find an opportunity to fix some things and break some others ...

Thanks!

[Geoffrey]

edoc wrote:
It pops up the new password window but refuses to accept any entries. It ignores numbers or text.


It don't show text input, just type then press enter then it should ask to repeat the password which also don't show, enter again and it should be set, works for me like that ok.

Xlock password is 1 character long then 'enter'.

Now that "splains" it ... but why such a weak password design?

Thanks!

That's not correct, it's not just 1 character long, the password can be a sentence if you like.

Example: at the "key:" prompt type "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", you won't be able to see what your typing, press the enter key, at the "Again:" prompt repeat the password and then press the enter key again, the password is now set, to unlock you will need to type "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

The password is stored in a encrypted format in /root/.xlockrc

[gcmartin]

Hello @Edoc

... The printer is connected to the ASUS router via USB ...

Printer
In Win7/Win8 there is a wonderful facility which shows all printers found within your home LAN's subnet. If you have this running, open explorer to your Printer and look for its name to be listed as having the same IP as your router.

You "may" need to load the actual printer's driver, but, Microsoft "my" already have it. If not, you may be able to use a generic printer driver (HP III, for example) from Windows.

In Carolina
Knowing this IP address and printer name allows you to open a browser URL to http://localhost:631 where you can set up your PUP to print to the router's printer.

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[edoc]

I think that I'm not being sufficiently concise.

I can see and print to the printer, which is connected to the router, from any of the Linux computers here.

I have made no attempt to print from a computer booted with a MS version of windows as I almost never use anything from MS & our son who does has not made the time to try - he sneaker-nets school-related documents via a USB stick to a Linux computer.

What I cannot do is to print to the Brother printer wirelessly from an Android device.

This is supposed to be handled by an Android app made available by Brother but it's not working in my case - their app fails to find the printer - I believe it to be a flaw in their app but they've yet to reply to my inquiry.

Thanks for helping!

[rcrsn51]

What I cannot do is to print to the Brother printer wirelessly from an Android device.

This is supposed to be handled by an Android app made available by Brother but it's not working in my case - their app fails to find the printer - I believe it to be a flaw in their app but they've yet to reply to my inquiry.

I have already explained the situation here. You need to disconnect the printer from the router and use its own networking features - wired or wireless. This would also require that you reinstall the printer in your Puppy clients through CUPS.

Also, turn off sharing in your Puppy CUPS setups. You don't need it anymore.

[Terry H]

What I cannot do is to print to the Brother printer wirelessly from an Android device.

I have a brother 7860DW wifi enabled multifunction printer. The easiest printing I have ever set up and used is by using the Brother print and scan app. It is working on 4 android tablet/smart phones here.

[buckaroo50]

I found that UFRAW-0.20 is missing a lib file and does not work with GIMP but UFRAW-0.18 works fine and is not missing any lib files or dependencies...

Anyone else find this to be true?

[Geoffrey]

I found that UFRAW-0.20 is missing a lib file and does not work with GIMP but UFRAW-0.18 works fine and is not missing any lib files or dependencies...

Anyone else find this to be true?

What lib file does it say is missing?

UFRAW-0.20 works ok for me, when installed from ppm, it also downloads dependencies gtkimageview-1.6.3 and lensfun-0.2.8.

If installed without Gimp being present then it will have these missing library files

libgimpui-2.0.so.0
libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0
libgimpmodule-2.0.so.0
libgimp-2.0.so.0
libgimpmath-2.0.so.0
libgimpconfig-2.0.so.0
libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0
libgimpbase-2.0.so.0

UFRAW-0.20 installs gimp plugin:

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/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ufraw-gimp

Opening a raw image with gimp then runs ufraw which in turn loads the image in gimp when OK is selected.

UFRAW has no menu entry, if run from the terminal it give the option to open a raw file, the image can be edited and saved or opened with gimp.

Here's a menu entry for those that would like one, extract it to /usr/share/applications.

[Geoffrey]

Animwall Desktop Widget, a small app that will create a animated gif desktop widget.

It serves no real purpose, it's just a desktop toy.

Select a small file size animated gif of appropriate dimensions, 256 colors or less would be best, as it can be CPU hungry.

it layers itself over the desktop so makes desktop icons and right-click menus inaccessible, use it as a wallpaper if a none active desktop is acceptable.

To use select an animated gif, this will resize the gif to desktop dimensions and a preview image using "gifsicle".

Selecting "Start" will create a script /root/Startup/anim_wall and runs the script, the widget will continue to run at startup.

Selecting "Stop" kills the process and removes anim_wall from /root/Startup.

Use in conjunction with an existing wallpaper and the widget with opacity, Cairo Dock or any other launcher could be used to make it look cool.

pet installs menu entry to Control Panel > Desktop > Animwall Desktop Widget

Here's a few gifs to try, right click image, Save Link As...

[Gobbi]

I want to try to install the AMD driver on Carolina and the only devx file I found was devx_lina_1.0.sfs . I tried to load it - without saving it , because there was enough RAM - on Carolina 1.2 PAE ( remasterd - no savefile ) but after a few seconds everything was frozen.
Should I rename it to devx_lina_1.2.sfs or is it the wrong file ?

[Geoffrey]

@Gobbi

devx_lina_1.0.sfs is the correct file, there's no need to rename it, it should work fine.
Try it with a unaltered Carolina 1.2, I've not had any lockups unless it was something I did myself.
I've not tried to install AMD drivers, so I can't help, maybe someone else has them or can guide you as to what needs to be done.

[battleshooter]

AMD's a pretty straight forward process, quite like a standard Windows installation, next, next next. Just give it a go remembering to load devx, which you're clearly attempting to and the kernel headers.

I'll just copy paste a post I made for edoc regarding AMD drivers:

1. Download and load devx and kernel headers.

2. Find, download, and extract your drivers, then run the .sh.

3. When it's finished, exit to prompt and run:

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aticonfig --initial

4. Get back to the desktop:

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xwin

Hopefully you're back in and

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glxinfo | grep direct

tells you "yes"

Let me know if it doesn't work, as it can also be installed a different way, but this is the easier method.

If you have any errors, post them here and I'll see what I can do to help.

In regards to devx, I don't have any idea except maybe try loading devx with a pupsave if your machine is RAM challenged.

[Gobbi]

Thank's @Geoffrey and @battleshooter

Previously I managed to do it in Lighthouse , so the problem was to correctly load the devx_lina_1.0.sfs . I did that by copying the sfs's files directly to the partition where the remasterd frugal Carolina 1.2 was installed . So , devx and kernel headers files loaded fine .
Then I noticed that it went better to run directly - after I had made executable - the downloaded amd-driver file , instead of exiting to prompt. As recommended in the install_log file I had to go after that to /lib/modules/fglrx/ and run from the terminal the make_insall.sh file . Then I did exit to prompt and have run aticonfig --initial .
Then the video improved indeed . Hardinfo showed the card in the display section , glxgears : 25040 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5107,900 FPS .
There is a glitch still : AMD Catalyst Control Center does not launch and I have no audio through HDMI : the audio part of the sound card was not well recognised like it was in other puppies where I could install it : Fatdog , Lighthouse and LxTahrPup .

I'll keep trying ...

[battleshooter]

As recommended in the install_log file I had to go after that to /lib/modules/fglrx/ and run from the terminal the make_insall.sh file . Then I did exit to prompt and have run aticonfig --initial

I thought you only have to run /lib/modules/fglrx/make_install.sh if something goes wrong. Were there any errors?