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Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1507 Location: Ontario Canada

Running from live dvd on intel imac with savefile.

Carolina, version 002 on Thu 18 Oct 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 2400 XT
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: M74 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: # vesa

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1680x1050 pixels (444x277 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

OpenGL
Vendor Mesa Project
Renderer Software Rasterizer
Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3
Direct Rendering Yes

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8135 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 4127MB (248MB used)

BRCM2046 Hub
Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro
EHCI Host Controller
USB2.0 Hub
Keyboard Hub
USB Receiver
Apple Keyboard
DRX-820U
Built-in iSight

Looks nice, will test more.

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 366

Awesome report, Billtoo. Much appreciated.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1507 Location: Ontario Canada

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 366

dennis-slacko531 · Joined: 18 Jan 2012 Posts: 78 Location: Oregon

First, thanks for the Saluki fork.

I looked over all 15 pages on the forum & I guess I could try Geoffrey's suggestion on page 10 (get the old nvidia pet). But Saluki never had this issue, so I thought you wouldn't mind my inquiry.

Things go fine but then the mouse pointer just turns to a + (plus sign...) and I can move the pointer but nothing catches the focus, you know, can't do jack... So, I press Ctrl + Alt + Backspace and go into a full terminal and restart the desktop with xwin (or startx, thanks for that). It's happened about 4 times since I've been using lina-002 (frugal 1.5GB savefile) -- just started enjoying Carolina about 8 hours ago, a beauty!

Anyhow, I have a home-brew:

GeForce FX5600
Intel 2.8 P4 smp
1GB ram
80GB baracuda

UPDATE: I duplicated the mouse pointer (changing to + and being useless) -- I had Clementine playing an mp3 and it happened. That looks like the "problem" IMO.

rg66 · Posted: Thu 18 Oct 2012, 20:30 Post subject:

Thanks for the light version, very nice. Is it possible to just have the a_drives and light puppy_sfs in the repo to keep the download even smaller?

Did a custom build with 002 light non pae, same problem as with Saluki, "open with" menu non alphabetized.

Geoffrey · Posted: Thu 18 Oct 2012, 21:47 Post subject:

I've compiled the game freedroidrpg-0.15.1 http://www.freedroid.org/

This is a largish game with the SFS coming in at 208.7 MB.

Look in the PPM under SFS Downloads.

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 186 Location: SW Wisconsin

A little more time with Light (makes right?). Not much to report but I found I preferred the shutdown-gui from Saluki so I swapped it back in. Use it a lot when shaking things out and having all the options right there seems to work better.

Once in a blue moon, under Saluki 023 (don't think I saw it in 021 or earlier) and now under Carolina the touchpad says it's shutting down and then does so! I can't correlate it to anything yet and just ctrl + Alt + Del and restart X from the shutdown GUI. 1.6 GHz Pentium M laptop, intel i915 graphics, 1 gb RAM. frugal install on CF Card. Seems somewhat similar to what dennis-slacko531 saw here:

Geoffrey · Posted: Fri 19 Oct 2012, 01:20 Post subject:

I,ve added a tutorial to the How-tos, Tutorials, and Help page for those who need to install Nvidia drivers, see the first post.

It's more of a pictorial so it should be easier for non English speaking users to follow, there are links to the files required as well as a embedded Nvidia drivers web page for convenience.

These are the steps I have taken to install my card, if anyone has trouble with it, let me know in what way it can be improved and I will make any necessary changes.

Here is a direct link http://smokey01.com/carolina/pages/nvidia-tut/Nvidia_Installation_Tutorial.html

Geoffrey · Posted: Fri 19 Oct 2012, 01:53 Post subject: Re: Carolina light non-PAE

yerc1 · Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 51

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1507 Location: Ontario Canada

Running from live dvd with savefile on hp desktop pc.

Carolina, version 002 on Fri 19 Oct 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nvidia

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (373x231 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GT 220/PCIe/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.60
Direct Rendering Yes

sh-3.00# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.341 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.889 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.892 FPS

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz
Memory 4146MB (203MB used)

Carolina 002 is working well on this pc too.