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Re: Carolina 1.2 with 3.15 kernel

#1336 Post by peebee »

battleshooter wrote:Carolina 1.2 with 3.15 kernel.
Support for Broadcom wifi seems to be missing....no B43 firmware and no wl driver..... :(
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#1337 Post by battleshooter »

Sorry I haven't responded sooner. My internet has been down.

Thanks for all the feedback guys. Glad to hear the new kernel is working for you, Marv and James C.

yerc1, I was going to suggest you may have mixed up the the Carolina SFSs with the old kernel versions, but as the USB was able to boot on a different laptop I don't know why it couldn't load the zdrv on the Acer.

Ahh, the Broadcom drivers. Specifically, what are the models of your wireless cards peebee and yerc1? I need to read more into the old Carolina posts concerning Broadcom, but I'll work on a fix.
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3.15 kerneled lina 1.2

#1338 Post by Marv »

battleshooter wrote:Sorry I haven't responded sooner. My internet has been down.

Thanks for all the feedback guys. Glad to hear the new kernel is working for you, Marv and James C.
The more I use this the more I like it. Stable, the 2005 era Pentium M loves it, all of the saluki/lina polish and repo, xfce4.10, and verry verry sparing of resources on these middle aged laptops. I've stripped out acpid, swapped in the xfce4 battery monitor for vattery, and suspend to ram with a launcher calling sleep.sh. A minimalists delight!
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#1339 Post by gcmartin »

... it may have been wiser to leave LibreOffice out and just use the sfs option thus reducing the ISO by near half the size. ...
This distro is NOT that big. LibreOffice brings a great, speedy, and stable office package to the table. (Wish others would do so too.)

The ONLY future addition that I would like to see is the addition of Full SAMBA provided by @01Micko to the OOTB base of this or as a PPM offering where it installs with a functioning Menu>Network>SAMBA Simple Management for easy new user startup (cost to size is more/less 10MB total,but benefit is huge for users who create or use content from here).

The prime idea is that any user who creates content in a home/household, with other devices that can use the content, can do so without need to install anything. The majority (99.999%) of ALL devices ever created for LANs did so with Microsoft/Apple in mind. SAMBA fixes that for Linux users.

This PUP distro is a shining star in what and how it offers user services.

Thanks again and again for what you guys have done since Saluki!

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#1340 Post by battleshooter »

Finally some free time. Here's the kernel source for 3.15 and the new devx with the new kernel appropriate driver headers.

devx_lina_1.2_kernel-3.15.sfs
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b3edf2992ac8897fedfd20917afd7ef4
kernel_sources-3.15-saluki.sfs
MD5:7d522508621483e1dcc82089e15df3b8

Well peebee, you appear to be the man/woman to go to for Broadcom drivers. I had a go at compiling the ones found here (version 6.30.223.141), and put wl.ko in a pet, have I done that right? I'm not really sure because I have none of the hardware to test it on.

Because of the changes to the kernel I had to apply this patch and the code change mentioned here, but other than that it appeared to compile cleanly.
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Re: 3.15 kerneled lina 1.2

#1341 Post by battleshooter »

Geoffrey wrote:It's not dead but dormant, it's been slow for the simple fact it works ok as is, we were going to release a update, but it would of only been updated installed applications
Ahh yep, hard to improve on perfection eh? ;) Either way, I'm glad Carolina hasn't been abandoned.
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I've got to say, I like that screenshot Marv, that low CPU usage brings joy to my heart :)
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Broadcom

#1342 Post by peebee »

battleshooter wrote:Well peebee, you appear to be the man/woman to go to for Broadcom drivers. I had a go at compiling the ones found here (version 6.30.223.141), and put wl.ko in a pet, have I done that right? I'm not really sure because I have none of the hardware to test it on.

Because of the changes to the kernel I had to apply this patch and the code change mentioned here, but other than that it appeared to compile cleanly.
Hi battleshooter

Your pet worked for me - it creates eth1 rather than wlan0 but that's no biggy - but dmesg does report wl related crashes - see attached.

I tried to compile my usual source....
First I had to copy 2 symlinks from /lib/modules/3.15 to /lib/modules/3.15.0 - so I think there's a bit of problem with your devx directory naming

The compile failed, so I would probably need to apply the later patches for k3.15 to get my usual source to compile. I've compiled successfully for k3.12 previously ... if I get chance I'll investigate further.

