MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback

[Stevo]

@UM...checkin' out your age there...2016...that's very old

Hmmm....

[Jerry3904]

And down we go...

[golden45]

mx 17 beta 3 on 32 bit still stops at cli-installer

can you elaborate? Do you mean you don't get an XFCE desktop?

can you post inxi -F for your machine?

I'm running an older intel p4 with 3 g of ram - computer with sis drivers.On boot from dvd Everything works well until it tries to boot the display.Then it stops asking for root login and root password to use the cli-installer and follow instructions.No I can't get to the XFCE desktop.thanks john

[dolphin_oracle]

mx 17 beta 3 on 32 bit still stops at cli-installer

can you elaborate? Do you mean you don't get an XFCE desktop?

can you post inxi -F for your machine?

I'm running an older intel p4 with 3 g of ram - computer with sis drivers.On boot from dvd Everything works well until it tries to boot the display.Then it stops asking for root login and root password to use the cli-installer and follow instructions.No I can't get to the XFCE desktop.thanks john

Ok.

Please.try the safe or.failsafe options please.

[golden45]

I've had no trouble with MX 16.1 november update It booted to the desktop I then installed the os using the installer and it runs great.Very nice os thanks to all.John

[golden45]

I've had no trouble with MX 16.1 november update It booted to the desktop I then installed the os using the installer and it runs great.Very nice os thanks to all.John

There is no safe menu on boot of dvd I will try and download again with a check of the download.Thanks John

[BitJam]

There is no safe menu on boot of dvd I will try and download again with a check of the download.Thanks John

This is a bug! Downloading again won't help.

edit: You can type in these boot parameters "nomodeset vga=safe" instead of using the missing F6 menu.

[golden45]

I just tried to boot dvd again--It booted fine until it displayed en
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Localizing thunar custom actions
Welcome To MX 17.b3(Horizon)32 bit pae
For command line install login as root (password root) enter the command cli-installer Follow the instructions.
MX1 Login: It then stops and waits
Thanks John

[Jerry3904]

Thanks for the feedback.

is that something that can be by default?

I have been looking at this. The firmware-realtek package we have installed does not list this. According to a post on the Ubuntu forum there is firmware missing that can be gotten here:

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wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37387612/rtl8192sfw.bin.gz

I was able to download it, so it still exists, but I have no way to test if that would take care of the problem.

[spsf64]

Thanks for the feedback.

is that something that can be by default?

I have been looking at this. The firmware-realtek package we have installed does not list this. According to a post on the Ubuntu forum there is firmware missing that can be gotten here:

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wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37387612/rtl8192sfw.bin.gz

I was able to download it, so it still exists, but I have no way to test if that would take care of the problem.

The only reference I found about this was in archlinux wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne ... domization
I think its not only related to realtek, not sure though...
This is also referenced in wiki page:
https://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2016/08 ... ger-1-4-0/