MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback

[golden45]

Really happy that 32 bit is still available older computer like mine really save a lot of money .thanks john

[asqwerth]

The mxlinux 17 beta 3 horizon 64 bit is great but the 32 bit is lagging .thanks john

It would be helpful if you could give more details to the Dev Team about "lagging":

- What is your hardware like? Type "inxi -F" in terminal, or in MX-Tools, click on "Quick System Info".
- What programs were you running?
- What are the things or effects you noticed that make you say that it is lagging?

[chrispop99]

Waiting for mx 17 beta 4 to see where we are going seems like there is lots of problems that have to be addressed

There are very few bugs in beta 3 compared to what might be normally expected. There has been three alpha versions before even the first beta, so a huge amount of work already done.

There will be no further betas; the next testing release will be the first release candidate.

Chris

[golden45]

System: Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.15.0-041500rc2-generic i686 bits: 32 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-16.1_386 Metamorphosis 8 June 2017
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P4SP-MX v: REV 1.xx serial: N/A
BIOS: Award v: ASUS P4SP-MX 1006 Beta 002 date: 04/14/2006
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-HT-) cache: 1024 KB
clock speeds: max: 1994 MHz 1: 1994 MHz 2: 1994 MHz
Graphics: Card: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: vesa (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev)
Resolution: 1280x1024@0.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9, 128 bits) version: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio: Card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 AC'97 Sound Controller driver: snd_intel8x0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-041500rc2-generic
Network: Card: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet driver: sis900
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:11:2f:99:eb:dc
Drives: HDD Total Size: 30.8GB (26.8% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: Maxtor_6E030L0 size: 30.8GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 28G used: 7.6G (29%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 0.10GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 162 Uptime: 1:29 Memory: 391.7/1980.4MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.43
I'm still running november 16.1 upgrade-which I have installed the 4.15 kernel.
Can this old computer run 17 b3?I've had no success booting from the dvd I have downloaded twice burned to dvd with xburn.
Thanks john

I've also done a complete dist-upgrade to the stretch repos

[darth.severus]

Got this error here, Python3 seems generally to be a bit cut down, there's no pip either!

>>> help()
...
To get a list of available modules, keywords, symbols, or topics, type
"modules", "keywords", "symbols", or "topics". Each module also comes
with a one-line summary of what it does; to list the modules whose name
or summary contain a given string such as "spam", type "modules spam".

help> modules

Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...

Error: Could not import kivy. Please install it using theinstructions mentioned here `http://kivy.org/#download` .

[timkb4cq]

In general, programming languages included in MX only include the core and modules brought in by other packages. The python3-all package doesn't pull in python3-kivy or python3-pip but both are easy to install from the standard repos.

[Stevo]

System: Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.15.0-041500rc2-generic i686 bits: 32 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-16.1_386 Metamorphosis 8 June 2017
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P4SP-MX v: REV 1.xx serial: N/A
BIOS: Award v: ASUS P4SP-MX 1006 Beta 002 date: 04/14/2006
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-HT-) cache: 1024 KB
clock speeds: max: 1994 MHz 1: 1994 MHz 2: 1994 MHz
Graphics: Card: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: vesa (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev)
Resolution: 1280x1024@0.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9, 128 bits) version: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio: Card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 AC'97 Sound Controller driver: snd_intel8x0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-041500rc2-generic
Network: Card: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet driver: sis900
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:11:2f:99:eb:dc
Drives: HDD Total Size: 30.8GB (26.8% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: Maxtor_6E030L0 size: 30.8GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 28G used: 7.6G (29%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 0.10GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 162 Uptime: 1:29 Memory: 391.7/1980.4MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.43
I'm still running november 16.1 upgrade-which I have installed the 4.15 kernel.
Can this old computer run 17 b3?I've had no success booting from the dvd I have downloaded twice burned to dvd with xburn.
Thanks john

I've also done a complete dist-upgrade to the stretch repos

Can we really call it MX if you're using an Ubuntu kernel? I also suspect that SIS integrated graphics, maybe you can add a dedicated graphics card for next to nothing.

[golden45]

Your right I could try a dedicated graphics card.I experimented with mx 16 to show what you can do with such a great distro as mx 16 using my old system and applying packages from other systems.I can boot from 17b3 dvd but it goes to cli-installer then stops.Thanks for your answer john

[golden45]

Your right I could try a dedicated graphics card.I experimented with mx 16 to show what you can do with such a great distro as mx 16 using my old system and applying packages from other systems.I can boot from 17b3 dvd but it goes to cli-installer then stops.Thanks for your answer john

I have a graphics card I can install and try.

[dolphin_oracle]

Your right I could try a dedicated graphics card.I experimented with mx 16 to show what you can do with such a great distro as mx 16 using my old system and applying packages from other systems.I can boot from 17b3 dvd but it goes to cli-installer then stops.Thanks for your answer john

I have a graphics card I can install and try.

with 17, you may want to try the failsafe graphics options. these should be visible on the RC release, coming up very soon (they are missing on b3).