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Re: Broadcom

#1343 Post by battleshooter »

peebee wrote:I had to copy 2 symlinks from /lib/modules/3.15 to /lib/modules/3.15.0 - so I think there's a bit of problem with your devx directory naming
Ahh yes :oops: , I forgot about that, I fixed it on my own system manually but clearly need to transfer that fix over.
peebee wrote:The compile failed, so I would probably need to apply the later patches for k3.15 to get my usual source to compile. I've compiled successfully for k3.12 previously ... if I get chance I'll investigate further.
Yeah, kernels past 3.10 have changed proc functions and past 3.14 and again with 3.15 there seem to be more minor function changes. Like I mentioned before I had to apply this patch and the code change mentioned here.

Looking at dmesg, the only error I can spot concerning wl is

Code: Select all

wl: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
I think that can be solved using the license patch I dug up while looking for 3.15 kernel patches.

Thanks for looking at that.
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#1344 Post by Geoffrey »

Updated the repo with a few apps.

SmartDeblur-1.27

copyq-2.3.0

focuswriter-1.5.1
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covergloobus-1.7.3

#1345 Post by Geoffrey »

I tried covergloobus-1.7.3 that was compiled by robwoj44 in Wary, desktop transparency didn't work, so I recompiled in Carolina.

Tested with Clementine.

It can be found in the repo PPM.

" CoverGloobus is a desktop coverart & media controller that can also display lyrics to the currently playing song.

it supports pretty much every music player and has configurable settings for lyric download services.

It can show you the tabs for the song you’re listening to, getting them from the most popular web services "
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#1346 Post by battleshooter »

Geoffrey wrote:" CoverGloobus is a desktop coverart & media controller that can also display lyrics to the currently playing song.
Hmmm, that's cool. I've currently got Conky doing that (coverart for Clementine) but I imagine this is much easier.
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user file

#1347 Post by marmalade »

I wonder why it takes to long on a new install to write the /carolina/<savefile> before shutting down? (I think that's what is happening as there is no info displayed while this takes place, and that could be minutes)

Why not write this file earlier in the shutdown process so information could be displayed as to what is happening and how long it might take?

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Re: user file

#1348 Post by Geoffrey »

marmalade wrote:I wonder why it takes to long on a new install to write the /carolina/<savefile> before shutting down? (I think that's what is happening as there is no info displayed while this takes place, and that could be minutes)

Why not write this file earlier in the shutdown process so information could be displayed as to what is happening and how long it might take?
I have noticed that when I used usb flash drives plugged into usb ports on the front of my pc, was quicker in a rear port, usb 2.0/1.1?,
though some flash drives are slow no matter what, but it's fast with a frugal on a ext4 HDD.
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#1349 Post by Geoffrey »

Added to the repo tragtor-0.8.80 python frontend for ffmpeg and Youtube-DLG-0.3.6 python Youtube downloader.
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#1350 Post by Geoffrey »

Updated Whisker menu to version 1.4.0 from git

1.4.0
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- Add option to switch position of categories and launchers.
- Add waiting for grabs; allows modifier as shortcut.
- Add padding to username.
- Add single panel row option.
- Add about entry to context menu.
- Load applications immediately.
- Recognize keypad enter as return for searching.
- Set menu window type hint to DIALOG.
- Translation updates: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.
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qtractor-0.6.2

#1351 Post by Geoffrey »

Compiled and added qtractor-0.6.2 to the repo, Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application.

Thanks to battleshooter for some of the library files that were required.

I don't have anything to test the midi side of things with.

I added the rubberband plugin so the speed and pitch can be adjusted.
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#1352 Post by Geoffrey »

Repacked skype-4.2.0.13-lina, there is a pet and sfs in the repo, the pet is smaller wheres the sfs contains the qt library files to make it a standalone, this can be used in Carolite which doesn't have qt pre-installed.
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#1353 Post by Geoffrey »

Knowthelist is a Qt DJ style music player with que and fade, a party music player, added to the repo.
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#1354 Post by RSH »

Hi.

The latest applications for Carolina compiled by battleshooter did made me curious and so I downloaded Carolina 1.2 a few days ago.

Yes, this is a nice OS and it seems to work fine - as far as I could test.

Just a single issue noticed so far when using DE interface.

When switching to de (de_DE) all the menus are in DE (as far as they have those [de] entries). But when enabling UTF-8 all the menus are returning to EN.

Any tips on this?


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#1355 Post by Geoffrey »

RSH wrote:Hi.

The latest applications for Carolina compiled by battleshooter did made me curious and so I downloaded Carolina 1.2 a few days ago.

Yes, this is a nice OS and it seems to work fine - as far as I could test.

Just a single issue noticed so far when using DE interface.

When switching to de (de_DE) all the menus are in DE (as far as they have those [de] entries). But when enabling UTF-8 all the menus are returning to EN.

Any tips on this?



RSH
I changed the language to DE and toggled UTF-8 restarted x, I couldn't see any distinguishable difference in the menu, all the DE entries showed.

Maybe someone else has this problem and can shed some light on it.
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